[CKAN-support] SA CKAN Instance - Data Testing [DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]

Fri Mar 22 10:38:51 UTC 2013

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your email, it's great to hear that you're generally happy with
the site. The feedback from your testing is really useful. See below for
comments on each item.

With regards to next steps it would be good to have the new logo and any
content changes complete before we migrate the site to the live server.
When do expect to have those?

Best,

Darwin

Darwin Peltan
Project Manager

The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org

Skype: darwinp
Twitter: @darwin

On 22 March 2013 03:37, Marshall, Peter (OCIO) <Peter.Marshall2 at sa.gov.au>wrote:

> *For Official Use Only*
>
> Hi,****
>
> I have been loading live data in to the ‘hosting’ environment -
> http://sa.staging.ckanhosted.com/ and in the process have uncovered a few
> anomalies and points of interest.****
>
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>
> If you could assess these please – none appear to be show-stoppers.  I’ve
> provided examples from the datasets in my notes below so you can observe
> more easily.****
>
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>
> Note that *most* of the resources attached to datasets are linked rather
> than stored.****
>
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>
> **1)      ** The ‘author’ is shown at the dataset level – see
> http://sa.staging.ckanhosted.com/dataset/video-conferencing-sites,
> however when you go to the resource level (click on the resource) it is
> displayed as ‘unknown’ in the ‘Additional Information’.  Additional
> question: was the ‘maintainer’ meant to be displayed in ‘Additional
> Information’ too?
>
Agree this is a bug. Issue raised in CKAN 2.0 project will be fixed as part
of CKAN ongoing development in near future.

> ****
>
> **2)      **The ‘show more’ and ‘hide’ functions sitting below
> ‘Additional Information’ on the ‘resource’ page don’t seem to do anything.
>
Agree this is a bug. Issue raised in CKAN 2.0 project will be fixed as part
of CKAN ongoing development in near future.

> ****
>
> **3)      **On some datasets, clicking on the resource immediately tries
> to download rather than attempt to preview first – see
> http://sa.staging.ckanhosted.com/dataset/adelaide-metro-general-transit-feed-specification-2
>
Issue raised in CKAN 2.0 project to improve the user experience in this
situation

> ****
>
> **4)      **In some datasets that don’t preview, when you click on ‘more
> details’ you get the ‘no handler….’ Message – see
> http://sa.staging.ckanhosted.com/dataset/gazetteer.  On some others you
> get a more severe looking “error” message referring to the timeout that was
> happening – e.g. Could not load preview: DataProxy returned an error
> (Data transformation failed. HTTPException: Deadline exceeded while waiting
> for HTTP response from URL:
> http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/datasets/SLSALibraryhackAllImagesExcludingAboriginalIncludingGEOS_2011-01-19.csv
> ) – see
> http://sa.staging.ckanhosted.com/dataset/south-australian-photographs
>

That CSV is 30 MB so it's too big for CKAN to be able to load from a remote
site and preview. Uploading to the datastore would give better results but
it is still quite a large file.

> ****
>
> **5)      **In some instances when you are in a map and enlarging
> (drilling in on) the map, the map “jumps” a bit higher on the screen
> masking the ‘grid graph map’ boxes.
>
I wasn't quite sure what you meant by this. Do you have a screenshot
please?

> ****
>
> **6)      **Question: I notice the maps use “cluster markers” for
> clustering at one point – this option  is ticked by default.  What is the
> basis for these boundaries as they seem quite inconsistent?
>
I will double check how those areas are defined with the developer
responsible for that component.

> ****
>
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> If you see any usage errors or misconceptions I have (about the
> functionality) on the data I have entered it would be great to know.****
>
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>
> Thanks,****
>
> Peter ****
>
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