CKANOpen Source

Data Portal Platform 

based on the presentation of Rufus Pollock – Director of OKFN - http://rufuspollock.org/

Maurizio Napolitano <maurizio.napolitano@okfn.org>

Introduction

CKANCKAN

Widely UsedOpen-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

Dozens of CKAN deployments around the world

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

Example dataset on http://dados.gov.br/

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

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

Web Page Management

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

Easy to Theme and Customize Appearance

Internationalization & Multilingualism

Interfaces are available in over 18 languages.

Fully support international characters

Support for

• Multilingual search

• Consistent navigation and labeling of multilingual datasets

• Dataset information (metadata) in multiple languages

• Per dataset specification of primary language 

Multilingual Content

Technical issues

The core system

Harvesting functions

to manage the python scripts ...

Views

and/or integration with some cms

Security and Hosting

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 

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

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 @napoBlog http://de.straba.us