In Category on 19 Oct 2026
How Greece built its national data portal on CKAN
data.gov.gr now holds 22,000+ datasets from 510+ public bodies, with DCAT-AP metadata, quality scores and harvesting into data.europa.eu
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The CKAN 3.0 team is formed! Welcome to Dragan and Svetozar!
We are excited to announce that a new CKAN 3.0 taskforce has been formed, with the addition of two team members from Datopian - Dragan and Svetozar. Both Dragan and Svetozar are highly skilled backend/CKAN developers and have joined CKAN Project on a long-term basis. They will work closely with the technical lead, Anuar, and product owner, Alex Gostev, to form the CKAN 3.0 team.
We are excited to announce that a new CKAN 3.0 taskforce has been formed, with the addition of two team members from Datopian! Please welcome Dragan and Svetozar! Both Dragan and Svetozar are highly skilled backend/CKAN developers and have joined CKAN Project on a long-term basis. They will work closely with the technical lead, Anuar Ustayev, and product owner, Alex Gostev, to form the CKAN 3.0 team.
What's next?
The CKAN 3.0 team will have regular meetings and work actively towards the goal of developing CKAN 3.0 - a goal we're truly passionate about. They will start with researching adding a capability to be working with graph databases to cover the gap we have for EU clients. This is just the beginning of what we hope will be a long and fruitful work!
We're thrilled to have Dragan and Svetozar on board and can't wait to see their contributions!
Stay tuned for more updates!
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