Government Working Group
The CKAN Association Government Working Group is focused on governments using CKAN for their open data portal and how they can collaborate on a wide variety of issues from policy to source code.
- Who can participate: Participation is limited to governments and public sector organizations in order to give participants full freedom of discussion.
- Meetings: Meetings will primarily be virtual (phone/online) and a maximum of once a month.
- Purpose: The group is informal and is aimed to facilitate information sharing and learning among governments.
Current Governing Committee
data.gov.au is managed by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. It provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from Government.
Government of Canada is working to create greater transparency and accountability, increase citizen engagement, and drive innovation and economic opportunities through open data.
Data.gov is managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration, is powered by two open source applications, CKAN and WordPress, and it is developed publicly on GitHub.
Join the Group
If you are interested in participating in the Government Working Group please email: wg-gov@ckan.org
Important: there is no formal commitment in joining the working group. It is an informal information sharing group.
Desired Outcomes
- Coordinate development activities for governments using CKAN to create better services and interoperability
- Increase efficiency for CKAN development
- Ensure developers, intermediaries, and governments using CKAN contribute to and use the open source software via Github
- Share learnings and best practice
Participation may include
- Joining online discussions
- Attending virtual meetings
- Helping to prioritize government needs for CKAN
- Sharing understanding and learnings based on experience with open data programs generally and CKAN particularly
Participants
- Individuals from various levels of government (such as city, provincial, and national) are encouraged to participate
Current Governing Committee
- Australia, Canada, United States
Suggested Topics of Discussion
- Tools and services in use with CKAN
- Expressing data quality and interoperability
- Five-star openness rating
- Vocabularies and taxonomies
- Integrating datasets from multiple departments, cities, and sectors together
- Geospatial data issues
- Linked data examples
- The human element in managing, federating, and aggregating data
