[ckan-dev] Freshness field

[Steven De Costa]

We also implemented similar fields for  Australian data portals. The
extension is here:
http://extensions.ckan.org/extension/agls/

Cheers,
Steven

*STEVEN DE COSTA *|
*EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*www.linkdigital.com.au



On 20 October 2016 at 03:41, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:

> We implement some of these fields in our dataset schema on the Canadian
> portal.
>
> For our "freshness" field I tried to use ISO 8601 repeating intervals as
> the values stored where they fit our controlled list:
> https://github.com/open-data/ckanext-canada/blob/canada-v2.
> 5/ckanext/canada/schemas/presets.yaml#L1871-L1948
>
> CKAN includes a date on resources that is updated when new files are
> uploaded, but nothing for linked resources (all our resources currently)
> The update date fields we have must be updated manually or harvested from
> systems that track it.
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Dan Mihaila <danmihaila at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> We want to implement in our HDX data portal (http://data.humdata.org/) a
>> field (data freshness) which will help users to specify what is the
>> interval of time the data will refresh or a resource will be updated.
>> Basically we want to add at dataset level the data_update_frequency field.
>> Also there are 2 important fields that can help us trying to see what
>> resources needs updates or updated.
>>
>>    1. data_update_frequency  - Dataset expected update frequency  -
>>    Shows how often the data is expected to be updated or at least checked to
>>    see if it needs updating
>>    2. dataset_date  -  Dataset date  -  The date referred to by the data
>>    in the dataset. It changes when data for a new date comes to HDX so may not
>>    need to change for minor updates
>>    3. revision_last_updated  -  Resource last modified date  -
>>    Indicates the last time the resource was updated irrespective of whether it
>>    was a major or minor change
>>
>>
>> Are you aware of any extension that is doing this? In case there is no
>> extension (I couldn't find it) are any other people/projects interested in
>> such an extension?
>>
>> *Dan Mihaila*, IT Consultant
>> (M) +40 722 502 304 • (GTalk) dan.mihaila at gmail.com • (Skype) carcotelul
>> • (Twitter) dan_mihaila • (Yahoo) carcotelul
>>   <dmihaila at dginternational.org>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ckan-dev mailing list
>> ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
>> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/ckan-dev
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ckan-dev mailing list
> ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/ckan-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/attachments/20161020/09b2bec0/attachment-0003.html>