[ckan-dev] DCAT JSON harvester license property not importing

Wed Feb 15 09:32:29 UTC 2017

Hi,

Yes, annoyingly DCAT defines license at the resource level and there
isn't one at the dataset level that resources can inherit from (but
there is one in catalog!)

https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-dcat/issues/42

Anyway, I think that the use case of grabbing the first license found
on a resource and applying it to the dataset is a common enough one to
implement it on the default profile, and people can override it if not
happy with it (it will be better than no license at all).

I'd be more than happy to review and merge a contribution if someone
is up for it.

Adrià

On 15 February 2017 at 08:16, Stefan Oderbolz <stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch> wrote:
> Hi Cam,
>
> I guess you are not using a custom DCAT profile, because then the default
> profile is being used which is "euro_dcat_ap", which is defined here:
> https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-dcat/blob/e1245cdb5e29194787c33430db637be74e5bc2e1/ckanext/dcat/profiles.py#L577
> This profile does not define licenses on a dataset level, but only in a
> level of a distribution (a.k.a. resources). Which DCAT-AP standard do you
> want to harvest?
>
> It might be needed to create your own profile to define exactly this
> specifities. The process to do so is described in the README:
> https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-dcat#profiles
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best regards Stefan
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Cam Findlay <cam at camfindlay.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Has anyone else had trouble with the DCAT JSON harvester in particular the
>> license property not being set on the harvested dataset?
>>
>> Our JSON source includes at the dataset level:
>>
>> "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
>>
>> However the final result is no license gets set for the dataset post
>> harvest. I'd expect "Creative Commons Attribution" to show up but we get
>> nothing. If I edit the dataset and manually set the license then it shows
>> fine. So it seems to be lost on import for some reason.
>>
>> No problems with the CKAN to CKAN harvester, we get the license correctly
>> so just checking if there is any known issues around DCAT JSON and license
>> properties.
>>
>> Trying to determine if it's extension related or a problem at our end.
>>
>> (Running CKAN 2.6.X, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
>>
>> Thanks in advance :)
>>
>> Cam.
>>
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