[ckan-discuss] CKAN for chemistry

Egon Willighagen egon.willighagen at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 08:02:34 GMT 2011


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 21 February 2011 13:29, Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Egon: would be great to have any further input from you on what
>> > changes you'd suggest on the basis of your experiences as a user!
>
> Really great to have your input and feedback Egon.

Same here! Your answers are very useful, and will be very useful in March!

>> - how should mere dataset aggregations be handled? (Bio2RDF versus ChEMBL)
>
> Depends what it is. If it is actually a new 'consolidated' dataset/package
> then this should be a new package. Otherwise let's use groups.

One thing here is that consolidated or not, these things can have
mixed licenses... can we assign multiple licenses to one Package at
this moment? The source code equivalent would be a the CDK which is
mostly LGPL, but has some MIT bits in it too.

>> catalogRecord:X :derivedFrom catalogRecordY
>
> That's what we can use Package Relationships (or perhaps resource
> relationships!) for. See <http://wiki.ckan.net/Package_Relationships>

Excellent! I will have a good look at that.

>> PS. Simple that is very simple to fix, is to add this combined license:
>>
>> "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike"
>>
>> which is used by, for example, ChEMBL.
>
> That license is in fact already in there -- the OKD-Compliant::Creative
> Commons Sharealike is in fact Attribution-Sharealike (there is no CC
> Sharealike w/o attribution).

Ah, never realized!

> To clarify this the naming of the license has now been corrected.

Appreciated!

> PPS: one question you mention in your article was how to delete things. See
> this FAQ:
> <http://wiki.ckan.net/FAQ#How_Do_I_Deal_with_Duplicate_Packages>

Thanx!

Back in 1994 when we started making web pages, we learned that every
extra click is a loss of visitors. Information only two clicks away
will be read by very, very few people. I should have clicked Help, but
there was already so much to-my-feeling inconsistency to comment on,
that I never got there.. only showing that this ancient knowledge is
still applicable :)

Egon

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Karolinska Institutet
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