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02/04/10 19:49:01 (4 years ago)
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rgrp
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describe ckan and mention excel importer

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  • WikiStart

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    1 = Welcome to Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Development Project Wiki = 
     1= Welcome to Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Project Wiki = 
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    3 == CKAN Service, CKAN API == 
     3CKAN is a '''registry or catalogue system for datasets or other "knowledge" resources'''. CKAN aims to make it '''easy to find, share and reuse open content and data''', especially in ways that are '''machine automatable'''. 
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    5 The CKAN software is used to run the CKAN service: http://www.ckan.net/ 
     5Those familiar with software services like freshmeat, CPAN, or apt can think of CKAN as providing an analogous service for content and data. 
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    7 The CKAN service also provides a [http://www.ckan.net/api/rest RESTful interface] for machine clients. 
     7The CKAN software is used to run the CKAN service: http://www.ckan.net/ and is also running the catalogue behind http://data.gov.uk/. CKAN is an [http://www.okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation] project. 
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    9 CKAN is an [http://www.okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation] project. 
     9== Features == 
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    1111Major features: 
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     13  * Free/Open-Source software, written in Python 
    1214  * Domain Model: Data and content "packages" with a standard set of core metadata and support for adding unlimited ''arbitrary'' additional metadata 
    1315    * All package data is automatically versioned in a wiki-like manner 
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    1618    * Ratings 
    1719    * Unlimited associated package resources ('download urls') with additional metadata (format, description etc)  
    18   * Complete web user interface (WUI) 
     20  * Web user interface (WUI) 
    1921    * Package adding, editing, listing etc 
    2022    * Wiki features such as "Recent Changes", edit histories, purging of changes etc 
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    2426    * CKAN is easy to use as your "catalogue" backend 
    2527  * Search: Full searchability (including full-text support) via API and WUI 
    26   * Access control: fine-grained access control for packages and groups 
    27   * Open-source and python implemented 
    28   * Associated command line client (datapkg) 
     28  * Access control: fine-grained access control for packages and group 
     29  * Additional interfaces: 
     30    * Excel importer (upload dataset/package information direct from a spreadsheet) 
     31    * Fully featured command line client (datapkg) 
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    3033Coming soon: