CKAN Datavic Harvester

This is a custom Harvester (https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-harvest) extension for CKAN.

It assumes that the ckanext-harvest extension is installed and enabled in the CKAN .ini file.

Installation

To install ckanext-datavic-harvester:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

    . /app/src/ckan/default/bin/activate
   

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

    cd /app/src/ckan/default/src/ckanext-datavic-harvester
    python setup.py develop
   

3. Add datavic_dcat_json_harvester delwp_harvester to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /app/ckan/default/ckan.ini).

4. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with docker:

     docker-compose restart ckan
   

5. When creating a new harvest source via the standard ckanext-harvest admin UI, select CKAN Harvester for Data.Vic as the harvest type.

Additional Parameters

ignore_private_datasets

This setting can be used on the Public data.vic harvest from the Data Directory to exclude Private records from being harvested.

Default: False