1. http://opendata.admin.ch/de/dataset/je-d-17-02-01-01 lacks important structured metadata:

• Date range, which is only in the description.
• Geographical information (“Switzerland”), as this is assumed to be implicit.
• Multi-language metadata.
• Keywords like the names of the parties mentioned in the data.

2. Open data is kept in disconnected portals run by individual organizations. Potential users may not be aware of all the relevant portals.

Create a global open data search portal that can forward queries to individual instances and do metadata search by:

* Keyword * Geography * Timespan * Data Format * Licence * Category

A simple implementation of this would be a site that allows querying multiple CKAN instances. From this point, additional major open data portal types could be targeted. One possible backend for this might be pazpar2.

Metadata on individual open data resources is often not as comprehensive as it could be. The idea is to extract additional metadata from the data itself. Ideally, moving towards being able to query and display individual records in each resource.

This could be for example implemented as a CKAN extension and/or a standalone executable.

• David Stark https://twitter.com/zarkonnen_com
• Rae Knowler https://twitter.com/raeknowler
• Claudia Lienhard

• http://www.re3data.org/
• http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2
• http://www.library.ethz.ch/en/
• http://www.geonames.org/