This post will look at the data management challenges facing governments and the key reasons why open source technology is best placed to meet them.
Actions are essentially the API endpoints or operations that can be performed within the CKAN system. Actions can be categorised into several groups. Read more.
SDE is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use approach for data custodians to manage the complete lifecycle of their data across multiple departments, organisational branches, and internal and external users, in a controlled access environment.
Each Blueprint functions like a mini application that can be registered with the main Flask application. This modular approach helps in organising code, reducing redundancy, and improving maintainability.
This toolkit provides a structured way to develop plugins that can enhance the core behaviour, extend the data model, add new features, or integrate CKAN with other systems.
This post explores why governments might consider CKAN, an open-source platform, over proprietary alternatives like Socrata.