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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A new feature in CKAN enables users to preview geographical data in GeoJSON files, a widely-used open format for geodata. The preview renders the data on an interactive map. GeoJSON is a simple file format for storing spatial features such as points and areas together with attributes. The new preview loads GeoJSON data into a […]

A new feature in CKAN 2.0 enables you to add custom previews for different file types. CKAN’s ability to preview resources gives users a quick way to check if they have the dataset they need – as well as to begin to explore the data. CKAN has built-in previews for certain filetypes, such as images […]