[ckan-dev] Resource types

Fri May 25 17:43:09 UTC 2012

Toby,

Rufus and Richard Cyganiak worked hard on this and set out the current
datahub guidelines to be mimetype in preference to the well-known file
extension. This discussion would benefit from recalling what the
reasons were.

I won't repeat my recent posts about lowercase vs mixed case, so do
check the logs.

You could also look at the various things we did in DGU with the
indexing, form autocomplete, migrations etc. Having a list of 'good'
formats to suggest, and you could consider producing a list of
standard migrations, like 'test/csv' -> 'CSV' and 'Excel' -> 'XLS' for
example.

I can't see the logic of creating a new field to store the 'unified'
format alongside the 'raw' format as the user typed it. Just change
the original field value - it's pretty obvious that csv, CSV and
text/csv are all the same, so why keep the mixture?

Dave

On 24 May 2012 14:04, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently resource types are a little confused.
>
> csv, CSV, text/csv should all be treated as the same type as far as search
> faceting is concerned for example
>
> It seems to me that we should really have this in the model but I'm not sure
> if we should have a new unified_format field or change the existing formats.
>
> I know there was some discussions on this subject in the past but not sure
> of the conclusion
>
> we need this for the demo-theme branch and I'd be happy to do the work if we
> can agree on how we want to do this.  It seems like the simple approach is
> to make all formats lowercase and ignore the first part of text/csv
> application/zip type formats we might also need to have some custom mappings
> for specific formats
>
> as ever what do people think/ objections etc
>
> Toby
>
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