[ckan-dev] what constitutes a broken link?

Wed Jan 18 10:59:07 UTC 2012

David,

Yes, we could do that. A list of the current score reason messages
that we use are on the wiki page that I gave.

Cheers,
John

On 18 January 2012 10:40, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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