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CKAN Tour & Slidedeck

Irina BolychevskyProduct Manager@shevski

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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.

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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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Add dataset form• Unique URLs for datasets• Clear licensing• Upload or link to data

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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

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Resource editor allows you to add additional information to data files themselves:

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Example dataset

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

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Example dataset with enabled social features (share, comments and Related Stuff) and download counts

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Numerous social and community features

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Authorisation & access control

Add and edit permissions for groups (all datasets belonging to a publisher) or by individual dataset

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Keyword as well as faceted search provided via web interface and API

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Search Example

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Search Example

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Using Faceting and tags

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Several sophisticated geospatial capabilities

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Geo-search - filter by location

CKAN supports WMS previews, INSPIRE, GeoJSON

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CKAN resource preview can plot data on a map using Latitude and Longitude or GeoJSON 

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Extensive visualisation & data explorer functionality:• Previews for many types of data• Data API for .csv & tabular data• Linkable URIs and ability to embed visualisations 

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

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Resource view page - data explorer grid view

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Resource view page - data explorer graph view

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Stats & analytics: inbuilt + integration with Google Analytics

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CKAN comes with stats on:• numbers of views• resource downloads• edits• 5 star openness ratings

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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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CKAN is fully documented - meaning it can be easily extended, customised and independently supported

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... dozens of CKAN deployments around the world

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One of the latest themed CKAN instances:

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Language & Multilingualism

CKAN portal interfaces are available in over 18 languages and fully support international characters

 

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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 

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