[okfn-help] Using CKAN software to make open textbook registry?

Wed Jun 3 13:05:41 BST 2009

I guess I was thinking in the longer term - especially in terms of
importing standard metadata from other lists, tagging and
browsing/sorting by tag, etc. It seems to me that many of the CKAN
fields could be mostly the same, i.e.

  * short name
  * title (of book)
  * url
  * download url
  * license
  * tags
  * notes

I guess it could get more complex if one wanted to add author, date of
publication, date of edition, etc.

J.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Could do though I think a simple wiki page might be simpler to start
> with (CKAN is specifically package-oriented which might fit so well
> for textbooks).
>
> rufus
>
> 2009/5/22 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
>> I wonder whether it would be difficult to use the CKAN software to
>> make a registry for open textbooks? Also if the fields were
>> standardised, would it be straightforward to import and share metadata
>> on textbooks?
>>
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