[ckan-dev] Versionning / history of resources

[Stéphane Guidoin]

Thanks Hotz!

Do you have a repo or some code you have developed for that? Or something
that I could access to see how it behaves?

Stéphane

2015-07-07 16:48 GMT-04:00 hotz <hotz at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>:

> Hi Stéphane,
>
> we are working on versioning. We have decided for our application to
> handle versioning on dataset level not on resource level. Hence,
> if a resource of a dataset changes we create a new dataset which
> is a new version of the previous dataset containing the not changed
> resource.
> The basic idea is that a current dataset has the most recent resources, and
> older versions of that dataset are related to it by the CKAN-relation
> child-of (and
> backward parent-of). The historical resource files have to be stored
> somewhere
> in an archive.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Lothar
>
>
> Am 07.07.2015 um 15:23 schrieb Stéphane Guidoin:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Some best practice in terms of open data raise the fact that resources
>> (files) should be versionned and it should be possible to access past
>> version of a resource. In an ideal world, the resource itself should
>> contain historical trail (e.g date when a record was created/deleted) but
>> it's not always possible.
>>
>> From my ckan understanding, CKAN does not support that out of the box
>> (the only option is to add new resources with dates but you quickly end up
>> with dozens of resources in a dataset). Does someone has already evaluated
>> how to do that? For example have a resource and a link/button to access
>> historical file?
>>
>> Stéphane
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