[ckan-dev] CKAN extensions

Mon Oct 21 09:28:03 UTC 2013

Hi Aaron,

The link to the wiki on that docs page is out-of-date - there is a
list of extensions on the wiki here, including some from external
developers:

https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/List-of-extensions

Mark

On 21/10/2013, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> The datastorer page explains a little more about extension:
> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-datastorer
>
> As Ryan mentioned, searching on http://github.com/okfn for "ckanext-" lists
> pretty much all the CKAN extensions that have been worked on by the core
> team at OKF.
>
> By repo_info you probably mean the ckanext-repo[1] extension. It was
> written for the master and beta CKAN instances that we have for testing.
> This plugin shows the last commit hash, title of the commit, and URL to
> GitHub for the commit.  wms_preview is part of the spatial extension[2] and
> is used for previewing resources in the wms[3] format.
>
> I hope these answer your questions.
>
> [1] https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-repo
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Map_Service
> [3]
> http://docs.ckan.org/projects/ckanext-spatial/en/latest/previews.html#wms-preview
>
>
>
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> On 18 October 2013 01:57, Aaron McGlinchy
> <McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz
>> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm trying to find out a bit more about some of the ckan extensions.
>> For some of them I can't find much information.
>>
>> This page http://docs.ckan.org/en/master/extensions.html  list some, but
>> not all.  It also has a link to "the official extension listing on the
>> CKAN
>> wiki" (at http://wiki.ckan.net/List_of_Extensions) - but that link only
>> returns me a "create new page"
>>
>> Specifically I was wondering about the difference/relationship between
>> "datastore" and "datastorer", and information about  "repo_info" and
>> "wms_preview" and what they do?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Aaron
>> PS Sorry for cross post to the 'discuss' list
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