[ckan-dev] Metadata representation within CKAN

Mon Sep 26 18:43:24 UTC 2011

On 25 September 2011 01:40, Antoine Logean <antoine.logean at innoq.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot Rufus,
>
> Let's dive inside !
>
> I have set up a CKAN instance for the hackathon we will have in
> Switzerland in one week (http://make.opendata.ch).
> I would like to write a simple and funny Javascript visualisation of the
> metadata. Instead of the linear list of packages I would like to have
> some tree representation where I can navigate in the different kinds of
> datasets that are defined in the repository. This is why I need a
> metadata interface.

Got it. In that case what you really want is to read up on the API and
especially the search API:

<http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api.html>
<http://wiki.ckan.org/API>

Rufus