When I first saw the headline I was imagining a mega dataset where all variables that are same across datasets are linked together somehow. (That would have been very relevant for our work at Metastring foundation). Anyhow.
BTW, https://magda.io/ is a federated approach at dataset curation by the same people behind https://data.gov.au/ Akshay On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:27 PM Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:03 PM Saketha Ramanujam < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> This is Saketha Ramanujam an independent researcher from Visakhapatnam. >> I've been a passive member in the discussions that happen in this group. >> Great thanks to those who post immediate and useful responses to all the >> questions over various topics. >> >> >> We all have either individually or as teams have compiled, scraped and >> prepared a lot of datasets which might not be available straight away. >> If somebody else wants to access them or look whether if some data set >> has already been scraped/compiled by someone, it's kind of hard right now. >> They either send an email here or spend a lot of time searching for the >> same. My idea is that we have a collection of datasets displayed/hosted >> using tools like datasette <https://github.com/simonw/datasette>. >> >> Please let me know if this is actually doable possible for us to do >> something as a community. >> > > The problem is not lack of centralization, but lack of discoverability. > > I think the first step is to publish the datasets that you already have. > Datasette is a good tool for that. > The second step is to make it discoverable. Google has a dataset search > service[1] and that is based on schema.org markups[2], which are pretty > easy to include on your web page. > > In addition to that it would probably be a good idea to send a mail this > list when you publish a dataset and it may also be a good idea to keep a > catalog of all the datasets referenced in this mailing list in a github > repo. > > Any thoughts? > > [1]: https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ > [2]: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/1960710 > > Anand > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAC7wXFwrPBMzx-A9Un3_9aSr4uCKZ068QepuWiKFoTyqLZJo4g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAC7wXFwrPBMzx-A9Un3_9aSr4uCKZ068QepuWiKFoTyqLZJo4g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAL%3D48C5tMrMuifjhHsRYBXOiAVdvZXTwHvxLmUDp77PzuHL1OQ%40mail.gmail.com.
