[ckan-dev] Harvesting of organizations

Thu Aug 15 09:27:34 UTC 2013

>
> the underlying question, should a typo in a name cause a new org to be
> created?

I was planning to implement this feature similar to the remote_groups,
where you have 2 options: "only_local" and "create".
The first one only imports organizations that are already present on the
instance, where the latter also creates new ones.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Dave Caraway <dave at fogmine.com> wrote:

> i'm really interested in this capability. i would say with regard to
> creating organizations automatically, might want to make it optional. the
> underlying question, should a typo in a name cause a new org to be created?
>
>
>
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Stefan Oderbolz <stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi there,
>
> I'm planning to implement the harvesting of organizations in the
> ckanext-harvest extension. As the harvesting of groups (using the
> remote_groups config option) is already implemented, I guess this shouldn't
> be that hard.
>
> In the current code all I found was this:
>
> # Ignore remote orgs for the time being
> package_dict.pop('owner_org', None)
>
> Are there already thoughts about this topic? Currently I'm planning to
> just create the organizations that are not yet there and assign all
> datasets to their corresponding owner organization (very similar to the
> implementation of the remote_groups). The purpose is not to copy
> users/permissions etc. but to simply allow all data owners to see their
> datasets at a glance on the central instance and provide the functionality
> to filter datasets of an organization.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards Stefan
>
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