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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.
Major features:
- Domain Model: Data and content "packages" with a standard set of core metadata and support for adding unlimited arbitrary additional metadata
- All package data is automatically versioned in a wiki-like manner
- Tagging of packages
- Groups for controlled categorization of packages
- Ratings
- Unlimited associated package resources ('download urls') with additional metadata (format, description etc)
- Complete web user interface (WUI)
- Package adding, editing, listing etc
- Wiki features such as "Recent Changes", edit histories, purging of changes etc
- User management and user home pages
- API: full JSON-based API (with python client)
- RDF version also available
- CKAN is easy to use as your "catalogue" backend
- Search: Full searchability (including full-text support) via API and WUI
- Access control: fine-grained access control for packages and groups
- Open-source and python implemented
- Associated command line client (datapkg)
Coming soon:
- Package relationships (depends on, derived from ...)
- Detailed statistics (+ tag clouds etc)
- See the tickets for more ...
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).
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
