Dataset link

[mhamilt]

The data set links directly to another repository.

For ease of use and to avoid confusion with learners, a possible approach would be to include the data set as part of a release within

• The Data Set Repository itself
• The python humanities lesson repository.

Linking to particular files in a git repository for download is generally not a great idea. As is having .zip files in a repository. For sustainability and to avoid link rot, I'd personally recommend making a release for the dataset repository and including a .zip of the specific python data as part of the release.

[iaine]

I've changed it to the Python Humanities lesson from commit eff61038c69c92b7e17f5de6fabc0b1a71d2d053

The original link is from where the data was being edited. Moved to this repo for now.

[mhamilt]

This still does not render as a direct download link. I think the best thing to do would really be to wrap everything in a zip and have it as part of release.

Python Inflammation links to a zip within the git itself which is then served out as a download link on the page, though I still think this is a messy way to approach things.

In any case, it should be avoided that learners be required to copy-paste source text or navigate GitHub's interface in any way to download data for a carpentry.

Suggested Approaches

• The Data Set Repository itself: Same as The python humanities lesson repository: downloads as humanities-lesson-data-master.zip
  • There could also be a data branch to give a folder of humanities-lesson-data-data.zip with a download link of https://github.com/iaine/humanities-lesson-data/archive/data.zip
• zipping data and adding it to data. Messy, but this the approach taken with other carpentries so at least there is precedence.
• Link to the specific file with the GitHub Pages URL. i.e. [Link to file]({{ site.url }}/path/to/file/in/repo.csv) Since browsers will handle different file streams in their own way, we can't guarantee this will result in a download. To guarantee a download would require the usage of something like download.js the amount of effort required to do that far outweighing any of the other methods.