Still looking for help/direction getting an Open Data Catalogue online

[Steve Nelson]

Hi group,

It's been a few weeks now since I started looking into Open Data Catalogs - I'm still stumped as to how a small town such as ours can leverage the knowledge here in getting a cloud instance of a data catalog online.

 

I realize this is Code for America - and I'm in Canada, but I would love to know if there are any preconfigured or 'pre installed' cloud based data catalogs available where I can start an Azure or EC2 instance, and just have a catalog ready for populating?

 

Without the knowledge of a DB administrator I'm finding it really difficult to get started (), and just wanted to throw this post up on the board for any others out there struggling with the same....

 

Any links or suggestions on how or where I might find a ready-to-go catalog that I can call my own?  I suppose if we had some dollars available we could just pay for a Socrata site?

 

Sincerely
Steve Nelson

GIS Coordinator

Town of Banff, Alberta, Canada

 

 

[Kevin Curry]

Hi Steve, this isn't a Code for America forum. This is the forum for Azavea's open data product. I've copied our main forum for Brigade to cast a wider net.

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[Robert Cheetham]

Steve,

If Open-Data-Catalog is daunting, in addition to Socrata, you might consider CKAN, developed by Open Knowledge. They have a hosted product as well as also being open source.   http://ckan.org/ 

Best,

Robert

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Steve Nelson <steve....@banff.ca> wrote:

[Jason Lally]

OpenColorado has an existing instance installed on Amazon.

http://data.opencolorado.org

You can grab code including PHP and .NET wrappers for the CKAN API at OC's GitHub account:

https://github.com/opencolorado

Best,
Jason

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[Chase Southard]

Lexington flirted with all of them but settled on CKAN.

Chase

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[Bill Baran]

Hi,

I'm working on setting up ODC for Idaho.

I found the webfactional.com has reasonable hosting (~$8-9/mos US) for python, django, and postgres - the requirements of ODC.

There are many ways to deploy a python web app. Webfactional takes the route where each app has its own apache config and django root and it's run via mod_wsgi.

I've never done anything with django or even python so it's been a bit of a learning curve.

I'm still finalizing my config but can probably provide you with some assistance if you decide to go that route.

Bill Baran

OpenDataIdaho.Org