In Category on 08 Jun 2026
What CKAN Made Possible: A Sixteen-Year Open Data Story
From NYCBigApps to federal metadata standards — Joel Natividad's story of why CKAN's real value was never the portal
The CKAN team are oragnising a talk, a workshop and a sprint at the forthcoming PyCon UK conference in Coventry this weekend.
We plan to divide the CKAN slot into two parts:
- Talk - 30 mins description of what open data is all about, how CKAN can help and the technical background around how we use Python and support extensions
- Workshop - 20 mins helping people to get up and running with their own instance (perhaps adding some data and changing the theme too if there is time)
The Sprint will run from 14:20 on Saturday until 5pm on Monday and we'll be concentrating on:
- Geospatial features
- Our "webstore" for hosting data
If you are coming to the conference feel free to drop in.
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In Category on 21 May 2026
CKAN in the Age of AI: A Call for Agnosticism and Provenance
CKAN co-steward Steven De Costa makes the case for CKAN as the trusted data foundation for AI — providing provenance, machine operability, and the cold reasoning that keeps AI outputs grounded in reality.