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

Thu Jan 30 12:47:15 UTC 2014

Hi Ian,

Splitting data across datasets wouldn't be a good solution for us since we
assign each dataset a DOI, which is intended to resolve to the package page
on our CKAN instance.

I should point out that the data is not being uploaded to the CKAN server,
we are harvesting the metadata and pointing from each resource back to our
own data storage. At the moment we are still pointing at the data via a web
interface that allows users to navigate down to the files they wish to
download.

An example is at:
http://data.bris.ac.uk/datasets/13kidnrls4jnl1m806eyfd8h6z/

Best wishes,
Phil

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> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:16:34 -0500
> From: Ian Ward <ian at excess.org>
> To: CKAN Development Discussions <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org>
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> 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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