CKAN is an open source data portal platform that is widely used around the world. It provides features like publishing and managing datasets and metadata, powerful search and API access, support for standards like DCAT, and extensive customization options. CKAN is developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation and a team of developers, with deployments in governments and organizations to make their data accessible and usable.
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CKAN - the open source data portal platform
1. CKAN
Open Source
Data Portal Platform
Maurizio Napolitano <maurizio.napolitano@okfn.org>
based on the presentation of Rufus Pollock – Director of OKFN - http://rufuspollock.org/
3. CKAN
Widely Used
Open-Source
Powerful and Flexible
Open-Source = Autonomy, Zero Lock-In,
Customizability
team of around 11 developers with 7 FTE developers, 6 CKAN partner
providers in addition to Open Knowledge Foundation
11. Add and edit dataset metadata
through an easy-to-use interface
• Add title, url, license etc
• Add data files and resources
• Group and tag your dataset,
making it easier to find through
browsing
• add maintainer, source and
contact details
• create custom additional fields
22. Standards Support and Federation
• We support DCat (and helped define it!). Run the IATI Registry.
• Sophisticated harvesting and federation
allows interoperability and metadata sharing between
catalogs
• E.g. publicdata.eu harvests over 15 EU catalogs into one central
portal
37. Easily Add Custom Content + Pages
• Datasets by default support a rich-text content field where
content can be added
• Easy to add new content and dynamic pages
• Can integrate with third-party CMS such as Drupal (this has
been done extensively)
• Solution includes a full extension framework for adding
new functionality and pages to the system
40. Multilingual Content
Support for
• Multilingual search
• Consistent navigation and labeling of multilingual
datasets
• Dataset information (metadata) in multiple languages
• Per dataset specification of primary language
46. Secure and Extensively "Road-tested"
• Penetration tested by government
• In production deployments for governments
and others for 3+ years
• Built on standard, widely used open-source
components
47. Multiple deployment and support options
• Solutions development and deployment
support from multiple providers
• Hosted, SLA'd SaaS provision from core
development team
• On the ground training and technical
assistance for your own deployments
• Flexible support contracts
48. Thanks!
Visit us to http://okfn.org
… and our projects http://okfn.org/projects/
– The Open Definition –
http://www.opendefinition.org
– Open Data Handbook –
http://www.opendatahandbook.org
– CKAN – http://ckan.org
– OpenSpending - http://openspending.org/
– …. OKFN Labs http://okfnlabs.org/
About the speaker:
Twitter @napo
Blog http://de.straba.us