[okfn-discuss] Announcing CKAN 2.0

Mon May 13 15:09:08 UTC 2013

Well done CKAN team. I hope to start using it soon. For extracted
scientific content.

I note several pages with maps. Does CKAN (have plans to) do geocoding?

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Mark Wainwright
<mark.wainwright at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> CKAN is a powerful, open source, open data management platform, used
> by governments and organizations around the world to make large
> collections of data accessible, including the UK and US government
> open data portals.
>
> Today we are very happy and excited to announce the final release of
> CKAN 2.0. This is the most significant piece of CKAN news since the
> project began, and represents months of hectic work by the team and
> other contributors since before the release of version 1.8 last
> October, and of the 2.0 beta in February. Thank you to the many CKAN
> users for your patience – we think you’ll agree it’s been worth the
> wait.
>
> CKAN 2.0 is a significant improvement on 1.x versions for data users,
> programmers, and publishers. Enormous thanks are due to the many
> users, data publishers, and others in the data community, who have
> submitted comments, code contributions and bug reports, and helped to
> get CKAN to where it is. Thanks also to OKF clients who have supported
> bespoke work in various areas that has become part of the core code.
> These include data.gov, the US government open data portal, which will
> be re-launched using CKAN 2.0 in a few weeks.
>
> CKAN 2.0 introduces a new sleek default design, and easier theming to
> build custom sites. It has a completely redesigned authorisation
> system enabling different departments or bodies to control their own
> workflow. It has more built-in previews, and publishers can add custom
> previews for their favourite file types. News feeds and activity
> streams enable users to keep up with changes or new datasets in areas
> of interest. A new version of the API (previously available beta)
> enables other applications to have full access to all the capabilities
> of CKAN. And there are many other smaller changes and bug fixes.
>
> For full details, see the blog post:
>
>   http://ckan.org/2013/05/13/announcing-ckan-2-0/
>
> If you're in a hurry to try it out, head over to demo.ckan.org where
> you can see it in action!
>
> Mark Wainwright
>
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