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When the visitors aren’t human: What rising bot traffic means for your data portal

Over the past several months we have watched a clear shift in the traffic reaching the sites and portals we work with. A growing share...

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From open data to verifiable honesty: An experiment you can look at

For many years the promise of open data was simple: make your data public, make it shareable, and good things follow. I still believe this....

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Getting ahead of the deadline to upgrade your Drupal capability

While the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network or CKAN is vital to Link Digital’s work on data catalogues and open data platforms, we often use it...

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Making the move to managed CKAN hosting: How it worked for the Columbia Basin Water Hub

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network – CKAN – is the world’s leading open source data portal software. While it is free and has native out...

Andrew Nette Andrew Nette
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From Data Storage to Machine-Ready Intelligence

From Data Storage to Machine-Ready Intelligence: Welcome to Your Modern Data Portal

While the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network – CKAN provides world-leading infrastructure for data management, overcoming the persistent discovery gap in open data portals is the...

Kate Sampher Kate Sampher
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The Honest Series #1: Does the system lie to itself? The Theory of Complex Systems

In data science, algorithmic design, and institutional governance, the pursuit of perfection is increasingly treated as a necessary virtue. Modern systems are routinely optimised to...

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