[ckan-dev] [ckan-discuss] ANN: Semantic CKAN - Revisited

Mon Apr 18 13:56:56 UTC 2011

* [2011-04-18 14:22:29 +0100] David Read <d.t.read at gmail.com> écrit:

] I think an effective mirror should use a combination of occasional
] systematic crawls (as you have now), and frequent update using just
] the changes (use the revision api).

Perhaps... Do we expect modifications to be somehow made in the past,
retroactively?

] I think the traffic will be far lighter than getting the full list
] of packages and polling every one.

Right, once the mirror is already populated it would be better, but
we can do better still. And the point remains that revisions are an
implementation detail of CKAN that clients won't care about and having
to process them needlessly complicates a client's code when the fix
on the server is quite easy.

On the other hand this lets me also see revisions to groups, in
principle, and I am also interested in modelling them...

] > Can i specify a time zone?
] 
] No. There is a ticket for this I'm progressing but it is low priority.
] 
] > If not, what timezone is it taken to be?
] 
] Utc for all timestamps with current versions of ckan. (i need to add
] that to docs and be explicit where time is exposed) It's worth double
] checking for older ones.

This is fine - if UTC is the convention then we don't need time zones.

Cheers,
-w
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