[okfn-help] Patching datasets in CKAN?

Wed Feb 3 20:43:46 UTC 2010

On 2 February 2010 11:52, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> In CKAN is there a mechanism of "patching" data between the different
> instances of CKAN?

Yes, at least in theory: you can send around a "Revision" (recordings:
who, when + log message) together with the relevant object diffs.
Alternatively by simply updating a package whether via the site or via
the API you implicitly create a Revision and an associated diff object
(PackageRevision object).

> I got the idea from here:
[...]
> http://datacommoners.blogspot.com/2009/04/big-data.html

I hadn't seen that but it's interesting! One minor thing I note is
that, despite its claims, couchdb very much isn't distributed (at
least not yet). For more info on distributed DB/storage systems see:

http://wiki.okfn.org/SoftwareTools/Databases
http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Distributed_Storage/
http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Distributed_Storage/Research/

Regards,

Rufus
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