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CKAN intro for Estonian open data workshop
The Open Knowledge Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes openness through community engagement and projects around the world. They build tools and communities to create, share, and build upon open knowledge, which is content and data that anyone can freely use, share and modify. Their goal is to improve governance, research and the economy. CKAN is open source software they developed to make it easy to publish, share and find data through features like search, publishing tools, and APIs.
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- 1. The Open KnowledgeFoundation Irina Bolychevsky @shevski www.ckan.org www.okfn.org www.thedatahub.org
- 2. A not-for-profit organisation promoting openness in all its forms. Progress through community engagement - organise events to bring people together. We have projects and partnerships throughout the world , especially in Europe. The Open Knowledge Foundation We build tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge - content and data that everyone can use, share and build on. Aim to improve governance, research and the economy .
- 3. A piece ofcontent or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike. http://opendefinition.org/ What does open mean?
- 4. What problems are we trying to solve? Step 1: get the data open Step 2: make is accessible Step 3: start building, linking and turning data into something more - information
- 5. CKAN isopen source software that makes it easy to publish, share and find data. Features: Central registry / catalogue for data Rich search and data publishing tools Geospatial metadata & search Extendible and flexible: stats, analytics, comments etc Rich restful JSON API Interoperability: metadata standards & harvesting Working on : tools for previewing, cleaning up, linking and building on data
- 6. Share data - give your data an online home with rich, extendable metadata
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- 8. Find data - keyword search + faceting by tags, groups
- 9. Datasets and resourcesget their own page with additional information and link to download:
- 10. Use Data - Europe's Spending (openspending.org)
- 11. UK Government Spendingdata visualised
- 12. Europe's Energy (fromEurostat)
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- 14. Used by - Data.gov.uk
- 15. ...many CKAN instancesaround the world
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- 17. Any Questions? IrinaBolychevsky @shevski www.ckan.org www.okfn.org www.thedatahub.org