[ckan-dev] tag vocabularies usage

Sean Hammond sean.hammond at okfn.org
Mon Aug 26 10:02:27 UTC 2013


> is there a way to assign an ID (more specifically a URI), along with the
> name, to vocabularies and tags ? The API does not seem to allow that.
> 
> That would allow the use of existing taxonomies, which usually have
> URI-identified terms, like in SKOS, OWL, ...

I don't think this is possible. You might be able to do something in an
extension where you use the URI as the vocabulary and tag names, and
then transform these into user-friendly display names before showing
them to the user.




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