[ckan-discuss] Fwd: CKAN feature roadmap. Support VOID files and SPARQL service description

Thu Jul 4 14:32:27 BST 2013

Hmm, I guess the common use case is for metadata that doesn't change
every month (address, type, description, licence, etc). What is it
you're updating monthly? What specific functionality on the Datahub
are you suggesting?

Mark

On 04/07/2013, Jerven Bolleman <me at jerven.eu> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is a desired feature to remove manual overhead of maintaining the same
> dataset information in many different databases of databases.
>
> For example the UniProt sparql endpoint has meta data in its service
> description. That you can retrieve here
>
> wget --header="Accept:application/rdf+xml"
> "http://beta.sparql.uniprot.org/"
> (Expect major improvements to this output in the coming months)
>
> Or the attached void file.
>
> Instead of us updating all this information manually everymonth we would
> rather generate a single void file. That other tools and list than datahub
> could use as well.
>
> Regards,
> Jerven
>
> PS. now with gzipped void file.
>
>
> --
> Jerven Bolleman
> me at jerven.eu
>

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