Announcing the data.world Extension Public Release for CKAN
ckanext-datadotworld allows data portal admins to automatically share published datasets to data.world. By establishing a data.world profile and linking your data, you give your data consumers additional capabilities on data.world including the ability to: Execute SQL and SPARQL queries without needing to create a database Join datasets from many different sources and of different file...
CKAN Extensions: ClimateTagger
CKAN has a huge Extension library. Being open source, its extensions are contributed by the CKAN community worldwide and are all available on GitHub. Some of the extensions are aimed at simplifying the work with massive datasets, and the Climate Tagger developed by the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) and the Renewable Energy and...
New website: Call for Case Studies
We’re excited to announce that our new and refreshed CKAN website is now live! What's changed? The menu bar now has a more intuitive navigation with drop-down menus for both mobile and desktop versions. We now have a broader 'About' menu for you to get a clear idea of what the CKAN Association does as well as...
New CKAN patch releases now available
We are happy to announce that the new patch releases for CKAN 2.4.x, 2.5.x and 2.6.x are now available to download and install (2.4.7, 2.5.5 and 2.6.2). A special thanks to Sergey Motornyuk from Link Digital and Konstantin Sivakov from Viderum for their help in preparing these releases! These patch releases fix important bugs and...
CKAN 2.6.0 released, patch versions for 2.3.x, 2.4.x and 2.5.x available
We are happy to announce that CKAN 2.6.0 is now released. In addition, new patch releases for older versions of CKAN are now available to download and install. CKAN 2.6 The 2.6.0 release includes improvements on how private datasets are shown on search results, as well as several other minor improvements and over 50 bug...
Link Digital’s Enterprise CKAN Stack for AWS is Now Available on GitHub
As part of the commitment made at the White House Open Data Roundtable, Datashades, also trading as Link Digital, has recently released the preview of an Enterprise CKAN Stack for AWS. The stack presents Link Digital’s best practice, with independently scalable layers, easily adapted to CI workflows and automated system maintenance. It is now freely...
Registration Open for CKANCon and Call for Speakers Closing This Friday
We are less than two months from CKANCon 2016, an official pre-event of this year's International Open Data Conference, taking place in Madrid October 4! As our community continues to grow rapidly, CKANCon will be a great opportunity to learn more about what others are doing with CKAN, and how you can use it in your...
Join us for CKANCon 2016!
Join us in Madrid, Spain on October 4th, for CKANCon 2016, one of the official International Open Data Conference Pre-Events. UPDATE: We are happy to announce that registration for the event is now open! You can register today for both in person and online participation! CKANCon is a day packed with talks and discussions showcasing...