The software behind the Open Data Portal: CKAN

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13/09/21
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What is CKAN?

CKAN is the base technology on which the Open Data Portal Platform Module is built.

CKAN is an Open Data Portal, or in other words, it is a platform for managing and publishing data, offering capabilities for publishing, sharing, searching and visualizing data. CKAN is the most widely used software to create an Open Data Portal, and you can see it in most Open Data Portals, both Spanish and worldwide:

CKAN is an open-source solution with AGPL 3.0 license.

Features

Its main features are:

  • Data publishing (DataSets) through a web interface or through its Web API.

  • Data visualization in different forms:

  • Data Search:

  • RESTFul/JSON API to access all its functionality:

  • Metadata associated to each DataSet.

  • Geospatial visualization capabilities.

  • Extensible with a large number of extensions available as you can see here: https://extensions.ckan.org

  • Visually configurable by Themes.