Ticket #1190 (new enhancement) — at Version 2
[super] CREP 0004 Data API and Data Processing System
| Reported by: | rgrp | Owned by: | rgrp |
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| Priority: | awaiting triage | Milestone: | ckan-v1.5 |
| Component: | ckan | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Repository: | ckan | |
| Theme: | none |
Description (last modified by rgrp) (diff)
For some time (e.g. 1y+!) we have known that we want to integrate some kind of datastore / data processing system with CKAN. We've had a CREP in progress on this for some months (may copy that here at some point):
<http://bitbucket.org/okfn/ceps/src/tip/cep/cep-0004.txt>
We can distinguish 3 modules that are needed:
- "Webstore": A datastore with dataapi - #1208
Suggestion is this would be sqlite based with a simple sql based API. http://ckan.net/api/data/{user|org}/{datastore_name}?q={some-read-sql-query}
- A data processing system which utilizes this datastore. One could
get a long way with simple javascript running in the browser for development with this javascript then run offline using something like nodejs. Alternatively one could allow one to specify a url to e.g. a python file which would then be run in a sandbox (with access to some specified set of python modules)
- A bootstrap process to convert CKAN resources into new resources
stored in our datastore so that they are accessible via the API.
