[ckan-discuss] sudo apt-get install data-pkg

Mon Sep 5 14:13:03 BST 2011

David, Rufus,
Thanks for the info. I'll look into datapkg over the next few days. It might
just do the trick.

Cheers,
Pablo

2011/9/5 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>

> Hi Pablo,
>
> I think this is a really interesting idea -- and in fact a large part
> of the motivation for developing CKAN originally (we wanted to
> supported dataset development, deployment and sharing as efficiently
> as things like debian do for code).
>
> We coined the idea of a 'data package (datapkg)', and here's the
> current page on the wiki:
>
> <http://wiki.ckan.net/Data_Package>
>
> I did originally investigate using apt directly but then sought to
> build on the python install tool as that was likely to be easier to
> develop and more cross platform. The current tool called datapkg works
> well and will get files on and off ckan. See:
>
> <http://packages.python.org/datapkg/>
>
> Source code is here. We are also using datapkg in building a local GUI
> for CKAN which we are calling the DataDeck:
>
> <http://wiki.ckan.net/DataDeck>
>
> Rufus
>
> On 4 September 2011 11:22, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Folks,
> > I am wondering if CKAN could become the standard way to distribute bulk
> open
> > data, beyond its current role as leading metadata catalog for open data
> > sets.
> >
> > I am thinking of a scenario where I'd host my downloads on my server, but
> > would add the metadata to CKAN to point to my files. A ckan-to-apt
> wrapper
> > would then allow me to do something like:
> >
> > sudo add-apt-repository ckan.net/...
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get install dbpedia
> >
> > Using dependency relationships would allow packages to pull each other,
> and
> > also allow software to indicate dependency on data (which is a real world
> > use case for DBpedia Spotlight, for example).
> >
> > This could also increase adoption of CKAN as metadata catalog, as the
> added
> > value for creating an entry for your package increases.
> >
> > Do you guys have already a better solution sketched for this scenario? Is
> > there some major gap that prevents this idea from becoming reality?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Pablo
> >
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