ckanext-dcor-depot 0.7.2

Manages data storage for CKAN/DCOR (import, symlink, etc.)

This plugin manages how data are stored in DCOR. There are two types of files in DCOR:

1. Resources uploaded by users, imported from figshare, or imported from a data archive

2. Ancillary files that are generated upon resource creation, such as condensed DC data, preview images (see ckanext-dc_view).

This plugin implements:

• Data storage management. All resources uploaded by a user are moved to /data/users-HOSTNAME/USER-ORG/PK/ID/PACKAGE_RESOURCE and symlinks are created in /data/ckan-HOSTNAME/resources/RES/OUR/CEID. CKAN itself will not notice this. The idea is to have a filesystem overview about the datasets of each user.

• Import datasets from figshare. Existing datasets from figshare are downloaded to the /data/depots/figshare directory and, upon resource creation, symlinked there from /data/ckan-HOSTNAME/resources/RES/OUR/CEID (Note that this is an exemption of the data storage management described above). When running the following command, the “figshare-import” organization is created and the datasets listed in figshare_dois.txt are added to CKAN:

  ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini import-figshare

Please make sure that the necessary file permissions are given in /data.

Installation

pip install ckanext-dcor_depot

Add this extension to the plugins and defaul_views in ckan.ini:

ckan.plugins = [...] dcor_depot
ckan.storage_path=/data/ckan-HOSTNAME
ckanext.dcor_depot.depots_path=/data/depots
ckanext.dcor_depot.users_depot_name=users-HOSTNAME

This plugin stores resources to /data:

mkdir -p /data/depots/users-$(hostname)
chown -R www-data /data/depots/users-$(hostname)