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 […]
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 […]
As the CKAN community grows and includes more people from various backgrounds it seems like a good time to adopt a Code of Conduct that will ensure it remains a welcoming place for everybody. The Code of Conduct can be accessed on the main CKAN repository: https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/CONDUCT.rst Rather than trying to come up with a […]
CKAN is a powerful open-source data portal platform which provides out-of-the-box tools that allow data producers to make data easily accessible and reusable by everyone. Making CKAN as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has been a key factor in helping grow the availability and accessibility of open data across the Internet. The emergence of […]
Florian Mayer from the Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife presents various methods he is using to create Wisdom. Data+Code = Information; Information + Context = Wisdom So, can this be done with workbooks, applications and active documents? As Florian might say, “Yes it CKAN”! Grab the code and materials related to the work […]
At DataCats, we are focused on a simple problem — how do we make sure every single government has easy access to get up and running with Open Data? In other words, how do we make it as easy as possible for governments of all levels to start publishing open data? The answer, as you […]
Note: This is a re-post from one of our CKAN community contributors, Matthew Fullerton. He has been working on some interesting extensions, which are outlined below. You can support Matthew’s work by providing comments below, or you can link through to his GitHub profile to comment or get in touch there. Styling GeoJSON data The GeoView extension […]
Reposted from the CKAN Association LinkedIn group. Feel free to join if you use LinkedIn. Thanks to Augusto Herrmann Batista and OK Brazil for allowing the following repost: I recently presented a couple of “lightning courses” to introduce an audience to CKAN. One was at the Linked Open Data Brasil conference in Florianópolis, Brazil, on November 2014. […]
The CKAN Association, established in 2014, is set to grow rapidly in 2015 with a number of initiatives now being planned to attract free tier Supporter members as well as paid members for the Gold, Silver and Bronze tiers. The newly established Community and Communication Team (C&C Team) is recruiting members now via their Google Group […]
The CKAN Association is always looking to further enhance the visualization options available for the CKAN data management platform. We are therefore delighted to connect with the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Open Indicators Consortium who have led the development of Weave (Web-based Analysis and […]
