[ckan4rdm] Many authors

Wed Feb 25 09:26:28 UTC 2015

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 09:55:34PM +0100, Mateusz Neumann wrote:
> Have you tried using CKAN to store datasets with more than one author?
> How would you do it (use “custom field”?  list many authors in one
> “author” field?)  Maybe someone has already written an extension?

In the Finnish Etsin metadata service, there are separate fields for
many kinds of "agents" that have different roles WRT the dataset.  IIRC
these are stored in the additional metadata "extras".  See e.g. this:
http://kata.csc.fi/dataset/urn-nbn-fi-csc-kata20150220184701979694

Panu

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