- From: Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:47:38 -0400
- To: Peter DeVries <pete.devries@gmail.com>, Anja Jentzsch <anja@anjeve.de>
- Cc: "public-lod@w3.org Data" <public-lod@w3.org>
On Sep 8, 2010, at 01:31 AM, Peter DeVries wrote:
> I am kind of annoyed by the CKAN site.
I'm right there with you, Peter.
Anja, you say "you can edit without logging in" but please note that
the doc page [1] about this "database" says --
• Please register to CKAN bevor editing or adding any packages.
When I ignore that and do dive into editing DBpedia's listing,
I discover --
- The "notes" field uses "Markdown" markup, which I've never
encountered anywhere else, and must now learn (or fake).
- There must be a singular author, with a singular email address.
DBpedia doesn't have a singular author, and there are several
URIs which might be relevant to have here -- and they are not
mailto: URIs. The best is an http: URI ... but there is no way
to make this present, except as part of the literal associated
with the mailto: URI.
- There must be a singular maintainer, with a singular email address.
Same issues as with author.
- There are 14+ CKAN Resource links listed [2] in the documentation,
but the form appears to only take 5 (at least, 4 were previously
filled on the DBpedia page, and filling in the 5th didn't magically
cause a 6th to open, nor was there a link to create a 6th). OH!
Until I "Preview" the page -- and now there's an empty set of
Resource boxes ... so I can add one more, and Preview, and maybe
add one more, and Preview, and maybe.... Painful.
- The licensure choices separate CC-ShareAlike and CC-Attribution, but
do not list CC-Attribution-ShareAlike [3]. cc-by-sa is distinct from
cc-by -- and also from cc-by-nc-sa (CC-Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike), among others. Clarity of presentation is VERY important
for licensing!
- There appears to be an arbitrary limit on the number of "Extras"
key-value pairs associated with any given data set ... which means
that *truly* densely connected data sets will be short-changed.
From all I can see here, this is an RDB-based thing, not RDF-based. That's disappointing, to say the least.
All in all, the experience is challenging at best, when listing one
data set. But I have several more to deal with, and today's the
deadline! Hurrah!
*sighs*
Ted
[1] <http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/CKANmetainformation#How_do_I_add_a_dataset_to_CKAN_or_edit_an_existing_dataset.3F>
[2] <http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/CKANmetainformation#CKAN_resource_links>
[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License>
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| | A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
| | | Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
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