Description
CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN makes it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable. As a system CKAN functions as a synthesis of several different services: it combines the features of a listing/registry, a package index and a wiki. As a registry it acts like freshmeat but for open data and content resources. However it adds to a simple registry in key ways. First, thanks to its underlying versioned domain model CKAN has a wiki-like interface that lets anyone add and material held in it. Second, and unlike a wiki, CKAN can store 'structured' information, which allows it to provide 'index'-like features such as automated registration, discovery and installation of material. In this respect it behaves like CPAN or PyPI in the software world -- though again for open data and content not code.
Record
ROAR ID: | 3885 |
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Home Page: | http://www.ckan.net/ |
Repository Type: | Open and Linked Data |
Organisation: | Open Knowledge Foundation |
Country: | Europe > United Kingdom |
Location: | Country City Latitude Longitude United Kingdom Cambridge 52.1972 0.1251 |
Birth Date1: | 13 April 2007 00:00:00 UTC |
Record Count: | 0 |
Record Count History: | |
Daily Deposit Activity2: | Low Rate Medium Rate High Rate 0 0 0 |
OAI-PMH Interface: | http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rt506/LOD/CKAN.xml ?Identify ?ListMetadataFormats |
RSS Feed: | http://ckan.net/revision/list?days=1&format=atom |
Other Registries: | Celestial |
Record Creator: | MR R Tinati |
1 | Birth Date is either when the repository was first registered in ROAR or the earliest record found via the OAI-PMH interface. |
2 | Deposit activity measures the number of days in the last year that had "low" (1-9), "medium" (10-99) or "high" (100+) numbers of records deposited. |
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