[ckan-discuss] s/package/data set/g

Tue Jul 26 07:29:25 BST 2011

Have you guys discussed what to do with "resources" when package becomes
dataset? Datasets continue containing resources? Or datasets contain
datasets?

I didn't really have anything against package. Does "data package" please
greeks and trojans?

Cheers
Pablo
On Jul 25, 2011 10:45 AM, "Jindřich Mynarz" <mynarzjindrich at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm certainly -1 on this because I think it might confuse the users.
> The package is not the dataset, it's a *description* (metadata) of the
> dataset [1]. Maybe it's not the best term to use, but it's better than
> to lead users to expect they can find the datasets themselves at the
> Data Hub.
>
> Best,
>
> Jindrich
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MagrittePipe.jpg
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
wrote:
>> On 25 July 2011 05:17, Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas at deri.org>
wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think that the term "package" should be removed from thedatahub.org
>>>> and replaced with "data set" or "dataset". While CKAN is to be the
>>>> Debian of data, I think "dataset" would lead to fewer mental steps for
>>>> new comers.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> This has already been discussed quite a lot (e.g. it's one of the
>> items on the UX refactor page: <http://wiki.ckan.net/UX>) and I think
>> there is general agreement on this. The issue here is that it is a
>> (relatively) costly refactor so we are waiting for the right time to
>> do it (we can try doing it slightly 'hackily' by just using i18n but I
>> think this is a short term approach).
>>
>> Rufus
>>
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