Link Digital delivered a tailored CKAN data and statistics platform to improve the internal data organisation and search capacities of the design department of a major university in northwestern Europe.
The department delivers a wide range of bachelor’s, master’s, associate degree, and minor programs in applied sciences, and includes a variety of hands-on educational and research opportunities, many of them taught in English for international students.
The department needed to improve its internal data organization and search capabilities, making a large array of Power BI dashboards and online resources more discoverable for its internal staff and students.
Link Digital was engaged to implement a CKAN-based platform for the university design department and deploy it in the university’s existing Azure environment.
The CKAN implementation hosts metadata but no datasets and is instead used to aggregate and simplify access to a large array of Power BI dashboards and on-line resources hosted by the department, making them more discoverable internally within the university. Link Digital was able to create landing pages within the portal, to enable users to search for these dashboards and resources by category, i.e., students, finance, research, personnel, etc.
Clicking on a landing page takes the users to the dashboards and resources specific to that topic, then enables them to move back easily to the main portal page, for an improved user experience. The portal also includes:
