1. CKAN
Open Government Data Camp
Warsaw 2011
James Gardner
james.gardner@okfn.org

3. 1. Why
(in the open government data
context, of course)

4. Direct benefits for
government...
● Transparency agenda
● FOI Requests
● Pre-empt nagging from citizens
Biggest benefits for the
consumer...

5. Open Data Lets You Get
Answers to Questions

6. What was the
concentration
of Carbon Dioxide in the
atmosphere
10,000 years ago?

12. Open Data Lets You Get
Answers to Questions
Consumer Business Government
Improvement and Economic Benefits

13. Analyse the data found
Google Refine
R Statistics
OpenOffice Calc
(Spreadsheet)

14. A World of Open
Data Built on Open
Source

15. Gold Prices

16. Gold Prices

17. Apps

18. Apps

19. Apps

20. Benefits of CKAN for Government
● Provides a platform for government to publish
and maintain information about their data
● Allows all the data to be grouped in one place so
that it can be found by the public, other
government departments, scientists, institutions
etc
● Makes it possible for communities to form -
armchair auditors, data journalists and interested
parties can collaborate
CKAN is open source software

21. Summary...
Publish
Find
Collaborate

22. 2. Features

23. Publishing

24. Geospatial

25. Rich API
Example:
curl http://thedatahub.
org/api/rest/dataset/gold-prices
● Also the Logic Layer
● Harvesting (Discovery Metadata Service)

27. Everyone
is
different

29. 3. Ecosystem

33. 4. Who

34. CKAN instances around the world

36. Data.gov.uk

37. 5. Team
6. Questions
7. Workshop
james.gardner@okfn.org
twitter: @ckanproject

38. 7. Workshop
2pm this afternoon
● Install CKAN on EC2 or your dev
machine
● Set up Extensions
● Customise the theme
+ Whatever else you want us to
show you or help with

39. Attributions
● http://www.flickr.
com/photos/ameninadosolhos/2262384558/sizes/l/in/photos
tream/