[ckan-dev] Metadata representation within CKAN

[Antoine Logean]

Am 26.09.2011 20:43, schrieb Rufus Pollock:
> 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
Very nice. I will show the result.
Thanks a lot.

Antoine