[ckan-dev] [ckan-discuss] CKAN packages containing packages query

Fri Jul 15 18:54:00 UTC 2011

Hi all,

Just to point out, this is something we are actively considering. We 
need complete activity notifications federated amongst CKAN nodes. See 
the CKAN vision post and the roadmap Ira sent.

James

On 15/07/11 17:55, David Read wrote:
> 2011/7/15 Adrià Mercader<amercadero at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/7/15 David Read<david.read at okfn.org>:
>>> On 15 July 2011 07:32, Jo Walsh<jo.walsh at ed.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>> This would be useful first step for Edinburgh, but as far as the
>>> following ideas you outline, such as the two-way bridge CKAN to
>>> DSpace, I'm less sure. The down-side of harvesting (as I understand
>>> it) is that it is one-way, leaving a read-only copy. @Adria is this
>>> correct?
>> The first part is correct, harvesting is one-way process, but right
>> now, there is nothing that prevents the created package on the
>> "harvesting" instance from being edited, so it's not read-only.
> Thanks for clearing it up. This is something we should consider when
> harvesting starts to be rolled out to publicly editable sites, because
> the next time the original package is updated, the harvested copy will
> be replaced, losing any edits.
>
> David
>
>>
>> Adrià
>>
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