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okfde / ckanext-offenedaten

CKAN extension for OffeneDaten.de (theme/UI & harvesters)
http://www.offenedaten.de
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"Extend" CKAN API to provide dataset listings as CSV and possibly data package and possibly Excel etc. #25

Open mattfullerton opened 9 years ago

mattfullerton commented 9 years ago

There are a lot of people out there who struggle to deal with JSON. We have quite a nice setup coming from the ODM project where some hierarchal data is 'flattened' on to a standard schema, whilst retaining the original metadata in an extra field. We might find more users for this data if we provide a download via CSV, tabular data package, Excel etc.

This is probably an issue for CKAN centrally. CKAN is very dataset focussed IMO and there isn't a lot of attention paid to metadata exchange. E.g. Datastore API is there for storing data for the datasets.

Relevant: https://github.com/okfn/data.okfn.org/issues/126

mattfullerton commented 9 years ago

There is a nice example of how to do this in the data.json export of ckanext-pdeu

mattfullerton commented 9 years ago

Need to examine the work in the DP[M] community