CKAN

An introduction to the open data management system, CKAN.

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1. Rae Knowler Liip Techtalk, 12th February 2015 1
2. What is CKAN? 2
3. CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. ckan.org/ 3
4. OGD@Bund (http://opendata.admin.ch) 4
5. Python backend, JavaScript frontend - Framework: Pylons - ORM: SQLAlchemy - Database engine: PostgreSQL - Search: Solr - Templates: Jinja2 5 Technical basis
6. What is Open Data? 6
7. Data ... 7 - any kind - from governments - from research and science - from businesses - ...
8. … that's Open 8 - accessible - free - reusable / remixable
9. The Five Stars of Open Data 9 Tim Berners-Lee (image source)
10. 10 Andreas Amsler (image source)
11. Why use CKAN? 11
12. Well, what happens when you don't? 12 - "If only we could get the statistics for this…" - "Not another scanned-in PDF!" - "Do you have the hard drive with our results on it? … No, the other hard drive?"
13. CKAN lets you ... - upload any kind of file - from anywhere - with a sensible metadata system - track metadata history - publish data, easily - preview it - share it 13
14. Who uses CKAN? 14
15. The Natural History Museum, UK (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research- curation/research/informatics/creating-digital-infrastructure-science/data-portal/index.html) 15
16. data.gov.uk 16
17. CKAN features 17
18. Open Source - No tool lock-in - No need to rely on the core devs for features - All the other advantages of Open Source! 18
19. Federation of data sources - Federation of data sources - Can store data within CKAN itself - Search all the databases! 19
20. Super searching - Solr for full-text search - Facetted search - Tags and groups for datasets - Related material 20
21. Groups and organisations - Organise datasets by source and topic - Privilege control for users 21
22. API - RESTful JSON API - Well-documented - All features of web interface - Access dataset statistics - Get RDF version of the catalogue - CSV / JSON dump of catalogue - ... 22
23. Plus ... - Responsive design - Data preview - Geospatial features - Customisable - Extensible 23
24. CKAN extensions 24
25. Add comments 25
26. Google Analytics 26
27. QA checker (including the 5 stars) 27
28. Harvesting https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-harvest - Harvest datasets from any CKAN instance - Basis for further extensions to harvest data from anywhere 28
29. Harvesting to a local and a central CKAN instance 29
30. http://extensions.ckan.org/ 30
31. CKAN at Liip 31
32. OGD@Bund (http://opendata.admin.ch) 32
33. Open Data Zürich (https://data.integ.stadt-zuerich.ch/) 33
34. ORD@CH (http://openresearchdata.ch) 34
35. The CKAN community 35
36. The Open Knowledge Foundation - UK-based non-profit organisation - Manages CKAN development - Employs full-time dev team 36
37. Everyone else! - Other contributors are welcome - Useful mailing lists: - https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ckan- global-user-group - Good issues for contribution: - https://github.com/ckan/ckan/labels/Good%20for% 20Contribution 37
38. CKANCon 2014, Berlin 38
39. Useful links 39
40. - http://ckan.org - http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/ - https://github.com/liip/ckan-vagrant - Vagrant box for CKAN development 40 Useful Links
41. Thanks! 41