Catalogs

Connectors allow you to interact, read and write, with other platforms or data services.

With the writing interaction, metadata is pushed into other catalogs.
An example of a catalog is the French National Open Data Catalog data.gouv.fr : datasets published with Data Fair can be automatically synchronized and any metadata changes on Data Fair are propagated to the remote catalog.

With the reading interaction, connectors are harvesters of metadata and data.
It is possible, for each connector, to configure the collection frequencies and the types of sources to harvest.

Data.gouv.fr catalog configuration

Here is the configuration of the Koumoul organization's data.gouv.fr catalog :

Catalogue
Set up catalogs and make your data accessible from other platforms

  1. Catalog title
  2. Catalog description
  3. Catalog API key
  4. Dataset link
  5. Visualization link

Links to datasets and visualizations correspond to the pages of your portal to which you wish to redirect visitors who are going to navigate to your portal.

The API key to be entered corresponds to the key you generate on your data.gouv.fr account in your personal space :

Catalogue
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