[ckan-discuss] [ckan-dev] Help shape the CKAN roadmap

Tue Jun 25 11:52:41 BST 2013

Hi Ross,

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

On 24 June 2013 16:58, Ross Thompson <ross.thompson.ca at gmail.com> wrote:
> in implementing data,gc.ca with CKAN 2.0, there were three areas we had to
> work around. These were:
>
> 1. True support for multilingualism is missing in CKAN. Multilingualism to
> us means much more than string translation, it means support for separate
> language entities such as English tags and French tags, and English and
> French values for fields in the dataset.
As pointed out by others this will be discussed soon to see if we can
come up with a good plan. It is a tricky one to get right.

> 2. Performance issues when dealing with 180000+ datasets. Loading and
> updating larges numbers of datasets through the API can take a weekend.
Yes, this is known issue, and I guess a testament of CKAN success as
it is being pushed further that was originally built for :)
We've compiled perfomace tips discussed during the development of the
Canadian and US portals and started a wiki page:

https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/Performance-tips-for-large-imports

Hopefully some of the approaches will find a way to core, but in these
scenarios there is a big variation on each projects needs and designs.

> 3. Accessibility issues were identified with the user interface and
> especially with search. We can certainly feed some of these back to OKFN
> that were identified by our accessibility team.
It would be awesome to have this kind of feedback and find ways to
incorporate them in next versions. Feel free to send them round the
list or create GitHub issues.

> These seem a little bigger than just feature requests, so I thought this
> might be a better forum to raise these points than just adding them to the
> road map.
>
> In general though, the reaction to the new implementation of our new open
> data portal with CKAN 2.0 has been really positive, so please don't take
> these as complaints! We're really looking forward to doing even more with
> it.
Great to hear it

> Thanks,
> Ross
> Statistics Canada
>
>
>
>
> On 24 June 2013 10:51, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Now that CKAN 2.0 is out, what should the next direction be for CKAN?
>> We've created a public roadmap and wiki page to help everyone shape
>> the direction of CKAN by voting and commenting, contributing,
>> supporting and suggesting new features.
>>
>> For full details, see Ira's blog post here:
>>
>> http://ckan.org/2013/06/24/ckan-roadmap-goes-public/
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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