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 […]
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Effective data management is crucial for public administrations, who collect large amounts of diverse data on a daily basis. They differ from other data-collecting organizations in the sense that the data they produce arguably can have more impact outside of the organisation than it can inside it. Open data, i.e. the provision of administrative data […]
July 10, 2020 by Annabel van Daalen This article is a summary of an interview between Rufus Pollock and Richard Pietro for the podcast series Stories from the Open Gov. Rufus tells the story of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s journey, from its founding to its future. Click here to listen to the full podcast. TIP […]
June 16, 2020 by Annabel van Daalen and Irio Musskopf, with graphics by Monika Popova Last month, we announced the launch of a new CKAN feature developed by Datopian that allows users to subscribe to datasets. This is an opt-in feature that sends users an email notification when a dataset to which they are subscribed […]
June 5, 2020 by Audrey Lobo-Pulo As Open Data Northern Ireland (NI) roll out their new strategy focusing on more open data publications in the civil service and better community outcomes, the future for Open Government in NI looks bright with Datopian at their side. Our CEO, Paul Walsh, speaks to our clients Iain Fleming […]
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Release: Subscribe to CKAN datasets
April 28, 2020 by Irio Musskopf We are releasing a new service where people can get notified when datasets change. We believe we can build better products through collaboration. Following past examples, we are now open-sourcing a new project: Data Subscriptions. With Data Subscriptions, you can deploy CKAN instances and allow users to get notified […]
March 31, 2020 by Paul Walsh Our colleagues at the Open Knowledge Foundation announced the Joint Stewardship of Frictionless Data in December 2019. Some of that announcement post is below, and I also wanted to give some more context on this and how it relates to our work at Datopian going forward. Several of us […]
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CKAN: Some Ideas for the Road Ahead
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May 23, 2017 by Sebastian Moleski We are happy to announce that CKAN is now available under the G-Cloud 9 framework. This special program creating a digital marketplace for cloud-based solutions was created by the UK government to implement its “cloud first” strategy. G-Cloud 9 makes procurement of cloud solutions simple and transparent. Check out […]
January 23, 2017 by Nikolas Becker Open data service provider Viderum is working with Energinet.dk, the gas and electricity operator in Denmark, to share near real-time access to Danish energy data. Using CKAN, an open-source platform for sharing data originally developed by Open Knowledge International, Energinet.dk’s Energy DataStore will be the first transmission system operator […]