Make Open Data discoverable for search engines
Note: this is a crosspost, originally published on the Liip Blog. Open Data portals are a great way to discover datasets and present them to the public. But they lack interoperability and it’s thus even harder to search across them. Imagine if you’re looking for a dataset it’s just a simple “google search” away. Historically...
Starting work towards the upcoming 2.8 release
The tech team has started the process for stabilizing the upcoming 2.8 release. In practical terms this means a new dev-v2.8 branch that will eventually become the released version. Over the next following weeks we need as much testing as possible to ensure we catch any issues. To give 2.8 beta a try you can...Latest CKAN patch releases now available
We are happy to announce that the new patch releases for 2.5.x, 2.6.x and 2.7.x are now available to download and install (2.5.8, 2.6.5 and 2.7.3). These patch releases fix important bugs and security issues, so users should upgrade as soon as possible to the latest patch release for the CKAN version they are using. Patch release upgrades are very straight-forward and do not contain any...
Introducing ckanext-validation: data validation and reporting integrated in CKAN
Note: this is an adapted piece from an article originally published in the Frictionless Data website Context One of the main goals of the Frictionless Data project is to help improve data quality by providing easy to integrate libraries and services for data validation. We have integrated data validation seamlessly with different backends like GitHub...
Call for Contributions: ckanext-datapackager Extension
If you have been following the Frictionless Data Project, and especially, taken note of the release of V1 specifications for Data Packages, then you'll know that the initiative and growing body of work represents a significant 'hook' for CKAN itself. Bridging a gap between the authoritative publishing of datasets, resources and their machine readable endpoints for a...
Express Loader for CKAN DataStore
Today we're launching Express Loader - an enhanced way to load data into CKAN's DataStore. Data is loaded 10 times as fast as the existing DataPusher. It's more robust and has a simpler architecture. More and more CKAN sites are offering their CSV data using DataStore, which provides users with an excellent data API. However...Latest CKAN patch releases now available
We are happy to announce that the new patch releases for CKAN 2.4.x, 2.5.x, 2.6.x and 2.7.x are now available to download and install (2.4.9, 2.5.7, 2.6.4 and 2.7.1 2.7.2). Update: We found a small issue with 2.7.1 (missing minified JavaScript files) and we have repackaged it as 2.7.2. All sources are now updated, please...
Do you know how your Open Data is being used?
Measuring the Performance of the Western PA Regional Data Center by David Walker Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center is a shared open data project established in 2015 to make public information more accessible and useful in the Pittsburgh region. It was created in 2015, and is managed by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban...