It's been awhile since I've read through Drupal projects...but how much of this is usuable, extendable modules and how much of it is "Create a database and run the Drupal init script on it"?
I'm really excited about the possibilities of this. The exact implementation might have it's various flaws but it's an exciting move in the right direction.
It should be noted that the software running Data.gov itself has not been made open source. This is a project of the American and Indian governments to produce an open-source version of Data.gov to be shared with other governments.
Here's an open-source government data catalog originally made for the City of Philadelphia, built on Django:
Yep. They open sourced the equivalent of their marketing site, not an actual data platform. Very disappointing. As another poster mentioned, CKAN is open source, and does include the data hosting platform (based on elasticsearch). Max Ogden has also published two projects that seem relevant: datacouch and (I think) the pdx API for Portland, which are both couchdb based. All three are worth checking out.
If the data is available for download (preferably via ftp) what needs to be "open source"?
Personally I do not care what software they use to run the site so long as the data is available for download in a open format like CSV. Compare this with offering the data in little bits via some silly JSON API or offering it in some format that requires some addtional closed source software to process.
To me, the data is what is important. What software they choose to use is not important, as long as the data is easily accesible (ftp is my preference). What's important is that I can use whatever software I want to process the data.
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Here's an open-source government data catalog originally made for the City of Philadelphia, built on Django:
http://civiccommons.org/apps/open-data-catalog
If the data is available for download (preferably via ftp) what needs to be "open source"?
Personally I do not care what software they use to run the site so long as the data is available for download in a open format like CSV. Compare this with offering the data in little bits via some silly JSON API or offering it in some format that requires some addtional closed source software to process.
To me, the data is what is important. What software they choose to use is not important, as long as the data is easily accesible (ftp is my preference). What's important is that I can use whatever software I want to process the data.
http://www.opengovplatform.org/
Another solution is CKAN, maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation, which actually does run data.gov.uk
http://ckan.org/
http://data.gov.uk/project#q6
It is licensed under GPL, though (inherited from Drupal):
https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform/blob/mast...
/if you mean 'yikes, it's Drupal at all', yes.
At the moment we have:
- USA
data.gov [linked by ahi]
- City of Philadelphia
http://opendataphilly.org/ [linked by luigi]
- Spain
https://datospublicos.jottit.com/ [spanish link, sources not very parsing friendly]
Which else do you know?
New South Wales - http://data.nsw.gov.au/
- Wiki of Open Data Day: http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Data
- Comunity section of data.gov: http://www.data.gov/community
http://datacatalogs.org/