CKAN is open source data portal software that allows users to publish, share, and find data through a rich search interface. It provides tools to add and edit dataset metadata through a simple user interface, allows customization through extensions, and supports features like geospatial search, visualization, and analytics. CKAN also enables interoperability between data catalogs through its harvesting mechanism and supports multilingual interfaces in over 18 languages.
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CKAN 際際滷deck (June2012)
1. CKAN Tour & 際際滷deck
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
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
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
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
Editor's Notes
#2: Open Knowledge Foundation Problem + Solution LOD2 / FP7 + PublicData.eu Built on CKAN software PublicData.eu walkthrough DataCatalogs