2016/11/15 RCHSS-GIS Meeting

1. CKANCon 2016 & IODC16
2016/11/15 RCHSS-GIS Meeting
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Presenter: Cheng-Jen Lee (Sol)
Email: cjlee AT iis.sinica.edu.tw

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Outline
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CKANCon 2016
– Programme
– Selected topics
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IODC16
– Programme
– Selected topics

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CKANCon 2016
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2016/10/4
– 2nd
CKANCon (1st
: 2015/5/27)
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http://ckan.org/ckancon-2016/ (Slides available)
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Free one day conference for CKAN developers.

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Programme
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CKAN Overview
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Case Studies
– Our topic: “Open Data Web” – A Linked Open Data
Repository Built with CKAN (15”)
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Lightning Talks
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Technical Deepdive/Government Talks
– Roadmap
– Move to Flask web framework

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Selected Topics (1)
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Structured Data Collection with ckanext-
recombinant (Ian Ward)
– Upload and combine similar data from all
organizations.
– Excel template for uploading

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Selected Topics (2)
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CKAN for Research Data Management at
Eawag: A report from the trenches (Harald
von Waldow)
– Custom fields (from JSON by ckanext-scheming)
– Field specific search
– Georeferencing
– Versioning

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Selected Topics (3)
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Integration
– Automatic data publication in CKAN using Kettle
(Juan Carlos Egido Mayordomo)
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Data pre-processing
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Rollback when failed
– How we combined CKAN with WordPress for
opendata.swiss (Stefan Oderbolz)
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Manage datasets, groups, organizations, harvest sources in
WordPress, then sync them to CKAN.

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IODC16
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4th
International Open Data Conference
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2016/10/3-5 (pre-events), 10/6-7 (conf)
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http://opendatacon.org/
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Global goals, local impact
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The essential meeting point for the global
community to debate and study the future
of open data.

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IODC16
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Session videos:
– https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8cKSDSxKSbOn

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Programme
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Data + Geospatial, Agriculture, Education,
Utilities, Transport…
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Regional Talk – Asia, Africa, East Europa,
North America…
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Impact/Action/Sharing Sessions
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Other talks

12. 12After the earthquake, where did the money go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlEQOd9iHw
http://earthquake.opennepal.net/

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The open algorithms (OPAL) project: unleashing the power of
private sector data for public good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj2ULgFD8fk

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16. 16Train the trainers: sharing methodologies for teaching how to use open data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLchC7Bu_zc

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Main Session: Open Data and Platforms
– Jean-Marc Lazard (OpenDataSoft) – OpenDataSoft
– Kevin Merritt (Socrata) – Socrata
– Sebastian Moleski (CKAN Steering Group) – CKAN
– Andrew Hoppin (GovDelivery Inc.'s) – DKAN
– Open Source
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“We opened the API.“ “We opened the front-end part.”
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“Open-sourced server-side app is hard to scale-up.“
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...
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Locked-in is the thing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT0VE1LkNng

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Thank You!