Showcase specification

This Pull Request refers to issue #64.

Please use this Pull Request for discussion related to the new CKAN 'Showcase' feature (aka, Related Items). **DO NOT MERGE** until the spec has settled (likely when the feature is released).
Hi, just a comment as a relatively new CKAN user and observer of this conversation.

Our use case is as an institutional data repository, to encourage and enable our researches to publish/share the data they produce.  As it is early days for us we have not utilised ‘Related’ Items, apart from in our early testing when we did link some related websites to datasets.  However it became clear there were things that needed to be resolved (hence this issue on github).

For our use, ‘Apps’ alone would not be a very ‘accessible’ word – to me,  in the average person’s minds it means little programs that run on your phone.

However, receiving feedback/notification/information about how others are using our data is very valuable and attractive to us – in reporting back to Government on how our work is making a difference on the ground, (good) real examples of data being used for a variety of purpose (be that apps, reports, websites, software models, other research, policy decisions …) are like gold nuggets to us. Thus we don’t want to have any barriers to people telling us about what they’ve been up to, and my view would be that simply having a button called ‘Apps’ would severely limit what and who might report on a reuse.

Another consideration is that no matter what word you use, just a button with that word may not intuitively encourage people to report reuse (they might think the button will list how others have done, not realising it is also asking them to report how they have).  So they may need to be led in that respect somehow (invitation to do so on the ‘Show Case’ page, message pops up if they download a dataset encouraging them to report how they re-use if they do...).

Regards
Aaron

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