[ckan-discuss] Can someone perhaps answer this guy's StackOverflow CKAN API question?

Fri Feb 1 10:21:08 GMT 2013

> What I do not understand in his post is the difference he see between
> the web application datahub.io and CKAN. Do I miss something ? CKAN is
> simply a python based CMS (so by definition with a web front end )
> dedicated to the publishing of data (public or not/ scientific or not
> …. simply data). Datahub.io is simply one instance of CKAN. Is it
> right ?

That's right, datahub.io is just another instance of CKAN 1.8 like any
other, it has a few open source extensions and customisations enabled
but is a fairly vanilla instance I think.

But in the blog post I think he's drawing a difference between the
support/community for people who want to download CKAN and install their
own instance, vs the support/community for people who just want to use
datahub.io (and for example would be more interested in docs about using
it, rather than installing, deploying and developing for it), which is
fair enough.