Taming Dynamic Data with Table Designer
October 25, 2024
CKAN 2.11 introduces Table Designer: form builder and enforced validation for your data
This article also appears in the CKAN Blog: Taming Dynamic Data with Table Designer and Table Designer was presented in video form at CKAN Monthly Live 22
Publishing high-quality data is hard.
- Data schemas, custom rules, and enforced validation help
Publishing high-quality data over time is much harder.
- Data collected changes
- Validation rules change
- Publishers and tools producing the data change
- The way we use the data changes
- We want use old data and new data together
In CKAN, time series data and regularly updated data is often published as a new CSV or Excel file every release, either replacing an existing file or being added to a growing collection.