CKAN, Data Management and Open Data Portals

Description

CKAN is the world’s leading open source data portal platform developed and maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation’s CKAN team. With numerous deployments around the world, the CKAN team will be here to demo CKAN version 2.0 (to be released) with our new user interface and theming. We’ll answering questions on features, available services & support, roadmap and how to get involved!

Interested in open data policy? Come talk to us about our experiences with data.gov.uk, the European Commission portal, Drupal integrations and workflow recommendations.

Agenda

Introduction to CKAN (2pm and 5pm)

For the rest of the workshop, we’ll split into two streams:

1. Technical (2:30pm - 6pm)

Covering:

Theming CKAN 2.0

Customization

Deploying your own instance

Anything else people are interested in

& we’ll vote on what to focus on

2. Community & clients (2:30pm - 6pm)

CKAN for government portals

Case Studies

CKAN for scientific & academic data

Deployment support

How to get a professional package

Hosting & Consultancy

Timings are flexible, and people are welcome to drop in at any point.

Session Host

Irina Bolychevsky

Contributors

Irina Bolychevsky - Product Manager
David Raznick - Tech lead
Mark Wainwright - Community Coordinator
Adrià Mercader - CKAN developer

Details

Location: Hack Workshop 1

Date & Time: Weds 14:00-19:00

Target Group: developers, decisions makers, government representatives instested in open data portals, CKAN and best practives. Everyone is welcome!

Topic Stream: Transparency and Accountability

Session Etherpad page: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/okfest