Fwd: [ok-scotland] Starting a "Scotlands Data" group in CKAN

[Jo Walsh]

Guessing there is overlap here and should have sent a headsup for the catalogues meeting that just ended too, sounded quite buzzy ...

When should the next SWIG meetup happen, is it our turn in Edinburgh?

phone: +441316502973

Jo Walsh <meta...@gmail.com> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Jonathan Gray" <jonath...@okfn.org>
Date: 4 May 2011 14:40
Subject: [ok-scotland] Starting a "Scotlands Data" group in CKAN
To: "CKAN discuss" <ckan-d...@lists.okfn.org>

This morning at the Data Catalogues meeting in Edinburgh [1] I spoke
to Peter Winstanley (in cc) who works at the Scottish government.

He showed me Scotland's Data [2], a small and relatively new
initiative which includes a preliminary list of key Scottish datasets
and other information assets [3].

We spoke about migrating the list of datasets to CKAN in the first
instance - probably as a group on CKAN.net. Then we could add other
details - e.g. surveying terms of use / licensing, etc.

Does anyone fancy helping with this?

Two options:

 1. Import via the import script. There are around 50 records. Worth
it for this number of items? (David: what do you think?)
 2. Importing each item by hand, coordinated via a Google Doc, where
we add links to CKAN packages as we create them. (Lucy could help with
this if it is a desirable option?)

Any thoughts?

All the best,

Jonathan

[1] http://lod2.okfn.org/2011/04/17/workshop-on-data-catalogue-interoperability-3-4th-may-edinburgh/
[2] https://sites.google.com/site/scotlandsdata/
[3] https://sites.google.com/site/scotlandsdata/dataandvocabularies

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[Paola Di Maio]

Jo

thanks for picking up on this

this group has been quiet!

yes the next meetup if we follow the starting order should be in Edin approx this spring/summer, and someone should take the lead in organizing it, I remember last year  around this time you and Will mentioned you may be interested in doing something

If I remember correctly, a few datasets were rdfized in Glasgow, but as a clueless user I am still not sure what that means for me, what was done and how, and how can I  make use that info etc.Thats where I am personally interested to take this effort, which could apply to catalogues as well as to other psi in Scotland

Anyone else interested in doing the next meetup could liaise with you to set up an agenda, 

Let us know what you have in mind.....

cheers

P.

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[BillRoberts]

Hi Jo,

Yes we're due a SWIG meeting in Edinburgh some time soon. I was going
to volunteer to organise it, but would welcome any help or
suggestions.

Cheers

Bill

> [1]http://lod2.okfn.org/2011/04/17/workshop-on-data-catalogue-interopera...

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[Ewan Klein]

Bill,

I'm happy to try to arrange space in the Informatics Forum if we can
agree on a suitable date, and to work with you in organising it. First
half of June, maybe?

Regards,

Ewan

[Ewan Klein]

On 6 May 2011, at 10:00, BillRoberts wrote:

> Hi Jo,
>
> Yes we're due a SWIG meeting in Edinburgh some time soon. I was going
> to volunteer to organise it, but would welcome any help or
> suggestions.

I'm happy to try to arrange space in the Informatics Forum if we can agree on a suitable date, and to work with Bill in organising it. First half of June, maybe?

Regards,

Ewan

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[Jo Walsh]

Sounds great, would like to present something short about our "linked data focus on open scholarship" project at EDINA - or better, persuade a colleague to do it...

phone: +441316502973

Ewan Klein <ewan....@gmail.com> wrote:

Bill, I'm happy to try to arrange space in the Informatics Forum if we can agree on a suitable date, and to work with you in organising it. First half of June, maybe? Regards, Ewan On May 6, 10:00 am, BillRoberts <bill.robe...@planet.nl> wrote: > Hi Jo, > > Yes we're due a SWIG meeting in Edinburgh some time soon.  I was going > to volunteer to organise it, but would welcome any help or > suggestions. > > Cheers > > Bill > > On May 4, 11:15 pm, Jo Walsh <jo.wa...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > Guessing there is overlap here and should have sent a headsup for the catalogues meeting that just ended too, sounded quite buzzy ... > > > When should the next SWIG meetup happen, is it our turn in Edinburgh? > > > phone: +441316502973 > > > Jo Walsh <metaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: "Jonathan Gray" <jonathan.g...@okfn.org> > > Date: 4 May 2011 14:40 > > Subject: [ok-scotland] Starting a "Scotlands Data" group in CKAN > > To: "CKAN discuss" <ckan-disc...@lists.okfn.org> > > > This morning at the Data Catalogues meeting in Edinburgh [1] I spoke > > to Peter Winstanley (in cc) who works at the Scottish government. > > > He showed me Scotland's Data [2], a small and relatively new > > initiative which includes a preliminary list of key Scottish datasets > > and other information assets [3]. > > > We spoke about migrating the list of datasets to CKAN in the first > > instance - probably as a group on CKAN.net. Then we could add other > > details - e.g. surveying terms of use / licensing, etc. > > > Does anyone fancy helping with this? > > > Two options: > > >  1. Import via the import script. There are around 50 records. Worth > > it for this number of items? (David: what do you think?) > >  2. Importing each item by hand, coordinated via a Google Doc, where > > we add links to CKAN packages as we create them. (Lucy could help with > > this if it is a desirable option?) > > > Any thoughts? > > > All the best, > > > Jonathan > > > [1]http://lod2.okfn.org/2011/04/17/workshop-on-data-catalogue-interopera... > > [2]https://sites.google.com/site/scotlandsdata/ > > [3]https://sites.google.com/site/scotlandsdata/dataandvocabularies > > > -- > > Jonathan Gray > > > Community Coordinator > > The Open Knowledge Foundationhttp://blog.okfn.org > > >http://twitter.com/jwyghttp://identi.ca/jwyg > > >

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[Pan, Dr Jeff Z.]

Dear all,

We are happy to announce OWL-DBC [1,2], a set of JAVA APIs that connects the TrOWL ontology reasoning system with the native inference capability in Oracle Spatial and Graph, an option for Oracle Database. The RDF Semantic Graph feature of Oracle Spatial and Graph provides comprehensive RDF graph data management, SPARQL querying and persisted inferencing in Oracle Database. OWL-DBC allows TrOWL to interoperate with Oracle Spatial and Graph for specialised and more expressive reasoning beyond RDFS, OWL 2 RL and EL profiles, and user-defined rules supported by Oracle Spatial and Graph.

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Best wishes,

Jeff

[1] Official Web site of OWL-DBC: http://trowl.eu/owl-dbc/

[2] OWL-DBC announcement at Oracle OTN: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=269

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