[ckan-discuss] Idea: Derivative data package

Mon May 16 10:12:10 BST 2011

On 16 May 2011 21:02, Stefano Costa <stefano.costa at okfn.org> wrote:

> Il giorno Mon, 16/05/2011 alle 15.28 +1200, Tim McNamara ha scritto:
> >
> >
> > For example, New Zealand's Historic Places Trust provides a register
> > of heritage buildings[0]. There's fairly usable search search
> > functionality, but little ability to get a dump of the whole register.
> > The Trust is also pretty reluctant to offer one[1]. However, all of
> > the non-copyright material has been scraped from the site, free for
> > anyone to download[2].
> >
> > Ideally, CKAN would meet two needs. First, it would provide a link to
> > all sources of the data, especially sources which are cleaned up or
> > more complete than the original. Secondly, it would appease officials'
> > concerns that their version is labelled official.
>
> Tim,
> I agree with you that this is key, but I think there is already such a
> feature in CKAN, albeit not exposed through the web user interface. See
> e.g. http://it.ckan.net/package/linked-open-camera that is marked as
> derivative of http://it.ckan.net/package/partito-radicale-it-open-camera
>
> I did this via the API, and documented briefly here
> http://wiki.ckan.net/Package_relationships ‒ not exhaustive but it's a
> start..
>
> Ciao
> steko

Caio!

Excuse my ignorance.  This is great to see.
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