CKAN
Harnessing the Power of Open Data
This API is best for managing and publishing open datasets.
CKAN enables developers to work with open data with ease. It is an open source platform for managing, publishing, sharing and finding datasets, with powerful data storage and analysis functions. It can help you quickly access datasets and make them available for others to use, allowing for user and group management. It also supports geospatial metadata, so you can develop more efficient and effective applications and services. With these tools, you can easily create applications and services with open data.
Key features
- Data management and visualization
- REST APIs
- metadata standards support
- SPARQL&SQL data analysis
- User/Group management
- Geospatial metadata
- web services and integration with mobile applications
- search and analytics.
Potential use cases
- Landscaping Analytics: Create a service that accesses geospatial data from CKAN and uses it to create analytics for landscaping companies.
- Real Time Bus Tracking: Create an application using CKAN APIs to provide real time bus tracking and route prediction.
- Data Marketplace: Create a service that allows organizations to submit, find and buy datasets from CKAN.
CKAN is a great tool that enables us to work with open datasets and quickly develop new applications. The fact that it supports user/group management, geospatial metadata and integration with mobile applications is great, as it saves us a lot of time on developing. I highly recommend it.
Related Technologies
- ArcGIS
- Socrata
- HDX
- OpenDataSoft