Ckan/film

= Short film about CKAN =

Brief
Short film explaining CKAN project and long term vision for an ecosystem of open data.

Important points to include

 * It's a registry of data/knowledge
 * Community driven
 * It's like apt-get
 * Read/write via API - lots of possibilities for automation and integration
 * Versioning
 * Decentralisation (registry/storage)

Main story
Intro:


 * CKAN - Home screen - sum it up in a simple paragraph "CKAN is a website where open data is listed. There's plenty of useful data being openly released by governments, scientists or even collected by the public, and CKAN helps people share that data better and drives use of it."
 * Examples of the uses of data - a fancy graphic, something that made the news, an example of linking data
 * CKAN - Read package (simple example) - give some examples of the sort of topics the data is about
 * Diagram of the CKAN system "CKAN is not just a website to be read. There's no-one official making sure things get listed - it's a community effort, so anyone can add data they find that is open, just like with Wikipedia. CKAN makes it dead easy to download the data it lists using command-line tools. Also CKAN is very open with its listings - these can be accessed via a RESTful API.

The detail:


 * CKAN - Read package - talk through the key fields and why a user might be interested in them
 * CKAN - Explore a similar package using a tag link
 * CKAN - List of the groups - gives flavour of sort of data in CKAN already
 * CKAN - Search packages Google-style
 * CKAN - Edit a package
 * CKAN - Browse history of a package
 * CKAN - Download dataset with datapkg
 * CKAN - Use of API - show list of examples in python/perl/php
 * Some stats about how popular CKAN is (or maybe not, this could go out of date quickly)
 * Encouragement to the listener to take a browse, and add any useful datasets they know of, not yet listed

Other ideas to consider

 * Diagrams
 * Photographs (visual metaphors...)
 * Screencasts