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1Subscribe to datasets: new CKAN feature explained

Subscribe to datasets: new CKAN feature explained

Jul 21, 2020

Datopian has launched a new CKAN feature that allows users to subscribe to datasets. This is an opt-in feature that sends users an email notification when a dataset to which they are subscribed is changed or updated. Let’s take a look at the feature in more detail.

2Make Open Data discoverable for search engines

Make Open Data discoverable for search engines

Apr 30, 2018

Note: this is a crosspost, originally published on the Liip Blog. Open Data portals are a great way to discover datasets and present them to the public. But they lack interoperability and it’s thus even harder to search across them. Imagine if you’re looking for a dataset it’s just a simple “google search” away. Historically […]

3120+ CKAN Portals in the Palm of Your Hand. Via the Open Data Companion (ODC)

120+ CKAN Portals in the Palm of Your Hand. Via the Open Data Companion (ODC)

Sep 24, 2015

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 […]

4Export Datasets from CKAN to Excel

Export Datasets from CKAN to Excel

Nov 9, 2014

ckanapi-exporter is a new API script that we’ve developed for exporting dataset metadata from CKAN to Excel-compatible CSV files. Check out the short presentation below, and visit ckanapi-exporter for more details:

5CKAN at OKFestival: raw data now!

CKAN at OKFestival: raw data now!

Sep 27, 2012

Last week’s OKFest is finally over, after a hectic week of talks, workshops, films, hackathons, and more. You can read about highlights such as Hans Rosling’s brilliant talk over on the OKFN blog. The biggest challenge for me was being in two places at once on Wednesday afternoon, with both the CKAN workshop and a […]

6UK spending: is the data all there?

UK spending: is the data all there?

Sep 13, 2012

Data tells stories, and some of the most interesting (and newsworthy) stories are about spending. There is buckets and buckets of spending data at data.gov.uk, the UK government’s CKAN portal. So why don’t journalists write more stories about it? There are various reasons, of course. It is quite a lot of work to trawl through […]

7CKAN at PyCon UK

CKAN at PyCon UK

Sep 23, 2011

The CKAN team are oragnising a talk, a workshop and a sprint at the forthcoming PyCon UK conference in Coventry this weekend. We plan to divide the CKAN slot into two parts: Talk – 30 mins description of what open data is all about, how CKAN can help and the technical background around how we […]

8Under the hood of CKAN

Under the hood of CKAN

May 3, 2011

The following is a guest post from Christophe Guéret, member of the working group on EU Open Data CKAN.net is a community-based effort for creating an open catalog of public datasets. Using the web site, everyone is free to register datasets thereby stating their existence and the possible links between them along with extra meta-data […]

9Data Quality: What is It?

Data Quality: What is It?

Jan 20, 2011

Whether one is a journalist using data for an investigation or a governement publishing its budget its important that we can check assess that data’s quality. It’s also true that if I’m a user of a data catalogue it’s very useful for me to know something about the dataset before I try to download it […]

10Raw Data in CKAN Resources and Data Proxy

Raw Data in CKAN Resources and Data Proxy

Jan 11, 2011

Couple of weeks ago, James Gardner (thejimmyg) created a proof-of-concept preliminary implementation of small WSGI application jsondataproxy for transforming URL resources into a common structured data format – JSON-P/JSON. Main purpose of the data proxy is to provide data contained in the CKAN resources for data previews and for raw data API. The raw data API should […]

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