CKAN
| CKAN | |
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| developer | Open Knowledge International |
| Current version | 2.8.3 ( 07/03/2019 ) |
| programming language | python |
| License | AGPL |
| http://www.ckan.org | |
CKAN ( Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network ) is a web-based data catalog software which is used in particular by public institutions for the sharing of " open data ". Its development is being driven in particular by the NGO Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF). On June 10, 2019, the Open Knowledge Foundation announced that CKAN's product responsibility will be jointly assumed by Link Digital and Datopian in the future. CKAN was originally developed on the basis of the package management systems known from Linux , but has meanwhile become a fully-fledged catalog software that provides data and their metadata for end users in various formats and can sometimes also display them visually.
A large part of CKAN can be controlled RESTful . This makes it easy to maintain data sets and their metadata automatically using a script. CKAN allows a large part of the functionality to be changed or expanded using plugins. CKAN has a large number of extensions.
The system is used worldwide by administrations from a wide variety of countries and state institutions. Well-known installations operate, for example, the administrations of the USA (data.gov) and Great Britain (data.gov.uk). Germany (govdata.de), Austria (data.gv.at) and Switzerland (opendata.swiss) as well as numerous federal states, cantons and cities also have their own CKAN portals.
literature
- Ulrich Herb : Knowledge organization à la Open Source . How the Open Knowledge Foundation promotes free knowledge. In: c't . No. 19 , 2011, p. 142-144 .
Web links
- ckan.org - Homepage of the software
- okfn.org - Homepage of the Open Knowledge Foundation
- linkdigital.com.au - Link Digital's homepage
- www.datopian.com - Datopian's homepage
Individual evidence
- ^ Steven De Costa, Paul Walsh: Introducing Bilateral Stewardship for the CKAN Open Source Project. June 10, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Rufus Pollock, Daniel Dietrich: CKAN: apt-get for the Debian of Data. In: 26th Chaos Communication Congress . December 28, 2009, accessed February 15, 2011 .
- ↑ CKAN extensions. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .