Data download

[decaluwe]

Need to enable download of data. Includes:

• Check boxes next to displayed data sets.
• Selection options for "select/clear all displayed data"
• Some sort of "add to cart" button.
• "Download items in cart" button, which zips data up with metadata, combines all into a larger zip, and downloads.

[decaluwe]

Here's a question/idea:

Say a user has multiple data sets/types they've added to the cart (i.e., let's say they search a bunch of CV data of a certain type, add it to the cart, and then search out a bunch of EIS data, and add that).

Do we (eventually) want to wrap each into its own zip, so when you download thery're not all just dumped into a single folder?

To answer my own question (thinking while typing):

1. This sounds like it could get really complicated; and
2. I think the way to allow the user to re-separate these is, post-download, in the software routines. I think we'll want to have a package that enables data and metadata import into the software, and also creates routines for efficient sorting. So the user has a big folder of data types, and in the software reads through the metadata and selects out only those data sets she wants. i.e. sort of a client-side implementation of our sorting routines that we implement in the database.