[ckan-dev] Recline / Drupal Integration

[Aaron Couch]

Great. We have a lot of work to do on our end. I'll keep you posted as we
make progress.


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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
>
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