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

Fri Jan 31 12:28:34 UTC 2014

> I don't think there is any documentation on their use.

There is some very ancient documentation on the wiki, which I'm sure
could do with some love and attention:

https://github.com/ckan/ckan/wiki/Dataset-relationships

also tantalisingly suggesting where some info used to be in the docs.

Mark

On 31/01/2014, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
> Sorry, I should have said "package relationship" which is different
> than the related items. It's something you'll have to dig into the
> code to find out about, I don't think there is any documentation on
> their use.
>
> There are relationships_as_object and relationships_as_subject fields
> in the package schema available through the API. The model itself is
> in ckan/model/package_relationship.py
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Aaron McGlinchy
> <McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:
>> Is "related packages" different to "related items"?
>>
>> Related items seems to be open to any user to add to/delete... so maybe
>> not as safe as storing within datasets which use the authorisation rules?
>> If is related items then I wonder if would be better to have the main
>> dataset with the DOI as  an index which contained resources that were
>> links (with description) to other datasets in CKAN which were the
>> components, each of them containing a chunk of the resources.  Say you
>> decide each sub dataset can managemebly contain 500 resources, each time
>> you get to 500 you create a new dataset and start adding the new resources
>> to it and at same time create an additional resource in the 'index'
>> dataset that contains the link  to the new 'sub' dataset?
>>
>> If related packages is something again, is there a section in the
>> documentation on it - sounds a useful feature.  I searched for related
>> packages but didn't come back with anything obvious.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Aaron
>>
>>>
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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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