CKAN: open source data catalog

CKANOpen Source

Open Data Catalog

based on an presentation of Irina Bolychevsky and Rufus Pollock

Maurizio Napolitano<maurizio.napolitano@okfn.org>

Conferenza OpenGeoData Italia 201 – Rome 27 February 2013

A not-for-profit organisation promoting openness in all its forms.

Progress through community engagement - organise events to bring people together.

We have projects and partnerships throughout the world, especially in Europe.

The Open Knowledge Foundation

We build tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge - content and data that everyone can use, share and build on.

Aim to improve governance, research and the economy.

Introduction

Publishing and Authoring

Including Data Upload and Metadata Management

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

Resource editor allows you to add additional information to each data file

Full Change History

Moderated Edits + Customizable Workflow

Search, APIand Metadata Standards

Keyword and faceted search via web interface and API

Search Example

Using Faceting and tags

Using Faceting and tags

Geo-search - filter by location

Full Catalog API providing read, write and

query access to dataset metadata and much more

• 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

Standards Support and Federation

Viewing, Sharing, Displaying and Social Media Features

Extensive visualisation & data explorer functionality including graphing and mapping data

Data explorer allows filtering, editing, plotting, graphing and embedding

Resource view page - data explorer graph view

• Comments• Like and share this• RSS/Atom Feeds• Follow

Numerous social and community features

Add Apps, Ideas and more related to the data

Extendible with plugins

Administrationand

Analytics

Fine-grained Authorisation & Access Control

Add and edit permissions for users and publisher groups per dataset

Stats & analytics: inbuilt + integration with Google Analytics

Stats and ratings include:

• numbers of views• resource downloads

• 5 star openness ratings

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THANKS