[ckan-dev] Global Resource Identifier: is it possible?

Tue Apr 7 11:33:27 UTC 2015

aĺ the IDs in CKAN are UUID
On Apr 7, 2015 1:06 PM, "Alessandro Portosa" <alessandro.portosa at eng.it>
wrote:

> Hello, I have a question on how the resource (or even the dataset) ID is
> generated.
> Context: I have integrated CKAN inside an analysis tool, where resources
> medata can be saved locally.
> The tool should not be tied to a specific CKAN instance, but the user can
> change the target CKAN url (datahub.io, data.gov, and so on). My problem
> is: I would like to globally identify resources and dataset, but I'm not
> sure how the ID is built. Can anyone give me explanation about that? It is
> really important for us, because metadata are saved in our DB using CKAN
> resource ID as primary key and I need to be sure that there will be no
> conflict if using different CKAN instances.
>
> Alessandro.
>
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