Open Data Catalogues/Guide

= Notes for guide to data catalogues =

1. What is a data catalogue for?


 * supporting data reuse
 * discovery
 * data geeks understand, but how to make it more popular?
 * plugin for search engines
 * place to find the small things (national statistics can be found anyways)

2. Benchmark of existing catalogs
 * Who is behind the catalg (official, community driven, city, national)
 * What are the features frontend?
 * What are the features backend?
 * What technology is used?
 * Is the catalogue organizing "only" metadata or also storing data?
 * What data is stored in the catalogue (only open, also closed datasets, only official or also twitter API)
 * Is there good documentation & technical support?

3. Platform features
 * data versioning
 * interoperability
 * hosting? (storage vs registry)

4. What features are desirable?
 * code examples to use the API
 * possibility to have a conversation around the data sets

Also:
 * Tutorial for different systems?
 * Questions