[ckan-dev] Editing harvested resources in CKAN

[Bruce Crevensten]

Hi!  Our group is currently harvesting ISO19139 records from a GeoNetwork
backend.  We then added some additional resources to datasets, but found
they were removed after another harvest.  This makes sense to some degree
-- mirror the authoritative (harvested) source!

We want the best of both worlds: using XML metadata to inform the CKAN
records without doing double data entry, but we also want to add additional
resources to the CKAN records.

We've also considered using a standalone XML editor like 52 North's, but
then there's some questions about whether we could "harvest" from a file in
order to get some of the spatial metadata consumed as though it came from a
harvested resource.

I know we could customize CKAN to modify the harvest process or perhaps
populate some fields from a required-attached-resource XML document, but
wanted to see if anyone had suggestions.  Perhaps we're not using the tool
as intended?

-- 
*Bruce Crevensten*


*Senior Software Engineer*
(SNAP) Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning
www.snap.uaf.edu
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