http://localhost/ticket/818 <p> The semantics of the Author and Maintainer fields are really unclear at the moment. This leads to very inconsistent usage. Also, perhaps Name and Email are not the only fields that are needed for a contact. </p> <p> Here is a table that shows the current usage of these fields in CKAN: <a class="ext-link" href="http://richard.cyganiak.de/2010/ckan/ckan-ppl.html"><span class="icon">​</span>http://richard.cyganiak.de/2010/ckan/ckan-ppl.html</a> </p> <p> We note several problems: </p> <ul><li>Author and Maintainer are often the same </li><li>Author and Maintainer are often used interchangeably </li><li>People really want to specify URLs for the contacts and stick them into random places because there is no field for it </li><li>Multiple comma-separated names in a single field </li></ul><p> I'm not sure what to do about this, but a redesign is necessary in my opinion. </p> <p> Some ideas: </p> <ul><li>Remove the maintainer field? </li><li>Make really clear that Author doesn't refer to the metadata on CKAN, but to the original data </li><li>Add an “author URL” field? </li></ul> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/818 Trac 0.12.3 thejimmyg Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:47:34 GMT http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>priority</strong> set to <em>awaiting triage</em> </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> changed from <em>ckan-v1.3</em> to <em>ckan-v1.4-sprint-1</em> </li> </ul> Ticket rgrp Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:11:40 GMT http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:2 http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>milestone</strong> changed from <em>ckan-v1.4-sprint-1</em> to <em>ckan-v1.4</em> </li> </ul> Ticket dread Mon, 16 May 2011 15:24:02 GMT http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:3 http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:3 <ul> <li><strong>repo</strong> set to <em>ckan</em> </li> <li><strong>state</strong> set to <em>draft</em> </li> <li><strong>theme</strong> set to <em>none</em> </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> changed from <em>ckan-v1.4</em> to <em>ckan-v1.5</em> </li> </ul> <p> 1.4 complete </p> Ticket thejimmyg Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:45:57 GMT http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:4 http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:4 <ul> <li><strong>milestone</strong> <em>ckan-v1.5</em> deleted </li> </ul> Ticket seanh Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:37:01 GMT http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:5 http://localhost/ticket/818#comment:5 <ul> <li><strong>milestone</strong> set to <em>ckan-backlog</em> </li> </ul> Ticket