From 88976d6cd6e0f4809023149ce9f75a62975c9beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Willison Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 13:13:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Source, license and about docs - closes #475 --- docs/metadata.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/metadata.rst b/docs/metadata.rst index 9b7fe653..273eecc0 100644 --- a/docs/metadata.rst +++ b/docs/metadata.rst @@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ You can also provide metadata at the per-database or per-table level, like this: Each of the top-level metadata fields can be used at the database and table level. +Source, license and about +------------------------- + +The three visible metadata fields you can apply to everything, specific databases or specific tables are source, license and about. All three are optionaly. + +**source** and **source_url** should be used to indicate where the underlying data came from. + +**license** and **license_url** should be used to indicate the license under which the data can be used. + +**about** and **about_url** can be used to link to further information about the project - an accompanying blog entry for example. + +For each of these you can provide just the ``*_url`` field and Datasette will treat that as the default link label text and display the URL directly on the page. + Specifying units for a column -----------------------------