The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Earlier this year at OKCon 2011 in Berlin we launched datacatalogs.org to make a comprehensive list of open data catalogs around the world.
We’ve just upgraded it to run on the latest version of CKAN, our open source data hub software, which powers data.gov.uk, the IATI Registry and numerous other data catalogs.
We’ve also just enabled groups, which means that it is possible to create curated lists of data catalogs for different purposes. For example, you can see lists of:
- Data catalogs which are powered by CKAN
- Data catalogs in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK or the US
- Official data catalogs in EU27 member states
If you’re interested in curating lists of data catalogs in your country, or internationally, please sign up to our new data-catalogs mailing list and say hello!
Dr. Jonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, where he is currently writing a book on data worlds. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org and he tweets at @jwyg.
Exceptional efforts have been employed so far. In the future, it would be useful to start monitoring the frequency of data flow in the open data portals. That would offer an extra incentive for the continuation of the provision and updating of datasets in the sites that have been launched already.
Also, monitoring the updating frequency in the various portals would allow you to spot for ‘dead’ national or subnational initiatives….
for instance the Greek open data sites (two last time i checked) tend to suffer severely from absolute lack of data and they get updated rarely with new data information!
monitoring is just an idea i had.
continue the excellent work,
best,
George