Session leader Phil Weir from Flax&Teal said he had decided to pitch the session because his company had been working on a project to report on data sets and issues with them. In the course of doing that, he said, potential users of data said their problem was finding it.
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Catalogues and metadata
A small but select band of Open Data Camp 5 participants gathered in the garden room for a final session devoted to the subject of catalogues. And meta-data. Or both.
Session leader Jen Williams explained: “I pitched a session on catalogues because there doesn’t seem to be much interest in them. The discussion [at #ODCamp] is all about datasets, and publishing datasets, and getting people to engage with them.
“It’s not about telling people what we have got. And I would say that publishing a catalogue goes a long way towards doing that.