[ckan-dev] Fwd: [ckan4rdm] A shot at structured meta-data in CKAN

[Harald von Waldow]

Hi Tyler,

thanks a lot for the info, that is an extremely useful undertaking from
my perspective!


Harald


On 2016-06-20 17:40, Tyler Kennedy wrote:
> Heyo,
> 
> Seems some of the PRs I’m working on at the moment may be able to help
> in the future.
> 
> I am adding arbitrary JSON <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/3072> (for
> extensions) fields to Users, Packages, Groups, Orgs. Your structured
> metadata could easily be stored in this field while retaining its full
> structure and can be queried on.
> 
> For your SOLR problems, I am adding Column Declaration
> <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/3118> as part of a search indexer
> overhaul, which should do away with `schema.xml` and allow you to
> declare new columns to be indexed in your plugin, and which you can
> dynamically generate from your schema. Column declaration should also
> allow you to easily attach validators to columns without caring how they
> are structured.
> 
> Thank you,
> Tyler Kennedy
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org
> <mailto:adria.mercader at okfn.org>> wrote:
> 
>     In case someone is interested.
> 
> 
>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: Harald von Waldow <harald.vonwaldow at eawag.ch
>     <mailto:harald.vonwaldow at eawag.ch>>
>     Date: 17 June 2016 at 11:21
>     Subject: [ckan4rdm] A shot at structured meta-data in CKAN
>     To: ckan4rdm at lists.okfn.org <mailto:ckan4rdm at lists.okfn.org>
> 
> 
>     About representing something like
> 
>     > authors: [{"name": ,"email":, "orcid": ...], ...]
> 
>     as json for storage and the associated display, editing and indexing
>     code.
> 
>     https://ckan4rdm.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/list-of-authors/#comment-3
> 
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