[ckan-discuss] Publishing to CKAN the Southampton Way

Wed Mar 30 15:47:27 BST 2011

Hi Christopher, looking at

   http://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/places.ttl

I wonder if it doesn't conflate dcat:Dataset and dcat:Distribution. A
think with a dcat:accessURL is a dcat:Distribution (analogous to CKAN's
resources) as I understand it (dcat:Dataset being analogous to CKAN's
package).

I do like that you've mixed dcat and void, I think that a void:Dataset
is a subclass of dcat:Dataset, e.g. RDF datasets are a subset of the
set of all datasets, though I don't think this is formally asserted
to be so in the vocabularies.

I would be interested to hear what you think of this representation
of a CKAN package chosen at random (and purposefully omitting the void)

   http://river.styx.org:8080/package/970dd41a-b299-4e95-af1d-98e296cbe86a.turtle

Cheers,
-w

* [2011-03-10 15:16:57 +0000] Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> écrit:

] Rufus has asked me to drop into the list to share what we've done to 
] integrate data.southampton.ac.uk into CKAN.
] 
] Our datasets have URI of the form
] http://id.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/places
] and HTML pages
] http://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/places.html
] they also have the, now traditional range of linked data API options 
] that aren't quite working yet for me.
] http://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/places.rdf
] http://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/places.xml
] you know the kind of thing.
] 
] They also have a couple of unusual export views
] http://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/places.ckan.json
] http://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/places.boilerplate.rdf
] 
] The first of these provides the JSON to inject into the CKAN API to 
] update or create the dataset, the second generates the triples which get 
] appended to the dataset each time it's published. (License etc.) The 
] scripts which do this are actually entirely different from the ones 
] which do places.html and there's .htaccess jiggerypokery, but the result 
] seems more elegant to my sysprog eyes.
] 
] And of course; our scripts are available to all:
] https://github.com/cgutteridge/Grinder/tree/master/bin
] 
] 
] 
] 
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