= Welcome to Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN)  Development Project Wiki =

== CKAN Service, CKAN API ==

The [http://www.ckan.net/ CKAN service] is here:

http://www.ckan.net/

The CKAN service also provides a [http://www.ckan.net/api/rest RESTful interface] for machine clients.

http://www.ckan.net/api/rest

CKAN is an [http://www.okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation] project.

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== Development Project Home Page ==

Code is in a mercurial repository here: http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/hg

This Trac service is being used to track CKAN project developments.

== The Design Vision ==

[[Image(ckan-vision.png)]]

== Purpose ==

For those from the open source community it can most simply be put as:

'''Freshmeat for knowledge'''

More detailed:

'''To provide a comprehesive database of open knowledge projects, tools and datasets.'''

== Requirements and Use Cases ==

  * '''Deprecated - use trac tickets''' RequirementsSpecification
  * '''Deprecated - use trac tickets''' UseCases