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Is there any way to get a package's resource's field names/datatypes with downloading the entire resource?
The CKAN <site>/api/3/action/package_show API provides a lot of metadata, but for tabular (row-column) resources I don't see any way to get the field names and datatypes other than by reading ...
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CKAN vs. Socrata
CKAN is sponsored by OKFN and runs data.gov, so what would be the benefits of switching to Socrata? Negatives? I'm partial to staying in line with OKFN, but I admit that its completely biased and I am ...