Re: [Semediawiki-user] SMW as "OGD Cockpit"

[Ralf <ral...@kr...>]

Hi Bernhard,

very interesting!

I am currently working in an early stage of setting up a CKAN test 
installation for OGD for a small city in Germany. It's a private "project" for 
now, so no participants from government site or any company.

CKAN really lacks in representing the data like we can do it with Semantic 
Mediawiki and Semantic Result Formats on-the-fly. I was also thinking about 
using SMW for this purpose, but currently we ended in CKAN, since CKAN is 
(once it's installed which is harder than MW) quite easy to use and add 
structured data into it, or just be linking to external data sources. A SMW 
approach is harder to setup, I guess. But nevertheless very promising.

So, I would appreciate if you could report your progress on this list from 
time to time, especially if you have managed to combine CKAN with SMW.

Cheers
Ralf

On Friday 26 April 2013 Krabina Bernhard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we just published a (German) news release [1]. SMW is being showcased on
> http://www.ogdcockpit.eu
> 
> The idea behind it: the cities Bonn, Köln and Linz have Open Government Data
> initiatives, but they lack of tools of setting up internal data cataloguies
> before they will be published on OGD portals. For OGD portals, CKAN [2] is
> the de facto standard, but (as far as I know) it lacks features needed in
> the stage prior to publishing (putting togehter information about potential
> data, discussing their quality, planning release stages, etc.)
> 
> This is where SMW should come in: to support this collaborative effort of
> interactively putting together a data catalogue inside the public
> administrations. Currently the SMW installation at ogdcockpit.eu is not
> finished, there ist just some test data in there yet, but most of the
> functionality will be ready by may 16th, for the OGD conference in Berlin.
> 
> This "proof of concept" is meant to showcase the potential of SMW for
> (German speaking) public administrations. We have a tight project budget,
> so no additional programming will be done, just customzing what is already
> availabe. In order to put this into reality, we would need some way of
> pushing data from SMW to CKAN, but this can be discussed later on.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> [1] http://www.kdz.eu/de/ogdcockpit
> [2] http://www.ckan.org