[ckan-discuss] Adding multiple OpenlyLocal URLs/datasets to CKAN?

Sat Jul 17 14:03:47 BST 2010

On 17 July 2010 13:17, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking not of one for each police force, but for the collection of
> all police forces e.g. http://OpenlyLocal.com/police_forces (accesible as
> XML and JSON too)

Aha, in that case I would create a separate package for the police
force info versus say the pension info (even if there is an overall
openlylocal package). We now have package relationships in CKAN and
going forward these could be used to link the overall openlylocal
package with these specific ones (NB: relationships are not yet
editable in web user interface quite yet -- but are in API and read
view).

Rufus

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> cc'ing ckan-discuss as this question is of general interest!
>>
>> On 17 July 2010 12:58, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Someone who I followed just asked on twitter for list of police forces
>> > available as data. I pointed him to the OpenlyLocal list, but it
>> > occurred to
>> > me it's not obvious that we have all these datasets (also police
>> > authorities
>> > and local auth pension funds)
>> > What do you think about me adding separate entries to CKAN? I'm easy
>> > either
>> > way, and don't want it to appear spammy, but may make it easier for some
>> > people.
>>
>> This is a standard question that has come quite a lot :) (and comes up
>> with data.gov.uk too). The simple answer at the moment is that I don't
>> think it is worth creating individual datasets/packages for *each*
>> police force/pension fund on CKAN.
>>
>> Rather I'd suggest creating a single dataset/package on CKAN and if
>> possible have a single file for download that has all the relevant
>> data -- you can always add notes explaining how to get individual data
>> items via e.g. the API. (You may also want to add Resource item for
>> the api using the api/... format we are standardizing on [1]).
>>
>> [1]: <http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/doc/package#FormatStrings>
>>
>> If you don't have a single file for the whole lot but single
>> files/urls for given police forces I'd suggest, for the time being,
>> having a single Resource item linking to one specific example with a
>> description string making this clear. Again you can then explain in
>> the notes how to get all of them. This avoids having to create 500
>> resources (you can do that if you wish but IMO it is not very useful
>> -- much better to have a single example and move towards having a tar
>> ball or url for the whole lot).
>>
>> Rufus
>>
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>> >
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