[ckan-discuss] CKAN Wishlist

Tue Mar 6 12:17:01 GMT 2012

On 29/02/2012 20:21, Augusto Herrmann wrote:
> Here's our wishlist:
>
> 1) Subject field for selecting a preset subject from a hierarquical
> subjects list, preferrably to be imported into CKAN from a SKOS format
> file. David Read told me this was already being implemented, minus the
> hierarquical part. This should entail: (a) an autocomplete widget for
> the new/edit dataset forms, which would allow the person registering
> or editing the dataset to select the most apropriate subject or
> subjects related to the dataset; and (b) search capability by subjects
> on the list - this could be by creating a view for subjects just like
> the exisiting one for tags, which would list all datasets for a given
> subject under an URL such as '/subject/<slug>'. This subject listing
> page should also appear on search results that match the subject's
> label.

This is CKAN's new "vocabularies" feature:

http://ckan.org/2012/02/23/ckan-team-latest/

I expect that this feature will be in the next CKAN release.

> 3) Internationalized labels and description fields. On every text
> field related to datasets or resources, where natural language text
> should go (e.g. titles, descriptions), there should be allowed to be
> multiple labels in different languages, inserted by editors of the
> dataset. That way, english language users of the data catalog would
> see the dataset title and description in english. Users in other
> languages would see the dataset labels and descriptions in their
> selected language, if available.

We're also working on this feature!