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 ​RESTful interface for machine clients.

CKAN is an ​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).

​DataPkg Documentation

The Design Vision

Related Work

• Debian / R
• ​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