1. CKAN Tour & Slidedeck
Irina Bolychevsky
Product Manager
@shevski
2. The Open Knowledge Foundation
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.
We build tools and communities to
create, use and share open
knowledge - content and data that every
one can use, share and build on.
Aim to improve governance, research
and the economy.
3. CKAN
Open source data portal software that
makes it easy to publish, share and find
data.
• Rich search and data publishing tools
• Integrated data storage, processing, viewing and
visualization
• Geospatial metadata & search (including support for
INSPIRE)
• Extensible and flexible: easy to adapt, extend and
integrate
• Componentized structure with variety of add-ons: stats,
analytics, datastore & data API, social etc
• Rich restful JSON API
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5. Add dataset form
• Unique URLs for datasets
• Clear licensing
• Upload or link to data
6. Add and edit dataset metadata through a simple user
interface, allowing you to:
• add further resources/files
• group and tag your dataset, making it easier to find through
browsing
• add maintainer, source and contact details
• create custom additional fields
20. CKAN resource preview can plot data on a map
using Latitude and Longitude or GeoJSON
21. Extensive visualisation & data explorer functionality:
• Previews for many types of data
• Data API for .csv & tabular data
• Linkable URIs and ability to embed visualisations
26. CKAN comes with stats on:
• numbers of views
• resource downloads
• edits
• 5 star openness ratings
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28. Our sophisticated harvesting mechanism
allows interoperability between catalogs
• working on defining a standard metadata spec
• CKAN supports DCAT + Dublin Core
• publicdata.eu harvests over 15 EU catalogs into one
central portal
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31. CKAN is fully documented - meaning it can be easily
extended, customised and independently supported
35. Language & Multilingualism
CKAN portal interfaces are
available in over 18
languages and fully
support international
characters
36. Language & Multilingualism
Significant recent developments on this front.
• Multilingual search
• Consistant navigation and labeling of multilingual
datasets
• Dataset information (metadata) in multiple languages
• Per dataset specification of primary language
Notas do Editor
Open Knowledge Foundation Problem + Solution LOD2 / FP7 + PublicData.eu Built on CKAN software PublicData.eu walkthrough DataCatalogs