Conversion cockpit

Conversion cockpit is a metaphor that refers to the directories from which you should perform conversions.

Conversion cockpit directories contain the following directories:

• source/
• manual/
• automatic/
• publish/

They also contain the script that could be considered the conversion trigger:

• convert-*.sh

The bin/publish/*.sh scripts should be run from conversion cockpit directories.

Conversion cockpit directories are situated within the source/, dataset/, version/ hierarchy that corresponds to how datasets are named. For more information, see conversion process phase: name. Example conversion cockpit directories include:

/source/epa-gov/dataset/air-quality-system/version/2011-Jan-31/
/Users/timrdf/Desktop/source/epa-gov/dataset/air-quality-system/version/2011-Jan-31/

/source/census-gov/dataset/census-2011/version/2011-Jan-31/
/Users/timrdf/Desktop/source/census-gov/dataset/census-2011/version/2011-Jan-31/

The goofy /Users/timrdf/Desktop examples are used to demonstrate that the stuff before source/ does not matter. You get to put it where you want, and you can have multiples hanging around different places.

See also Directory Conventions.