[ckan-discuss] Idea: exclude "About" and "Description" from summaries

[Rufus Pollock]

On 13 September 2011 23:16, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
> Ref http://thedatahub.org/dataset?q=air+quality
>
> The large majority of results have their first word as "About",
> "Description" and occasionally "Summary". This makes it hard to skim
> read records.

That's a legacy of how we use to write the description field in thedatahub.

> Perhaps we could use a post-processor somewhere that takes the
> compiled Markdown HTML and strips any headings before they're included
> as headings?

We could do this but it would seem like a bit of 'hack' in the core
codebase that was specific to one particular site. I think a better
approach is just to go and fix up those datasets at some point by hand
or automatedly ... (BTW if you are thinking of doing some automated
please consult the list before proceeding and as we don't want to
suddenly touch 1500 datasets at once without talking it through ;-) )

Rufus