CKAN & Open Data

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CKAN & Open Data

We have completely changed the way we think about data.

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.

We build secure and reliable data portals.

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Why CKAN?

The CKAN data management platform is open source, free, and (user) community led. It is used by numerous governments, organisations and communities all around the world to make their data discoverable. Being open source means there are no license fees, and you retain all rights to the data and metadata you enter.

A focal point for maximising data asset utility.

Concentrated attention and quality review checkpoints both during initial dataset registration and ongoing dataset updates.

Existing data management systems can interface directly, over a secure API endpoint.

Controlled vocabularies improve metadata quality, improving 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.

Let your data tell the stories.

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Features

Link Digital is the trusted and leading CKAN service provider for end-to-end data publishing on CKAN.

API

CKAN’s Action API is a powerful, RPC-style API that exposes all of CKAN’s core features to API clients.

DataStore

The CKAN DataStore extension provides an ad hoc database for storage of structured data from CKAN resources.

Geospatial

Extensions provide advanced geospatial features, covering data preview, search, and discovery. Ability to preview where structured data with location information is.

Metadata

A CKAN portal provides a rich set of metadata for each dataset.

Visualisation

CKAN’s data previewing tool has a host of powerful features for previewing data stored in the DataStore.

Publish and manage data

An intuitive web interface allows publishers and curators to easily register, update and refine datasets.

Search and discovery

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

FileStore allows users to upload data and image files.

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