Your partner for CKAN-driven data success in your organisation
The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network or CKAN is an open source data management system that simplifies the process of publishing, sharing, and working with your data. It can be used for both open data portals and internal data hubs.
CKAN allows users to catalog, store, and access datasets. It features a user-friendly front end, a comprehensive API for both data and catalog management, visualization tools, and much more.
And we have stopped asking ‘why’ data should be shared and are instead asking ‘how’. The importance of data—its social, economic, and environmental benefits—has led to the understanding that data needs to be opened up to its full potential.
CKAN is a tool that enables this publishing pathway. Think of a content management system like WordPress, but for data. A means of making data more discoverable, more accessible, and open to deeper and independent analysis, even beyond its original purpose.
The CKAN data management platform is open source, free, and user community led.
Being open source means there are no license fees, and you retain all rights to the data and metadata you enter.
It has been adopted by numerous governments, organisations and communities around the world to make their data more discoverable.
A focal point for maximising data asset utility.
Concentrated attention and quality review checkpoints during both the initial dataset registration and ongoing dataset updates.
Existing data management systems can interface directly, over a secure API endpoint.
Controlled vocabularies improve metadata quality, and search and access paths.
Greater visibility and access to enterprise wide data assets.
Data remains valued in it’s local and primary use context while gaining attributes which make it readily available for multiple reuse scenarios.
Data access and discovery will improve as each data source is connected.
Continuous data investment and return cycles.
CKAN’s Action API is a powerful, RPC-style API that exposes all of CKAN’s core features to API clients.
The CKAN DataStore extension provides an ad hoc database for storage of structured data from CKAN resources.
Extensions provide advanced geospatial features, covering data preview, search, and discovery. Ability to preview where structured data with location information is.
A CKAN portal provides a rich set of metadata for each dataset.
CKAN’s data previewing tool has a host of powerful features for previewing data stored in the DataStore.
An intuitive web interface allows publishers and curators to easily register, update and refine datasets.
CKAN provides a rich search experience which allows for quick ‘Google-style’ keyword search as well as faceting by tags and browsing between related datasets.
FileStore allows users to upload data and image files.