ckan: open source data catalog
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Presentation about CKANTRANSCRIPT
CKANOpen Source
Open Data Catalog
based on an presentation of Irina Bolychevsky and Rufus Pollock
Maurizio Napolitano<[email protected]>
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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