[ckan-discuss] Formal statement of CKAN's adoption of W3C DCAT?

Fri Nov 15 08:08:02 UTC 2013

Hello John,

I am also interested in a CKAN with fully implementation of DCAT, and with
more customization . Right now CKAN only provides metadata about their
datasets and their distributions, (there is not metadata about the catalog
itself). The DCAT metadata is alterable by using the file: "read.rdf",
located in: "(ckan
location)/default/src/ckan/ckan/templates_legacy/package/".

The syntax used to configure the metadata output it is not particularly
easy. Take a look to this (
http://docs.ckan.org/en/847-new-theming-docs/template-helper-functions.html),
because some of the functions used in the config file are there. Still I
miss some functionalities, for example something that provides the size of
one file, so you can use dcat:bytesize.

I am working right now to configure the DCAT metadata of my CKAN instance,
and at the same time I am waiting for some kind of upgrade to the
ckanext-dcat that could make this task easier.

Probably someone with more experience could give you more insight!

Jesús

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:24 PM, John Erickson <erickj4 at rpi.edu> wrote:

> Can someone point me to some statement that describes CKAN's level of
> adoption of W3C CKAN?
>
> I do know about ckanext-dcat https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-dcat but
> that doesn't provide a high-level position.
>
> Alternatively (or in addition), I would love to hear from "owners" of
> individual CKAN
> instances who have implemented (in some way) DCAT.
>
> Thanks!
>
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