[ckan-dev] Curated Lists

Tue Jun 11 09:24:01 UTC 2013

Hi Marina,

CKAN Groups were introduced precisely to create curated lists of
groups - including as you say anyone being able to make their own. But
it seems you're thinking of something with a somewhat different
behaviour? Can you say a bit more about your use case?

Best,

Mark

On 07/06/2013, Marina S. Martin <marina at marinamartin.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Are there any existing projects around the idea of making curated lists of
> datasets in CKAN?
>
> The federated model makes using keywords to generate lists a bit of a
> challenge (because you can't tag datasets owned by others), and I'm
> concerned that "groups" would get unwieldy quickly as we have thousands of
> possible lists of datasets. I'm also intrigued by the idea of anyone being
> able to make their own list for any reason (ala Amazon).
>
> Thanks
> Marina
>

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