[ckan-dev] Authors / maintainers

[Ross Jones]

Hi Mark,

Ownership of datasets has come up recently and is pretty key in
some features we want to implement for the datahub and also in
data suite. I think the person who creates the dataset on CKAN
should automatically be set to the owner, unless they choose to 
transfer ownership later on - depending on what we come up with 
for the user stories.

I'd add a ticket anyway, but I think continued discussion will help us 
validate the user stories.

Ross

On 30 May 2012, at 12:46, Mark Wainwright wrote:

> Some thoughts about dataset author/maintainer.
> 
> (1) While it might be useful for some cases, it seems just confusing
> having these two fields by default. I would suggest instead that the
> default be to have one field ('Maintainer'), with an option to add
> extra maintainers (in the same way as one adds extra fields).
> 
> (2) At present there is no maintainer (/author) until you go to the
> 'further information' tab and type it in. I'd like to see a checkbox
> when the data is created called 'I am the maintainer of this dataset',
> which autofills my details in as the main contact (assuming I'm logged
> in).
> 
> (3) If a dataset has no resources the resources list currently says
> '(none)'. Here is a suggested improvement: 'There are no data
> resources here yet. For information about this data, contact the
> dataset maintainer.'
> 
> The idea of (2) and (3) is to make it as easy as possible for someone
> holding some data to make a minimal useful dataset for it. For
> whatever reason, they don't want to put it online at the moment, but
> they can still register the fact that they have it in about a minute
> by creating an empty dataset for it.
> 
> Any thoughts? I can make this a ticket if there aren't howls of protest.
> 
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