[ckan-discuss] field for data owner?

Sat Feb 12 16:09:07 GMT 2011

On 11 February 2011 15:14, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> * [2011-02-11 14:01:32 +0000] Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> écrit:
>
> ] No there isn't. The maintainer of the ckan package should never be in
> ] the author or maintainer field :)
>
> I guess not so much an equivocation as a missing field, and
> a temptation to put that data into the wrong fields that sound
> "about right".

We should probably just display the 'owner' as set in the
authorization system (you are automatically made the owner if you
create the package).

> ] Why wouldn't they be in the author field and the maintainer field be
> ] for the person who is maintaining this for the community catalogue?
>
> Because they might not be the author. Maybe the author is a
> government department that no longer exists, the owner is
> the successor and the maintainer is, e.g. the national
> arcives?

Then couldn't they go in the maintainer field?

Rufus