[ckan-dev] "Data Package" specification page

[Rufus Pollock]

Just to follow this up:

Matthew I spoke in person about this and updated the Data Package with
the results:

<http://wiki.ckan.net/Data_Package>

We're now very close to something Matthew and I can work on
implementing into datapkg!

Rufus

On 6 July 2011 16:24, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi Matthew (and all others interested!),
>>
>> Further to our earlier conversations I've done some work to extract
>> and consolidate the "implicit" spec and process about 'data packages'
>> in the datapkg tool documentation into a separate standalone
>> specification:
>>
>> <http://wiki.ckan.net/Data_Package>
>>
>> Please dive in and/or respond to refine and improve this :-)
>>
>> @Richard: wondering how we can integrate this with dcat (also
>> wondering if a dcat in json would be possible :-) )
>>
>> It seems obvious to me (now) that this spec should be separate from
>> implementation so that it can be implemented in many different places.
>> At the same time I think we need to focus on a couple of specific use
>> cases to keep things "real".
>
> Sorry, to keep posting at partial cross-purposes, but here are my
> latest (month-old!) thoughts when considering data packages.  I see
> good things in your Data_Package document too - including versioning.
> I think Data_Package still lacks the ability to support development
> versions (what I'm trying to cover with revision ids).   I wasn't sure
> how to handle our desire for system and user indices (I call these
> prundle discovery sources) for data.
>
> https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/blob/master/doc/source/devel/data_pkg_discuss.rst
> https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/blob/master/doc/source/devel/data_pkg_uses.rst
>
> See you,
>
> Matthew
>



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