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

[Philip Cross]

Thanks Ian - that sounds an interesting approach. I'll take a look.
bw
Phil

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> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:06:42 -0500
> From: Ian Ward <ian at excess.org>
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> Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] created resources in dataset - can't access
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> Hi Phil,
>
> Have you seen the related packages feature? You could have a dataset
> with the DOI and no resources that is a parent to other datasets that
> each have a smaller number of resources.
>
> You would have to create and update these datasets with the API and
> IIUC just alter your templates to show the relationships.
>
> Ian
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Philip Cross <phil.cross at bristol.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > 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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