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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

🔐 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

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

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