[ckan-dev] Recline / Drupal Integration

[Rufus Pollock]

On 5 September 2012 15:20, Aaron Couch <acinternets at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rufus:
>
> By "conversion" library I assume you mean parsing the uploaded files into a
> datastore? We are going to cross that bridge when we get to it (which will
> be pretty soon hopefully). We were thinking of using a CKAN repo for this
> that would  act as a conversion service. We would pass it the file and it
> would return the URL to the datastore.  We aren't sure how much work it
> would take to make CKAN perform like that.

I think fairly easy and this definitely sounds like a good approachy.

> Alternatively we could create our own service which would probably be
> managed by Drupal (using something like:
> http://drupal.org/project/waiting_queue) but do the actual parsing in
> something other than PHP.
>
> When we talked to David he said you all were thinking of offering a CKAN
> service that would perform a similar task. Was I hearing him correctly and
> are you still planning on offering something like that?

Yes, we are thinking of trying to split this out as a service and a
clear use case like this would definitely be a spur :-)

Rufus