[ckan-dev] what constitutes a broken link?

Wed Jan 18 10:40:18 UTC 2012

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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