Currently, CKAN implicitly has four distinct components: Frontend — a component for all the “read” functionality e.g. displaying datasets, organisations etc; searching for datasets. Admin UI — for creating and editing datasets etc. API (logic layer) — the API for storing metadata and data and carrying out all the other operations needed by the Frontend […]
Author: Rufus Pollock

The following is a transcript of a Q&A with Datopian Founder and President Rufus Pollock about the vision for Datopian over the long-term. Key Takeaway We think there is a huge opportunity around data management in general. Because today data management is a mess inside many enterprises. We want to help solve that mess, to […]

April 23, 2020 by Rufus Pollock Once upon a time, more and more organizations such as enterprises, governments, and NGOs had more and more data from more and more sources, both internal and external. They knew (or felt) that it must be valuable … if only they could work out how to unlock that value. […]
CKAN: Some Ideas for the Road Ahead
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Once Upon a Time in Data Land
November 23, 2018 by Rufus Pollock Once upon a time, more and more organizations (enterprises, governments, NGOs) had more and more data from more and more sources (internal and external). They knew/felt that it must be valuable if only they could work out how to extract value – find the relevant data, integrate it reliably, […]