Re: [python-uk] Introducing CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation)

2010-12-24 Thread James Gardner
Hi Martin, > sorry - didn't mean to post to the whole list! Well, maybe there are others interested too, but if not I'll stop replying on list as well. > Interesting. I've often thought its such a shame there is no > centralised data catalog in my field of biomedical research. > There is a gre

Re: [python-uk] Introducing CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation)

2010-12-24 Thread Martin Goodson
sorry - didn't mean to post to the whole list! On 24 Dec 2010, at 19:50, Martin Goodson wrote: Interesting. I've often thought its such a shame there is no centralised data catalog in my field of biomedical research. There is a great culture of openness in the community of scientists but all th

Re: [python-uk] Introducing CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation)

2010-12-24 Thread Martin Goodson
Interesting. I've often thought its such a shame there is no centralised data catalog in my field of biomedical research. There is a great culture of openness in the community of scientists but all the data sets are in disparate corners of the web. If I want some data on some particular aspect o

[python-uk] Introducing CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation)

2010-12-24 Thread James Gardner
Hi all, For those of you who haven't heard about the Open Knowledge Foundation we are a not-for-profit promoting open knowledge: that's any kind of information - sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata - that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed [1] and we rely heavily on Python for a lot