Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of WikiStart

Timestamp:

01/10/10 22:00:28 (4 years ago)

Author:

rgrp

Comment:

list of features

WikiStart

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-= Welcome to Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN)  Development Project Wiki =
+= Welcome to Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Development Project Wiki =
 
 == CKAN Service, CKAN API ==
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 CKAN is an [http://www.okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation] project.
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+Major features:
+  * Domain Model: Data and content "packages" with a standard set of core metadata and support for adding unlimited ''arbitrary'' additional metadata
+    * All package data is automatically versioned in a wiki-like manner
+    * Tagging of packages
+    * Groups for controlled categorization of packages
+    * Ratings
+    * Unlimited associated package resources ('download urls') with additional metadata (format, description etc) 
+  * Complete web user interface (WUI)
+    * Package adding, editing, listing etc
+    * Wiki features such as "Recent Changes", edit histories, purging of changes etc
+    * User management and user home pages
+  * API: full JSON-based API (with python client)
+    * RDF version also available
+    * CKAN is easy to use as your "catalogue" backend
+  * Search: Full searchability (including full-text support) via API and WUI
+  * Access control: fine-grained access control for packages and groups
+  * Open-source and python implemented
+  * Associated command line client (datapkg)
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+Coming soon:
+  * Package relationships (depends on, derived from ...)
+  * Detailed statistics (+ tag clouds etc)
+  * See the tickets for more ...
 
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