[ckan-dev] CKAN Extension Examples

Wed Apr 18 12:02:14 UTC 2012

On 18 April 2012 11:42, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 18 April 2012 11:35, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
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>> > Any examples of these extensions that we can show on this page?
>> > http://ckan.org/features/extend/
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>> 1. Admin dashboard extension.
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>> I don't what this is. Anyone?

This was merged into core in v1.6 (Where

>> 2.Google Analytics extension.
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>> The code is here:
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>> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-googleanalytics

I thought we have blogged about this in the past but may be wrong.
Major upgrade of it about to be released (and parts of it have been
merged to core).

>> and apparently it's installed on thedatahub:
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> this has been updated to show counts which needs a few more tweaks to
> integrate with the package_dict stuff before release into the wild
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>> http://thedatahub.org/analytics/dataset/top
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>> 3. QA Extension
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>> This extension provides the 'five stars of opennness' stars next to
>> datasets (the number of stars for a dataset is calculated based on the
>> openness of its resources). You can see it next to Quality on dataset
>> pages like this one:
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>> http://thedatahub.org/dataset/data-open-ac-uk/resource/61dda986-a6b0-45cb-87f5-29a7cec785dc
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>> It also gives you a Quality Assurance dashboard for seeing overviews of
>> dataset openness ratings and of broken links:
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>> http://thedatahub.org/qa
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>> More info here:
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>> http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/
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>> and here:
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>> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-qa

There's also the existing blog post :-)

http://ckan.org/2012/01/09/qa-on-thedatahub/

>> 4. Data preview and visualisations

This is no longer an extension but has been merged to core since v1.6.
It should not be in extensions stuff.

>> You can see these under Preview if you visit the page for a resource
>> (not the page for a dataset, datasets contain resources, so you have to
>> go to a dataset's page and then click-through to one if its resources),
>> e.g.
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>> http://thedatahub.org/dataset/gold-prices/resource/b9aae52b-b082-4159-b46f-7bb9c158d013
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>> Although I'm currently getting an error: Request Error: Backend did not
>> respond after 5 seconds.

Aside: There was a kernel issue on the data api server earlier today
that is now fixed.

Rufus