Another Word For It

CKAN – the Data Hub Software

From the website:

We want to make easy for people to find, share and reuse data, be they research scientists or civil servants, data nerds or the average citizen. We aim to provide a platform that’s both simple and powerful and as easy to build on and extend as to use and interact with.

OK, but the core “metadata” is roughly:

• unique name
• title
• url + download url
• author/maintainer info
• license
• notes
• tags
• [extendable with “extra” fields]

I suppose I should not be too critical as it wasn’t that many years ago that just obtaining data in electronic form was difficult and discussions of how to store/manipulate data stores were somewhat theoretical.

I mention it here so if you encounter one of these “data hubs” in the field you won’t be expecting too much.

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