[super] Publishing data tutorials / patterns

[rufuspollock]

• general instructions - http://data.okfn.org/publish
• tabular data tutorial on publishing tabular data as a simple data format data package #87 - http://data.okfn.org/doc/publish-tabular
• geo data tutorial on publishing geodata as a data package #90 - http://data.okfn.org/doc/publish-geo
• any kinds of data [doc] Tutorial on publishing any kind of data as a data package #123 - http://data.okfn.org/doc/publish-any

Common:

• Putting your data packages online - http://data.okfn.org/doc/publish-online
• Creating DataPackage.json
• FAQs re standard conventions etc - Publishing Data Packages FAQ #154

[rufuspollock]

@tlevine if you have done any data packaging please feedback here re improvements in process and instructions (current tabular tutorial is up at http://data.okfn.org/publish and could no doubt be improved). geo tutorial is in progress ...

[rufuspollock]

@peterdesmet this is the main issue on the publishing documentation side that i'm working through

@jalbertbowden any feedback you have based on your experience warmly welcomed here.

[rufuspollock]

Terminology question: should it be "publish" or "package" data tutorials etc (publish to me in this context = package up then put online).

[tlevine]

I only just noticed this somehow. The main feedbacks are that

1. I'd like a thing that writes the package for, akin to npm init.
2. The data package specification should allow nested CSV files. I did it anyway, but I recall that this was improper.

[rufuspollock]

@tlevine great feedback

• npm init already exists its dpm init - see https://github.com/okfn/dpm#initialize-create-a-data-package. Perhaps we should mention this better in the tutorial ... (dpm is linked from the tools page but ...)
• not quite sure what you mean by nested csv - could you explain a bit more (link to previews of csv via datapipes very help here - you can even do a combo of webshot.okfnlabs.org + http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/html to get csv screenshots on the fly ...)

[tlevine]

It was a while ago that I did this, so it's possible the tutorial was different then.

By "nested" CSV, I mean CSV with a column of type CSV.

[rufuspollock]

@tlevine ah ok - so this is like the existing thing of columns of type json ...

Please keep the feedback coming - really useful!

[jalbertbowden]

i'm going to catch up on all of this...but off the top of my head, now that dat is in alpha, i think we should all start dabbling with it and provide feedback

[rufuspollock]

Is this now a DUPLICATE of #182?

[danfowler]

This issue was moved to #51