Integration with Data.gov

[mheadd]

It appears that the stewards of Data.gov have set up ways for city data portals to integrate and have their data sets listed in the Cities community.

http://project-open-data.github.io/catalog/

In essence, integration involves generating a compliant data.json that lives at the root URL of participating sites. It would be awesome if there was a way to generate a data.json file for ODC sites.

[tomkralidis]

@mheadd FYI ODC is built with pycsw for CSW search/discovery/federation. It might be easier to put this functionality in pycsw, which ODC then leverages as a result. This would then make both ODC and non-ODC pycsw deployments data.gov friendly, encouraging even more integration.

Thoughts?

cc @jj0hns0n FYI

[andrewbt]

What a coincidence! I just met and spoke to @JeanneHolm from Data.gov this evening about these very plans of theirs.

[mheadd]

@andrewbt - I've spoken with @JeanneHolm about this in the past in general terms. Not sure there was ever a specific document before now that listed exactly how to do this.

@tomkralidis I'm not a Python dude, so I'll defer to you (and others) on your suggested approach. I just think this would make the ODC platform much more powerful, allowing users to integrate with the largest data repository on the country. Let's do this!

[JeanneHolm]

There are a few options and open to what works best. Cities connect to http://Cities.Data.gov via federation, JSON, technologies like CKAN, Socrata or Junar, or even CSV files. How can we make it work with ODC too? Agreed on "let's do this!".

[waldoj]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has created a data.json plugin for CKAN, which they provide on their GitHub repository. I mention that because portions of that program might be useful to provide similar functionality within ODC.

[mheadd]

Agreed. It would be great to see a similar plug in for ODC. Something that generates a compliant data.json file.

@JeanneHolm - if such a plugin is built, and used by ODC site operators, what is the process for getting integrated with Data.gov? I assume the URL to the new data.json file needs to be added somewhere. Is there a process or point of contact for this?

[JeanneHolm]

We are working on expanding the options for cities to make their data accessible through Cities.Data.gov with the migration to our new interface (see http://Next.Data.gov). We could embed the option for ODC (and the others) prominently on the new site, but we could work on the plug-in now and integrate OpenPhilly today.

[tomkralidis]

FYI a first pass is now implemented in master (2c9e533).

[waldoj]

:1

[waldoj]

Huh, apparently GitHub's mobile site doesn't parse emoji. :-/ Anyhow, yay!

[andrewbt]

That's cool! Thanks Tom!

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Waldo Jaquith notifications@github.comwrote:

Huh, apparently GitHub's mobile site doesn't parse emoji. :-/ Anyhow, yay!

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