[ckan-dev] pycsw integration

Tue Jan 8 20:58:14 UTC 2013

Hi Florian,

thank you for commenting on the UI. I´ll try and give a brief overview  
of the integration which might be close to your notion of a facade.

The cms is extended through a mvc style extension which is based on  
extbase (a framework backport of flow3.org).
The model is only concerned with users and their groups, as the whole  
model part is abstracted to CKAN. The Controller makes heavy use of a  
Service, which is basically a CKAN Remote Procedure Call Client  
utilizing the lovely CKAN Action API which is still in beta state for  
v.1.8 but works as expected.

The view part is pure Javascript, also following the MVC pattern  
(which allows for routing e.g.) utilizing the superheroic (that´s what  
Google advertises their framework with, and so far, I share their  
opinion on that) AngularJS Framework.

I´m about half way through my diploma thesis and plan to finish it  
until the end of march. By then I want to commit the Typo3 extension  
to a public repo like github.

Kind regards,
Daniel

>> ( http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de/data/ )
> Looks nice!
>
> I would like to know more about about this single-page-app integration
> of yours. The usual two patterns to integrate ckan with a cms are
> - facading like we do for the German open data portal
>   (http://open-data.fokus.fraunhofer.de/?p=1154) which is a lot of work
> in some places.
> - side-by-side theme-mimiquing as in data.gov.uk (the current
> OKFN-Recommendation) which saves a lot of trouble but is some what,
> well, innovative.
>
> So this sounds like a third way?
>
> Best regards,
>
> FLO
>
> On 03.01.13 09:15, Daniel Kürner wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am writing my diploma thesis on the metadata management of a german
>> research project that uses ckan as a basis for storing geo-related
>> datasets. I did build a single page app integrated into the TYPO3 CMS
>> using angularjs and the excellent CKAN action API.
>> ( http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de/data/ )
>> We aim to make the datasets available through a 2.0.2 capable csw server
>> for interoperability reasons.
>>
>> From this list I gather that there is an ongoing integration of pycsw
>> into ckan. I have a few questions regarding the integration:
>>
>> 1. Is pycsw integrated as an extension through the plugin Interfaces or
>> within the ckan core ?
>> 2. How far is the integration process?
>> 3. Are there ways of contributing to the integration process ( I
>> searched the okfn/ckan and okfn/ckanext-spatial github sources including
>> the different branches but could not find an entry point for this)
>>
>> p.s. A happy new year to all of you
>>
>> Regards,
>> daniel
>>
>>
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