Publishing Open Data with Cubes¶
Cubes and Slicer were built with Open Data or rather Open Analytical Data in mind.
Read more about Open Data:
- Open Data (Wikipedia)
- Defining Open Data (OKFN)
- What is Open Data (Open Data Handbook)
With Cubes you can have a server that provides raw detailed data (denormalized facts) and grouped and aggregated data (aggregates). It is possible to serve multiple datasets which might share properties (dimensions).
Serving Open Data¶
Just create a public Slicer server. To provide more metadata
add a info.json
file with the following contents:
label
– server’s name or labeldescription
– description of the served datacopyright
– copyright of the data, if anylicense
– data license, such as Creative Commons, Public Domain or othermaintainer
– name of the data maintainer, might be in formatName Surname <namesurname@domain.org>
contributors
- list of contributors (if any)keywords
– list of keywords that describe the datarelated
– list of related or “friendly” Slicer servers with other open datavisualizations
– list of links to prepared visualisations of the server’s data
Create a info.json
file:
{
"description": "Some Open Data",
"license": "Public Domain",
"keywords": ["budget", "financial"],
}
Include info option in the slicer configuration:
[workspace]
info: info.json