[datahub-discuss] Dataset names

Sun Dec 8 14:13:13 UTC 2013

Aside: I'm feeling we should move these discussions off mailing list to
http://help.datahub.io/ ...

On 6 December 2013 18:14, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Are dataset names unique across the whole of CKAN space. For example Gold
> prices is "gold", while my single dataset is currently
> "species-in-articles-from-biomedcentral". If I am going to be uploading 50
> datasets a day I can easily disambiguate
>

Yes, that's the approach CKAN takes at the moment. Perhaps one day there
should be some kind of organization prefixing but that's not on the horizon
right now.

> them for my own purposes, but I'd like to use a pseudo namespace/URI
> scheme, e.g. with my OKF handle as prefix:
>
> "petermr:pone:doi:10.1186/1471-2334-11-262"
>

I think you might want a bit terser? What about prefixing with your org
name (november-25) e.g.

november-25-doi-10.1186-1471

In general shortish, meaningful paths for datasets is a "good thing" (tm)

Is that syntactically allowed? Is it a good idea?
>

A dataset "title" can have anything in it. The "name" (aka slug) can only
have alphanumeric + ".-_".

Rufus

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