About CKAN
CKAN is the open-source data portal software. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and find data. It provides a powerful database for cataloging and storing datasets, with an intuitive web front-end and API.
The core functionality can be flexibly extended with the features you need โ from social integration and comments, to Google Analytics, to integrated data storage. See Features for more information.
Features
A full data portal solution.
- Complete catalog system with easy to use web interface and a powerful API
- Strong integration with third-party CMSโs like Drupal and WordPress
- Data visualization and analytics
- Workflow support including moderated editing, full change history
- Fine-grained access control
- Integrated data storage
- Federated structure: easily set up new instances with common search
Full Support and Hosted Solutions
CKAN is open source software and was developed by the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation in 2007 to run the Data Hub, a public registry of open datasets. It now has an active developer and user community and is used by clients including the UK, Dutch and Norwegian governments.
As open-source software, CKAN is completely free to use, and, more importantly, ensures that users have complete freedom both with regard to supplier and hosting but also customization and extension of their solution.
Managed by a full-time professional development team, CKAN has full support available, as well as a hosted solutions with SLA.
Please get in touch to find out more.