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

== CKAN Service, CKAN API ==

The CKAN software is used to run the CKAN service: http://www.ckan.net/

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

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.

Documentation can be found at: http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/doc/ckan/ (and on this wiki).
                              [http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/doc/datapkg/ DataPkg Documentation]

== The Design Vision ==

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

== Related Work ==

  * Debian / R
  * [http://www.ivoa.net/ Virtual Observatory]
  * PyPI / Gems / CPAN

== Purpose ==

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

'''Freshmeat for Knowledge / A Debian for Data'''

More detailed:

'''A registry of open knowledge resources supporting automated reuse'''

== Design pages ==

 * PackageResources
 * DataPkgUseCases
 * UiReviewNotes