[ckan-dev] Deprecated: related items (Apps & Ideas)

Fri Sep 11 13:42:52 UTC 2015

David,

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:32 PM, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com
> wrote:

> As an aside, I've struggled to find compelling use cases to show
> relationships between datasets. Some people talk about wanting to show
> 'parent/child' relationships, or 'related to' or 'is similar to'. But the
> nature of the relationship always seemed difficult to define clearly in a
> way that is useful for datasets en mass. I think they tend to be
> conveniences for the human user, rather than useful machine-readable
> metadata.
>

On a side note, I agree that 'parent/child', 'related to' and 'is similar
to' are too general notions. We've settled on "derived from" and "composed
by", and these are really useful to us. See here for a bit more detail:
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/2625#issuecomment-138616855

Cheers,
Filipe
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