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Seeing the tweet:

@DefraGovUK: wild bird population National Stats out today http://bit.ly/g7No0I [via @jennybee]

earlier today, I wondered whether it would make sense:

1) to have an area of getTheData.org where publishers of data could make publication announcements about new data sets they had released?

A nice to have would then be:

2) for the system to make a recommendation to the person submitting the announcement about related questions, that they might then answer?

Noting the rather nice 'possibly related data sets on CKAN' widget on getTheData, I also wonder whether:

3) there might an opportunity for a reciprocal widget on CKAN that alerts package owners/maintainers to questions on getTheData that the package might be related to, alerting the owner to the possibility of promoting their package via an answer on getTheData?

tony

submitted 20 Jan '11, 13:43

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edited 20 Jan '11, 13:44


All of these are great ideas Tony.

I wonder if item (1) might fit better into http://ckan.net -- then item (2) might follow from (3).

Item (3) would be a nice complement to the 'Related Datasets' in GetTheData (in fact, I'd originally thought about something like GetTheData as a way to provide a 'discussion' area for CKAN datasets!).

Shall we try working in on item (3) first?

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ScraperWiki does something similar on their homepage

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