[ckan-dev] adding a feature: comment on data

Fri Nov 22 20:47:47 UTC 2013

Hey,

Many thanks for the feedback and answers.

I believe a general comment on the dataset will be useful but i was looking
for comments on specific cells which will be super interesting after
publishing the data since it allows basic interactions like looking for
feedback, flagging some wrong data or collaborating on it to verify it etc.

I will be looking for some open source commenting libraries - will let you
know if anything interesting.

As for funding this - I was simply browsing some data and had the idea to
do this, so thought i'd ask.

I can try and see if someone is using ckan and wants this implemented. what
is the estimated budget we should look for?

Thanks :)

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1. Regarding Mireille's original answer, I guess that the
> implementation should be done at the Recline level, which is the
> library powering the grid view, but you'll still need a way of storing
> the comments somewhere in CKAN probably.
>
> 2. Regarding the Disqus hate, count me in, but as others have said we
> really don't want to maintain our own commenting system. What I think
> would be the best option is writing an extension that integrated with
> a tool like Isso [2] which AFAICT is self-hosted, written in python
> and has Disqus import. Anyone interested in having a go?
>
> Adrià
>
> [1] https://github.com/okfn/recline
> [2] http://posativ.org/isso/
>
> On 21 November 2013 10:37, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> > Agreed about Disqus. But Mireille was asking about commenting on
> > specific data cells (presumably when the datastore is enabled). I can
> > see the use of this but it would surely be a custom feature rather
> > than integrating a standard comment system.
> >
> > Mireille: were you offering to implement this feature and looking for
> > guidance? If so, great! The OKF's core dev team is unlikely to
> > implement such a thing unless a client comes along who wants to pay
> > for the development.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On 21/11/2013, Sander van der Waal <sander.vanderwaal at okfn.org> wrote:
> >> On 21 November 2013 07:39, Ralf <user66 at arcor.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Mireille,
> >>>
> >>> there is an extension available for integrating comments hosted by
> >>> Disqus,
> >>> see https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-disqus. It works pretty well.
> >>>
> >>> However, I would appreciate if CKAN would have an built-in comments
> >>> systems that runs on the CKAN server and stores all the data in its own
> >>> database. Disqus comments are IMHO critical in terms of privacy and
> data
> >>> protection and are not really "Open Data" like. But as long as their is
> >>> no
> >>> alternative, we need to live with it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I fully agree that it would be good if CKAN could support other
> commenting
> >> systems which allow people to keep control over their data. I don't
> really
> >> like Disqus for the same reasons. But I think ideally we support the
> >> integration of a good existing commenting system rather than building
> one
> >> ourselves.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of a good commenting system that allows people to keep
> the
> >> data on their own servers and doesn't force them to sign up with an
> >> external system?
> >>
> >> Sander
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Ralf
> >>>
> >>> Zitat von Mireille Raad <mir.mir at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  Hey,
> >>>>
> >>>> I was wondering if you would be interested in adding a feature to ckan
> >>>> that
> >>>> would allow users to comment on the data by clicking on a specific
> cell
> >>>> and
> >>>> adding up their comment.
> >>>>
> >>>> It might be useful for people who publish their data up for review and
> >>>> to
> >>>> open up the possibility to engage more with data.
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers :)
> >>>>
> >>>
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