[ckan-dev] Editing harvested resources in CKAN

Thu Dec 18 09:14:22 UTC 2014

Hi Bruce,

what harvester do you use to harvest your GeoNetwork backend? This clearly
sounds like you want to customize the way the data is harvested. Sometimes
this is very easy by just  using an existing harvester, extend it (as in
"create a child class of it") and modify the methods you want to.

What you describe, can definitely be done (harvest some fields, do not
touch others).

- Stefan

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Crevensten <becrevensten at alaska.edu>
wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> --
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