CKAN is the world’s leading open-source data portal platform. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and work with data. It's a data management system that provides a powerful platform for cataloging, storing and accessing datasets with a rich front-end, full API (for both data and catalog), visualization tools and more.CKAN is used by national and regional government organizations throughout the European Union, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania to power a variety of official and community data portals. Around the globe, government organizations trust CKAN as their data management system of choice. CKAN is a complete out-of-the-box software solution that makes data accessible and usable – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data (including storage of data and provision of robust data APIs). CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organizations) wanting to make their data open and available.
Features
- All of a CKAN website’s core functionality (everything you can do with the web interface and more) can be used by external code that calls the CKAN API
- The CKAN DataStore extension provides an ad hoc database for storage of structured data from CKAN resources
- CKAN allows you to pick and choose which features you want to use for your data portal
- You can easily develop your own by following the extending guide
- Advanced geospatial features, covering data preview, search, and discovery
- Commonly metadata is provided by default, and additional attributes can be defined as needed
- An intuitive web interface allows you to easily register, update and refine datasets