[ckan-dev] created resources in dataset - can't access the dataset anymore?

Ian Ward ian at excess.org
Tue Jan 28 16:16:34 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Philip Cross <phil.cross at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> I found this thread on the archive from Jan 2013. Has any further thought
> been given to dealing with datasets with large number of resources? As with
> the original correspondent, we have a couple of datasets now with over 2000
> resources each. These happen to be data on samples taken from prehistoric
> potsherds but I can think of other research projects that would have large
> numbers of resources in a single dataset. Pagination would seem to be
> necessary to deal with this.
>
> The other issue is that the resources for this dataset are originally held
> in a set of hierarchical folders but have had to be reduced to a flat set to
> fit with the ckan model. It would be nice if there was some way of
> preserving the structure of the resources in a dataset.

Would splitting this dataset into a few datasets in a common group
work in your situation? What was the original hierarchy?

Ian



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