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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 […]

3Join us for CKANCon 2016!

Join us for CKANCon 2016!

Jul 14, 2016

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 […]

4Showcase your data

Showcase your data

Sep 21, 2015

We all know CKAN is great for publishing and managing data, and it has powerful visualisation tools to provide instant insights and analysis. But it’s also useful and inspiring to see examples of how open data is being used. CKAN has previously provided for this with the ‘Related Items’ feature (also known as ‘Apps & […]

5Implementing VectorTiles Preview of Geodata on HDX

Implementing VectorTiles Preview of Geodata on HDX

Sep 16, 2015

This post is modified version of a post on the HDX blog.  It is modified here to highlight information of most interest to the CKAN community.  You can see the original post here. Humanitarian data is almost always inherently geographic. Even the data in a simple CSV file will generally correspond to some piece of […]

6Building tools for Open Data adoption

Building tools for Open Data adoption

Sep 11, 2015

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 […]

7Presenting public finance just got easier

Presenting public finance just got easier

Mar 20, 2015

CKAN 2.3 is out! The world-famous data handling software suite which powers data.gov, data.gov.uk and numerous other open data portals across the world has been significantly upgraded. How can this version open up new opportunities for existing and coming deployments? Read on. One of the new features of this release is the ability to create […]

8Geospatial update: MapBox, pycsw, and CKAN at FOSS4G

Geospatial update: MapBox, pycsw, and CKAN at FOSS4G

Oct 12, 2013

There has been a lot of recent work on CKAN’s popular and widely used spatial extension. The extension adds a spatial field to datasets and allows spatial metadata to be harvested from a variety of sources, queried (including with a map search), and exposed using the CSW standard for geospatial discovery. It also provides map […]

9EDaWaX: Choosing CKAN for managing research data

EDaWaX: Choosing CKAN for managing research data

Sep 25, 2013

This is a guest post by Hendrik Bunke of the EDaWaX project, cross posted from the project blog. EDaWaX is a German project which aims to greatly increase the amount of research data in Economics that is made open. One aim of EDaWaX is to develop and implement a web-platform prototype for a publication-related research […]

10CKAN 2.1 released

CKAN 2.1 released

Aug 13, 2013

We are happy to announce that the new CKAN 2.1 version is available to download and install. This version adds exciting new features, including an interface for bulk dataset updates (shown below), improved previews for text files, a new redesigned dashboard and significant improvements to the documentation. Have a look at the changelog for a […]

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