[ckan-discuss] Multiple authors etc

Tue Dec 17 16:09:02 UTC 2013

There’s no reason that the data, if it exists, couldn’t be migrated to an extra as part of the upgrade to the version without the maintainer field, however...

Unless there’s a dramatic change to the schema in a future release(perhaps basing the default schema on DCAT), where there is an opportunity to make the change with plenty of notice and an easy migration I think removing fields from the default schema should be avoided.

Those ‘unused’ fields might be considered cruft in some respect, but will likely end up generating even more in providing a workaround to each one removed.

Ross.

On 17 Dec 2013, at 15:31, Stéphane Guidoin <stephane at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> The obvious issue with this approach is that it will require some work for implementation that are currently using the maintainer fields and will see it disappear. They will have to create 2 extra fields and then write a script to transfer the content. Not sure they will appreciate the surprise.
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> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
> After some discussion on #1366, I believe we should just delete the
> "maintainer" fields:
> 
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/1402
> 
> Mark
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> On 07/12/2013, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I think there's a problem with 'Author' and 'Maintainer'. A digital
> > object in practice may have multiple authors; the meaning of
> > "maintainer" is unclear.
> >
> > I'm sure  I've suggested these in the past, but anyway, I've just
> > created Github issues for what I think should be done with these -
> > comments welcome:
> >
> > https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/1365
> > https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/1366
> >
> > Probably best to comment there rather than here.
> >
> > Mark
> >
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