Portal's on fire. Stakeholders are oblivious. You're one config file away from a full meltdown. This is what happens when open data infrastructure runs on vibes and prayers. We've seen it. We've fixed it. What's your worst portal horror story? 👇 #OpenData #DataPortals #Datopian
Datopian
IT Services and IT Consulting
Redwood City, Kalifornien 1,975 followers
Experts in data management, open data & CKAN. Powerful data portals. Seamless open data. Smart data solutions.
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Datopian is a global leader in data management, consultancy, and CKAN services, specializing in building world-class data portals. We are experts in open data, data engineering, data strategy, architecture, and governance. Essentially, we help governments, enterprises, and NGOs publish, manage, and use data effectively. 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗨𝗦 ✅ We have two decades of pioneering data tools and solutions ✅ We know how to build powerful data portals - we built the first open data portals, including data.gov and data.gov.uk ✅ Worked with Google, the World Bank, governments, and Fortune 500 companies worldwide ✅ We are the creators, co-stewards, and core developers of CKAN and many other open-source products. 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗦 🔹 𝗖𝗞𝗔𝗡 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 🔹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗛𝘂𝗯.𝗶𝗼 – 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱, 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 Browse free datasets or use our Premium Data Service. We find, clean, and deliver the data you need—fast. 🔹 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗝𝗦 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 – 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 The fastest way to get started with open data. AI-powered and fully compliant, it lets you set up a data portal in just five minutes—ideal for governments, businesses, and researchers. 🔹 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮.𝗶𝗼 – 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 An approach to data interoperability via lightweight specifications and software. 🔹 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄.𝗮𝗽𝗽, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗗𝗕, 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 We continue to develop innovative tools for data management, publishing, and interoperability. Whether you need a data portal, data-sharing platform, or publishing tools, we build solutions that are simple, powerful, and efficient.
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- IT Services and IT Consulting
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- 11-50 employees
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- Redwood City, Kalifornien
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- Privately Held
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- 2015
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- Open data, Open source, OpenSaaS, Data publishing, Data Engineering, Data Management, and Data Strategy
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Most government data teams are managing a real tension and rarely talking about it openly. The compliance case is legitimate. Publish what you're required to publish. Meet the mandate. The data is technically available. The public engagement case is also legitimate. Citizens should be able to understand their city through its data. Not just access files, actually get answers. Most portals were built for the first job. They do it well. But citizens showing up with real questions about their bus, their neighbourhood, their air quality, need something different. PortalJS Cloud is built for that second job: civic.portaljs.com #CivicDataPortal #PortalJS #DataInfrastructure #DataPortals
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World Resources Institute produces some of the most critical environmental data in the world on forests, climate, water, and cities. But for years, that data lived across three separate platforms. Each built at a different time, for a different purpose. A researcher looking for forest carbon data might find it on Resource Watch. Or the legacy portal. Or Global Forest Watch. The problem was that there was no single front door. Internal teams faced the same friction. Publishing a new dataset meant navigating different systems with different standards. There was no shared process, no clear workflow, no consistent way to know what had been reviewed and what hadn't. So we built the WRI Data Explorer, one unified platform that replaced all three. - Today, a government analyst searching for deforestation data in Southeast Asia types one query and finds it. - The WRI team publishing a new energy dataset follows one clear path from draft to public. - An NGO in West Africa downloads large files without broken links or timeouts. The data didn't change. The distance between the data and the people who need it did. Check out WRI's data portal journey in the comments. Explorer: Consolidating Environmental Data with CKAN and PortalJS. #WRI #Datopian #DataExplorer #GovTech #DataPortals
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Twenty years building civic data portals taught us something uncomfortable. The publishing side was always well-optimised. Metadata complete. Standards met. Datasets organised. The portal did exactly what it was built to do. Then a citizen landed on it. Typed something into the search box. Got a list of filenames they didn't recognise. Left without finding what they came for. That's not a user problem. It's a design gap. Portals were built to publish data. Citizens come to understand it. Those are two different jobs, and for a long time, only one of them had a solution. See what closing that gap looks like: civic.portaljs.com #CivicDataPortal #PortalJS #DataInfrastructure #DataPortals
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Rare footage. Clean pipeline. Complete metadata. Zero stakeholder follow-up questions. This should be the norm, not the exception. What does a good day with your data look like?👇 #OpenData #DataPortals #Datopian
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The best measure of a successful portal launch? The city didn't even notice the switch. 😊 The City of Malmö needed a new open data portal, fully compliant with their requirements, on-brand, and live by January 1st, 2026. Zero interruption. Delivered on time. Words mean more when they come from the people we built it for. Thank you, Maria Thernström; it was a pleasure working with the Malmö team. #OpenData #CKAN #GovTech #CivicTech #OpenSource #Datopian #PortalJS
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Open data portals serve the public. When the platform goes down, so does the service. The City of Malmö faced a confirmed shutdown of their legacy portal on January 1, 2026. This is a real project and a clear example of how phased delivery handles pressure better than trying to get everything right at once. If you work on public sector data infrastructure, the full case study goes deeper into how we approached it. #CityOfMalmö #OpenDataPortal #GovTech #Datopian
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🔐 CKAN 2.11.5 and 2.10.10 are now available. If you're running a CKAN-powered data portal, now is the time to upgrade. Both releases address four security vulnerabilities and include important bug fixes. No database changes. No Solr schema changes. No backwards-incompatible changes. Just a straightforward upgrade that keeps your portal secure. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dCJfsSxb #OpenData #CKAN #OpenSource #DataPortals #Security
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Data engineers, data managers, open data leads - you know this meeting. Someone says 'just clean it up.' Someone else says it's already clean. Nobody agrees. Standards exist for a reason. Happy Friday! #OpenData #DataStandards #DataQuality #Datopian
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We asked this because we keep hearing the same things from data teams. Different answers. Same root cause: infrastructure that wasn't built to scale with the organisation. Vote below and if your situation is more specific, describe it in the comments. We read every one. #OpenData #DataManagement #DataPortal #DataGovernance #DataInfrastructure