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| | 6 | == Improved groups == |
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| | 8 | From Richard Cyganiak. |
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| | 10 | This is a set of proposals to make the groups feature more powerful. As a result, currently separate CKAN instances such as http://ie.ckan.net/ could be turned into a simple group on the [http://thedatahub.org Data Hub] without losing their separate identity. |
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| | 12 | * '''Group homepages:''' Make the group pages more attractive and welcoming as homepages. The main Data Hub homepage does a great job at this now – can the group pages be made more like that? They're quite uninformative and bland right now. |
| | 13 | * '''Subdomains for groups:''' Enable subdomains such as <code>ie.thedatahub.org</code> as aliases for <code>thedatahub.org/group/ireland</code> |
| | 14 | * '''Search within the group:''' Have a big search box that searches just within the group on the group page, with a look like on http://thedatahub.org/dataset |
| | 15 | * Have an “'''Add a dataset to this group'''” link on the group page, perhaps in the sidebar. |
| | 16 | * '''Navigation within the group:''' Have some more navigation starting points on the group page, e.g., the Tags + Resource Format sidebar from http://thedatahub.org/dataset |
| | 17 | * '''Group documentation:''' Add the ability to add more “About this group” text, or pages like “FAQ” and “Extra field conventions”. |
| | 18 | * The only place where one can currently put group-specific text is before the dataset list. Putting much text there is bad as it moves the datasets below the fold. |
| | 19 | * Can the top-level sections of a group's description be automatically turned into separate pages that are linked from the sidebar? With headlines <code>About</code>, <code>Frequently Asked Questions</code> and <code>How to get involved</code>, we'd then get three links in the sidebar that point to <code>datahub.org/group/ireland/about</code>, <code>datahub.org/group/ireland/frequently-asked-questions</code>, <code>datahub.org/group/ireland/how-to-get-involved</code>. |
