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The first CKAN Extensions Demo Day brought together developers and practitioners to showcase practical enhancements for CKAN-based data portals. Each extension directly addresses common operational challenges—improving usability, security, metadata management, and user interaction.
When we talk about data portals, we usually focus on their role in collecting and cataloguing data, improving its quality and making it more discoverable and shareable. But even with the very best data portal, it can still just be data sitting on a site.
From fragmented spreadsheets to actionable insights—how NRC leverages CKAN’s open-source power for better decision-making in crisis response.
CKAN sites can now easily expose their datasets to ML pipelines with the help of the newly released croissant plugin.
Discover how the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is using CKAN to streamline humanitarian data management, improve collaboration, and enhance data accessibility for field teams across 40+ countries.
Join the CKAN Extensions Demo Day on March 19 and showcase your CKAN extension in a live demo! Get visibility, attract users, and connect with contributors. Sign up now!
The CKAN Core Dev Team is tackling recent challenges with GitHub Actions caused by the switch to non-root images, while enhancing workflows for building, testing, and deploying. With a mix of quick fixes and long-term improvements, the focus is on keeping development experience smooth and reliable.
The new patch releases include important bug and security fixes, so users should upgrade as soon as possible to the latest patch release for the CKAN version they are using.