Complete JSON API for creating certificates

[Floppy]

As a data portal owner, I want to create silver-level or higher certificates so I can show I have great data.

There is no standard markup for the answers required for higher-level certificates, so a JSON API for creating certificates that allows a response for any question would do the job.

[Stephen-Gates]

So, as a data portal owner I'd need to write a program to call the API for my datasets each time they are added or changed. To earn a silver (or higher) certificate, I'd need to provide the required answers either by:

• using some defaults for my portal (e.g. my twitter account, I backup nightly)
• adding some metadata for each dataset (e.g. where's the technical documentation)

I just tried to earn a certificate for some of my data and this was the shortfall for Silver from the "How can I improve my open data" page:

• provide technical documentation for the data
• provide instructions about how suggest improvements to the way you publish data
• provide contact information for people to send questions about privacy and disclosure of personal details to.
• guarantee that your data will be available in this form for at least a year

Seems 3 of these could be portal defaults and I just need to address the "technical documentation" question.

@Floppy - Does that sound right?

How far could the CKAN Plug-in #1252 go in supporting the use of the API? Could the Plug-in read a portal configuration file to answer some questions, leaving only the dataset specific questions to be addressed?

[shevski]

I believe @Zephod is interested in this too. Tom any current plans?

[teajaymars]

Would have been really helpful in December but it will be months before we
loop back around to trying this again. Depends on demand from customers TBH.

On 9 March 2016 at 11:15, shevski [email protected] wrote:

I believe @Zephod https://github.com/zephod is interested in this too.
Tom any current plans?

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