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

Tim McNamara paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz
Tue Jul 26 08:27:59 BST 2011


I personally prefer 'package' also. My thinking was that dataset would
be less confusing. From Jindřich's comments, that assumption may not
be valid and there are probably more important tickets to work on.

Have we had any direct complaints? If not, I suggest that we focus on
other areas.

2011/7/26 Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com>:
> 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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