[ckan-dev] Package Resources Proposal

[William Waites]

* [2011-02-04 11:41:45 +0000] Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> écrit:

]  * DataGroup: an arbitrary group of Resources
] 
] Personally, this seems completely sensible to me. 

I agree.

] Indeed, from where I'm sitting, I don't actually quite understand the
] concept of a package at all; couldn't we just have Resources, Authors,
] Maintainers and Licenses?

Packages would perhaps be better written as "datasets" and
indeed this is what data.gov.uk does. So the resources in a
package should be somehow the same, either different formats
of the same information or different slices in the case of
a large dataset or time series.

It could be argued, perhaps not unproductively, that each
format or slice is in fact a related or derived dataset,
related in some way to the other resources in which case
the concept of package-as-dataset disappears and turns 
into resource-as-dataset.

Cheers,
-w
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