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

CKAN Service, CKAN API

The ​CKAN service is here:

​http://www.ckan.net/

The CKAN service also provides a ​RESTful interface for machine clients.

​http://www.ckan.net/api/rest

CKAN is an ​Open Knowledge Foundation project.

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

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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