repository URL are not datapackage URL directory

[femtotrader]

Hello,

I noticed that it's strange to see how data are given in this repository

For example in core-list.txt

We can find this repository
https://github.com/datasets/gold-prices
datapackage can be found in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/gold-prices/master/
( see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/gold-prices/master/datapackage.json )

but some other repository behave differently

https://github.com/theodi/hot-drinks

contains datapackage.json

but it's available at

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theodi/hot-drinks/gh-pages/datapackage.json

not

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theodi/hot-drinks/master/datapackage.json

You might noticed this gh-pages

That's quite strange and not very convenient if we want to use datasets/registry for testing purpose of some datapackage tools.

My suggestion is

datapackage URL directory should be given instead of repository URL
(ie https://github.com/datasets/gold-prices should be replaced by https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/gold-prices/master/ or https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/gold-prices/master/datapackage.json )

but if there is only an issue with this gh-page, an other columns with gh-page should be given (most of data being False)

An other approach could be to have an other column with datapackage.json URL (when URL can't be found obviously)

Kind regards

[femtotrader]

An example of the problem with https://github.com/theodi/hot-drinks

DataPackage Viewer is not able to "discover" data without a "full" URL

http://data.okfn.org/tools/view?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Ftheodi%2Fhot-drinks%2Fgh-pages%2Fdatapackage.json

[femtotrader]

My opinion is, in fact, that an other column "branch" is necessary.
branch could be "master" or "gh-pages"