Meetings/2010-06-13

13 June 2010

http://pad.okfn.org/sldig

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I have tidied up the notes iin the attempt to make them more legible

I promised I would follow up with some thoughts

re OK GOVERNANCE PAGE

My first take is that there should be a link to the board where the board is mentioned, however the executive committee is not mentioned There is no information as to how this board is elected, nor how the executive board is elected/rotated/managed Of critical importance to me, are the decision making processes who makes decisions, following what processes? are all ideas and decision relating to projects shared/discussed/agreed upon by consensus? this information is vital to democratic institutions, afaics

how often does the board meet? to discuss what? where are the minutes? etc etc

furthermore, it occurs to me that perhaps OKS (scotland) could have its own independent board/committee/rules if that makes it easier for us to operate independently from the setup already in place

re. suitability of CKAN as a repository

I think CKAN would be cool to use for this directory of open data projects, however

b. from a technical viewpoint, all we need is to have more metadata available as tags c. check that the RDF output of CKAN is valid and suitable to be queried via SPARQL
 * a) governance of CKAN project would benefit from additional transparency/accountability (see above)

From what I have seen, many of the the keywords/metadata are already there, for example at some page there is a list of countries however this list of countries at this stage does not seem to be metatags, it seems normal to me that the list of country would be metadata? same for existing domain keywords,

that alone, cleaned up a bit and optimised a bit could be enough to start the directory

we also discussed eliciting some keywords/metadata from the respective communities

i think freebase has good metadata sets (check)

TO DO:

discuss with others if this is the right approach to start with

check RDF output is OK sparqlwise

decide if CKAN is the right place to start this registry with

possible more

if something else comes to mind I ll update the etherpad

ping me tomorrow one hr before the call, I ll join if I can, else please share summary points