[ckan-dev] Resource Type and Supporting Documentation

Vitor Baptista vitor at vitorbaptista.com
Tue Mar 26 19:02:34 UTC 2013


Hi Ian,

It seems you're on the right track. If the documentation you're thinking
about adding are "downloadable" files, like a PDF for the data dictionary,
etc., it might be easier to use FileStore (
http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/filestore.html).

Cheers,
Vítor Baptista.

2013/3/14 Ian Ward <ian at excess.org>

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at using dataset resources to link to supporting
> documentation as well as normal files and APIs.  Would it be a good
> idea to store a different value in the 'resource_type' field for
> supporting documentation?
>
> Values I've seen in resource_type are 'file' and 'api'.  I would add
> 'doc' for a resource that links to a supporting document.
>
> Ian
>
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