[ckan4rdm] using CKAN as research data repository

Tue Feb 10 10:49:49 UTC 2015

Hi Stefan,
Thanks a lot for your suggestions. If we come up with some solution, 
I'll let you know here on the list.
Regards,
Marta

W dniu 2015-02-10 o 11:14, Stefan Oderbolz pisze:
> Hi Marta,
>
> this is one of those features that is still missing in CKAN core. What
> you basically want is some kind of workflow for a dataset to be
> published and/or updated.
> It's on the CKAN roadmap
> (https://github.com/ckan/ideas-and-roadmap/issues/108) but not yet
> implemented.
>
> At the moment you could either try to solve it in a separate extension
> or try to "hack" this feature using the status field (i.e. set all new
> datasets to status "private", and only allow admins to set it to
> "public"). But I'm not saying this is easy to implement. I already
> tried to do this twice and gave up because of the complexity of gettng
> the details right.
>
> Best regards Stefan
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Marta Hoffman-Sommer
> <m.hoffman-sommer at icm.edu.pl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone tried to use CKAN in such a way, that all datasets created by
>> users need to be approved by a sysadmin before becoming publicly visible?
>> (so that we could e.g. prevent users from posting non-scientific data?) How
>> could this be done? Is there any possibility of configuring CKAN to do this,
>> or would we need to write an extension?
>> I would be grateful for any comments on this.
>> Best,
>> Marta
>>
>> -------
>> Marta Hoffman-Sommer
>> Open Science Platform
>> ICM University of Warsaw
>> http://pon.edu.pl
>>
>>
>> W dniu 2015-01-16 o 10:24, Marta Hoffman-Sommer pisze:
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the hints - this is great help. We are now looking at your
>> extensions in detail, together with my colleagues. The DOI extension should
>> work for us, I think, and that's very important (we're aware that we will
>> need a contract for this). I'll be watching for your embargo extension. And
>> if we stick to our decision of using CKAN (which we most likely will), then
>> I will certainly have more questions.
>>
>> Best,
>> Marta
>>
>>
>>
>> W dniu 2015-01-16 o 05:03, Florian May pisze:
>>
>> Marta, Ben,
>>
>> this is highly interesting! I'm using CKAN to archive all the research
>> datasets without a proper home (dedicated data warehouse).
>>
>> +1 on embargoing! We run one instance with all datasets set to "public"
>> inside our well-protected intranet, and one completely separate (because I
>> feared accidental leaks) instance facing outside. As we work with sensitive
>> data about threatened species, our data release process is painfully manual
>> and goes across several desks, so there's no automation yet. It would be
>> great to have some sort of auditable data release sign-off, possibly
>> triggering a push to the external site.
>>
>> Great to hear about ckanext-doi! I'll have to have a chat with the
>> Australian National Data Service, who offered to mint DOIs for us, whether
>> that offer would extent to a modified ckanext-doi.
>>
>> Ben, FYI our colleagues at the WA Museum have just adopted CollectiveAccess
>> for their collection data management:
>> http://www.gaiaresources.com.au/collectiveaccess-powerful-flexible-collection-management/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Florian
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Ben Scott <ben at benscott.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi Maria -
>>>
>>> We’re using CKAN as a repository for our research and collections data
>>> here at the Natural History Museum, London -http://data.nhm.ac.uk/.
>>>
>>> 1) Embargoing datasets - this is on our roadmap and a high priority so we
>>> should be writing an extension for this soon.
>>>
>>> 2) Batch upload - we’ve built data import pipelines using Spotify’s Luigi
>>> framework (https://github.com/spotify/luigi) and the CKAN api. It’s very
>>> specialised for our collections database though, and not implemented as an
>>> extension - but it might be useful
>>> (https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ke2mongo).
>>>
>>> 3) We’ve written an extension for assigning DataCite DOIs -
>>> https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ckanext-doi (You will need a
>>> contract with DataCite / their national representative to be able to mint
>>> DOIs).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------
>>> Data Portal Lead Architect
>>> Biodiversity Informatics,
>>> Natural History Museum,
>>> London
>>> +44 (0) 207 942 4277
>>>
>>> On 15 Jan 2015, at 13:57, Marta Hoffman-Sommer
>>> <m.hoffman-sommer at icm.edu.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> We're planning an open research data repository which will serve the
>>>> whole scientific community in Poland and we're seriously considering to use
>>>> CKAN for this purpose. I was wondering if some of you have already
>>>> implemented CKAN as a stand-alone repository (not part of a data management
>>>> system)? Is anybody aware of CKAN extensions that would enable (1)
>>>> embargoing dataset release, (2) batch upload and edition of multiple files,
>>>> or (3) DOI assignment and display? We have been unsuccessfully searching for
>>>> these on the web.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Marta
>>>>
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>>>> Open Science Platform
>>>> ICM University of Warsaw
>>>> http://pon.edu.pl
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