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2013 - A great year for CKAN

Darwin Peltan
20 Dec 2013
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2013 has seen CKAN and the CKAN community go from strength to strength. Here are some of the highlights.

February

The beta of CKAN 2.0 was released with a much improved user interface and many new features.
The European Union's CKAN-powered open data portal, open-data.europa.eu, was also launched in beta.
publicdata.eu was upgraded to CKAN 2.0
Launch of Aragón Open Data, an attractive portal for the Spanish region of Aragón

May

The US Government’s open data portal data.gov was relaunched based on CKAN 2.0
CKAN 2.0 released, with completely redesigned theming and authorisation, news feeds and activity streams, more previews, and much more
The State of South Australia uses CKAN to launch their open data portal - data.sa.gov.au

June

The Canadian Government relaunch their open data portal powered by CKAN - data.gc.ca

July

CKAN adds the ability to preview GeoJSON data

August

CKAN 2.1 released with new capabilities for managing bulk datasets amongst many other improvements

September

Launch of Bermuda.io, a community data portal in Bermuda, by two local developers
Swiss open data portal launched by new CKAN partner Liip
Another new CKAN partner, Ontodia, launch PediaCities with a CKAN catalogue
The Data.gov.uk team launch "Data.gov.uk to go" to make it easier to reuse the code behind data.gov.uk

October

Substantial new version of CKAN's geospatial extension, including pycsw and MapBox integration and revised and expanded docs.

November

Future City Glasgow launch open.glasgow.gov.uk prototype as part of their TSB funded Future Cities Demonstrator programme

December

Japan launches beta of their open data portal data.go.jp
OKF Belgium release an integration between CKAN and The DataTank
France launches data.gouv.fr based on CKAN

Looking forward

The CKAN community is growing incredibly quickly so we're looking forward to seeing what people do with CKAN in 2014. So if your city, region or state hasn’t already done so, why not make 2014 the year that you launch your own CKAN powered open data portal? Download CKAN or contact us if you need help getting started.