ckanext-salford 0.0.2

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CKAN extension for https://www.salforddataquay.uk/

Installation

To install ckanext-salford:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate

2. Install the ckanext-salford Python package into your virtual environment:

   pip install ckanext-salford

3. Install the ckanext-esdstandards Python package into your virtual environment:

   pip install ckanext-esdstandards

4. Add salford and esd to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/production.ini).

5. Add the licenses_group_url setting to your CKAN config file. For development use:

   licenses_group_url = http://127.0.0.1:5000/licenses.json

   For production use:

   licenses_group_url = https://www.salforddataquay.uk/licenses.json

6. Install the Bower components:

   cd /ckanext/salford/fanstatic
   bower install

7. Restart CKAN. For example if you’ve deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

   sudo service apache2 reload

Configuration

Add the following configuration options to the ini file:

ckan.i18n_directory = /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-salford/src/ckanext-salford/
ckan.locale_default = en_GB
ckan.locales_filtered_out = en

Importing Datasets from data.gov.uk

The etl.py script can import datasets from the Salford City Council publisher on data.gov.uk into a development or production CKAN instance. Usage:

pip install ckanapi
./etl.py -u 'http://127.0.0.1:5000' -a <your_api_key>
./etl.py -u 'https://www.salforddataquay.uk/' -a <your_api_key>

Note that only non-UKLP datasets are imported for now, ie INSPIRE datasets on data.gov.uk are not imported.