[ckan-discuss] Adding multiple OpenlyLocal URLs/datasets to CKAN?

Sat Jul 17 13:17:20 BST 2010

I was thinking not of one for each police force, but for the collection of
all police forces e.g. http://OpenlyLocal.com/police_forces (accesible as
XML and JSON too)

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> cc'ing ckan-discuss as this question is of general interest!
>
> On 17 July 2010 12:58, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Someone who I followed just asked on twitter for list of police forces
> > available as data. I pointed him to the OpenlyLocal list, but it occurred
> to
> > me it's not obvious that we have all these datasets (also police
> authorities
> > and local auth pension funds)
> > What do you think about me adding separate entries to CKAN? I'm easy
> either
> > way, and don't want it to appear spammy, but may make it easier for some
> > people.
>
> This is a standard question that has come quite a lot :) (and comes up
> with data.gov.uk too). The simple answer at the moment is that I don't
> think it is worth creating individual datasets/packages for *each*
> police force/pension fund on CKAN.
>
> Rather I'd suggest creating a single dataset/package on CKAN and if
> possible have a single file for download that has all the relevant
> data -- you can always add notes explaining how to get individual data
> items via e.g. the API. (You may also want to add Resource item for
> the api using the api/... format we are standardizing on [1]).
>
> [1]: <http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/doc/package#FormatStrings>
>
> If you don't have a single file for the whole lot but single
> files/urls for given police forces I'd suggest, for the time being,
> having a single Resource item linking to one specific example with a
> description string making this clear. Again you can then explain in
> the notes how to get all of them. This avoids having to create 500
> resources (you can do that if you wish but IMO it is not very useful
> -- much better to have a single example and move towards having a tar
> ball or url for the whole lot).
>
> Rufus
>
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