[ckan-dev] Tagging visualisations onto datasets

Tue May 29 20:33:03 UTC 2012

Hey, that's not something I've played with yet. It seems to do just the
thing I was talking about... I guess from a UX point of view it was
non-obvious; I didn't realise it could do this until I went in and played
with it. That's all I can say about it really.

Anyway I just wanted to share the the feedback from the discussions as
something you might want to keep in mind. :-)

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Ross Jones <ross.jones at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> We have the Related Item feature at the moment, soon to be renamed, which
> allows you to add details about an app or visualisation you've found.  Is
> that what you mean or are you suggesting a way for users to ask for someone
> else to create a visualisation?
>
> Ross
>
> On 28 May 2012, at 16:27, Tom Rees wrote:
>
> Hello CKAN developers,
> At the end of April I went to TransparencyCamp, and ended up talking about
> CKAN/datahub.io an awful lot. It was (very) frequently compared to
> GitHub, though the comparison is not always a suitable one. Several
> conversations centred around the idea of Pull Requests, which GitHub makes
> a big deal out of but isn't really what DataHub is about. I'd argue that
> people don't really want pull requests -- "hey, i refined your data for
> you" is not a common action among users. But! The much more common use case
> that did fall out of discussions is "hey, i visualised your data for you".
>
> This is the kind of feature CKAN could easily integrate: The ability to
> tag visualisations onto a dataset (er... a "Viz Pull Request? ..Maybe not)
> would indeed have some usefulness, and might be the kind of thing which
> encourages the development of a two-way community rather than a more lofty
> publishing platform. It would also give us an easy-win response when Pull
> Requests are bought up in discussions with prospective users.
>
> File this under "giving people what they need, not what they ask for". Is
> this something you guys have discussed? It came up so often that I thought
> it best to share with you all, anyway.
> Thanks,
> Tom
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