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Discussion of resources referred to in package meta data (currently Download URL)
On CKAN a Package just has metadata and doesn't store the resource (payload) (CKAN is just a registry). The CKAN metadata has a pointer, the download URL to find the associated resources.
Two sorts of resource links:
- Manifest
A set of filenames with accompanying description.
e.g. [('!UkBirths1998.xls', '1998 data'), ('!UkBirths1999.xls', '1999 data')]
- Distributions
Each distribution is a serialisation / representation of the full Package - metadata + payload. (Or sometimes just the payload).
e.g. mysite.com/births.xls.zip which contains the two excel files
But it also includes cases where we have:
- mysite.com/births.csv.zip
- mysite.com/births/api (restful api to the same data)
- mysite.com/births.html (WUI to the same data)
Different representations of the same material - how do we deal with this? Options:
- each distribution has its own CKAN package.
- a CKAN package can refer to multiple distributions.
package.distributions ?
