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Norwegian data catalogue to be based on CKAN!

October 4, 2010 in Uncategorized

We’re very pleased to see that the Norwegian government will be using our CKAN software, an open-source registry of open data, to build their national data catalogue!

From their announcement:

During the next few months, data.norge.no will be set up as a national data catalog using CKAN, Drupal, and the integration module used by data.gov.uk. By doing this, we hope not only to contribute to this specific software implementation of the concept of a data catalog, but also to do our part in the establishment of a common set of principles on the publication of public sector information in machine readable formats. Copying data.gov.uk is not in any way spectacular, but at this point in the history of public sector information, it is certainly clever.
It looks like they have some interesting ideas for new features in CKAN and we’re looking forward to seeing what they do with the software. In a recent count, CKAN is now being used in over 18 instances around the world! For a full list, see here:

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Related posts:

  1. Launch of Norwegian instance of CKAN! The following guest post is from Olav Anders Øvrebø, Assistant Professor at the University of Bergen, and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation‘s Working Group on EU Open Data. At the government data project at the University of Bergen, we...
  2. Next version of the Linked Open Data cloud based on CKAN! Many of you will be familiar with the now ubiquitous Linked Open Data cloud diagram, maintained by Richard Cyganiak. The diagram illustrates efforts to link together many different data sources, from the CIA World Factbook to DBpedia, a structured database...
  3. Canadian citizen-driven data catalogue datadotgc.ca is powered by CKAN Not so long ago we were in contact with David Eaves, a Canadian public policy analyst and open government data advocate (who advises the Mayor of Vancouver about open data and open government), about starting an catalogue for Canadian open...
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