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    Governments hold a lot of data. A huge amount of data. And many are beginning to open it up for citizens and businesses to monitor and improve all sorts of things – from education and public services to crime rates and traffic. But all this data has to be stored, managed and presented in ways people can understand. CKAN is a data management platform used by governments and organisations around the world to handle these important functions. Irina Bolychevsky delivered a live demonstration of its data management workflows, visualisation and discovery features that help make data easy to upload, access and re-use. Irina Bolychevsky is the Commercial Director of Open Knowledge and the former CKAN Product Owner

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    Governments hold a lot of data. A huge amount of data. And many are beginning to open it up for citizens and businesses to monitor and improve all sorts of things – from education and public services to crime rates and traffic. But all this data has to be stored, managed and presented in ways people can understand. CKAN is a data management platform used by governments and organisations around the world to handle these important functions. Irina Bolychevsky delivered a live demonstration of its data management workflows, visualisation and discovery features that help make data easy to upload, access and re-use. Irina Bolychevsky is the Commercial Director of Open Knowledge and the former CKAN Product Owner

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    Friday Lunchtime Lecture: When Governments Open Up, Who Manages Their Data?

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    Governments hold a lot of data. A huge amount of data. And many are beginning to open it up for citizens and businesses to monitor and improve all sorts of things – from education and public services to crime rates and traffic. But all this data has to be stored, managed and presented in ways people can understand. CKAN is a data management platform used by governments and organisations around the world to handle these important functions. Irina Bolychevsky delivered a live demonstration of its data management workflows, visualisation and discovery features that help make data easy to upload, access and re-use. Irina Bolychevsky is the Commercial Director of Open Knowledge and the former CKAN Product Owner

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    Irina Bolychevsky

    @shevski
    ckan.org okfn.org
    We are a global network using advocacy,
    technology & training to unlock information
    and data and empower citizens and
    organizations to drive positive change
    okfn.org
    We do lots of awesome open things and
    projects, such as...
    OpenDataProtocols.org
    A piece of content 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?
    WhereDoesMyMoneyGo.org
    CKAN is...
    a search index and
    signpost to data
    a metadata catalog
    a datastore (with APIs)
    a data management solution
    Serves two main use cases
    1. search and discoverability for re-users of data
    2. data management tools for publishers
    1. Search and discovery
    Online home for data

    Central keyword search
    Facet by tags, location, format, licence,
    publishing department
    Browse by groups, keywords, publishers
    Standardized interface for viewing
    Link to datasets or data directly
    Previews and data exploration where possible
    Demo time!
    http://gong.io/
    http://data.id/
    http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/
    http://geothermaldata.org/
    http://publicdata.eu/
    http://data.sa.gov.au/
    http://data.surrey.ca/dataset
    http://dati.openexpo2015.it/catalog/dataset
    Data Management for Publishers
    Easily store and update metadata records
    Workflow and approval
    Fine grained authorization controls
    Broken link reports
    Download and view counts
    Harvesting
    Demo
    http://data.gov.uk/
    http://demo.ckan.org/organization/national-
    statistics-office
    Add and edit dataset metadata
    Authorisation & access control
    Stats & analytics
    CKAN comes with inbuilt stats + integration with
    Google Analytics
    Includes dataset counts, download counts +
    reports
    Link checker and 5 star ratings
    Harvesting and normalization
    Get metadata from external catalogs and
    endpoints
    CKAN will parse, validate and normalise to
    create metadata records that look the same to
    end users no matter where they came from
    We can currently harvest: other CKAN
    catalogs, CSW endpoints and WAFs serving
    ISO 19139 documents
    Federation
    Search across catalogs in aggregator sites
    (such as publicdata.eu)
    Data Catalog Interoperability Protocol: http:
    //spec.datacatalogs.org/
    Its a platform!
    Add everything from:
    comments
    activity stream
    geospatial previews & support
    blog and pages
    dashboard and visualisations
    real time data
    multilingualism
    DCAT support
    So, CKAN is...
    Widely adopted - over 20 national governments
    and 60+ local governments & cities
    Open Source - everything developed on
    GitHub (github.com/ckan) and well
    documented (docs.ckan.org)
    Sustainable
    Extensible flexible componentized architecture
    Developer friendly
    Rich JSON API (http://docs.ckan.
    org/en/latest/api/index.html)
    Onward and Upward
    CKAN Association
    Thriving vendor ecosystem
    Open Knowledge Services also offer:
    bespoke customization
    integration, new development
    deployment
    fully managed hosted service
    services@okfn.org
    Irina Bolychevsky
    @shevski
    ckan.org okfn.org
    Thank you!
    Any questions, comments?

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