[ckan-dev] what constitutes a broken link?

[David Read]

John,

We store the reason for the score, don't we? (We certainly did in
earlier incarnations of this.) Can that be exposed along with the
score?

David

On 18 January 2012 09:01, John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Ton,
>
> Currently, a link will be labelled as 'broken' by the QA extension if
> it has a computed openness score of 0. Apart from the url not being
> valid or available, this can also happen if the server hosting it does
> not accept a HEAD request or we can not determine the format of the
> resource. We should probably make this information more granular
> however.
>
> For more details on the process see http://wiki.ckan.org/Data_Quality
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On 18 January 2012 08:46, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> had a look at the QA module that went live on the datahub, and checked for
>> possible broken links concerning the Netherlands.
>> It finds 2 broken resource links
>> at http://thedatahub.org/qa/dataset/broken_resource_links
>>
>> http://www.dbnl.org/titels/
>> https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1E5Mtm5cFLROykkxImXHAdILQLzzH1yavN2XU97I&hl=en_US
>>
>> although both links work just fine.
>>
>> What exactly is being tested when the QA thingie checks for broken links?
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Ton
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