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CKAN - the Open Source Data Hub Software
Publish, share and find and manage data
General
New to CKAN? Start here.
- Official site for CKAN: http://ckan.org/
- FAQ
User Guide
How to use the CKAN web front-end.
- Using the Web Interface - 2m guide
- Managing Data Packages - On registering & deleting data packages, removing spam, tagging conventions & package resources.
- Searching Packages
- Creating and editing Packages
- Package Schema - see Domain Model
- Atom Feeds
- Administrative Dashboard
- RDF and CKAN
Advanced Topics
Use CKAN programmatically through the API or scripts.
- The API
System Administrator Guide
The Admin Guide provides a full guide to installing, configuring and running a CKAN site. Advanced topics also include developing CKAN extensions and customizing forms.
Additional background material for administrators:
- List of Extensions - full list of CKAN extensions
- Deployment - notes on deployment, currently experimental, to be moved into the Admin Guide
- Workflows - support for various workflows in CKAN (from wiki-like to sysadmin-only)
- Recipes - e.g. tag cloud, configuring google analytics
- Theming1.5 - Customising the look of CKAN v1.5
- Postgres permissions
- Integrating Webstore and CKAN
Community
Get involved in CKAN development.
- Meetups
- Project Steering Committee
- People
- List of all CKAN instances
- Linked Data
- Ideas for CKAN screencasts
- Related components:
- Webstore maintains tabular data
- Helmut the reconciliation server
- datapatterns.org, a data wrangling handbook
Plans
Technical Background
For developers working on CKAN core - technical background to the CKAN software.
- Design and Architecture
- Domain Model
- User Stories
- Load Testing - notes on how we load tested CKAN
- Purpose
- Data Formats - review of existing data exchange and querying formats
- Related Software - software related to CKAN (e.g. useful tools, similar software etc)
Developer Resources
Practical resources for CKAN developers.
- Submitting a code patch
- Becoming a CKAN Developer - how to get the code, how to contribute (coding standards etc)
- Making changes to model code - What to be aware of
- Development Overview - Roadmaps etc
- User Stories Spreadsheet
- CKAN developer trac - Tickets
- Release process
thedatahub.org / CKAN.net
- CKAN.net - Main CKAN community site
- Domain specific groups can be found in groups section
- CKAN.net FAQ
- GetTheData - sister site with partial integration