CKAN 2.6.0 released, patch versions for 2.3.x, 2.4.x and 2.5.x available
Adrià Mercader - November 2, 2016 in Releases
Adrià Mercader - November 2, 2016 in Releases
David Read - December 17, 2015 in Releases
David Read - December 17, 2015 in Releases
Jonathan Gray - September 2, 2015 in digital methods, Featured, financial transparency, issue mapping, open budget data, Open Data, Open Government Data, Policy, Public Money, Releases, research
CSOs, IGOs, multilaterals and governments should undertake further work to identify, engage with and map the interests of a broader range of civil society actors whose work might benefit from open fiscal data, in order to inform data release priorities and data standards work. Stronger feedback loops should be established between the contexts of data production and its various contexts of usage in civil society – particularly in journalism and in advocacy.
Governments, IGOs and funders should support pilot projects undertaken by CSOs and/or media organisations in order to further explore the role of data in the democratisation of fiscal policy – especially in relation to areas which appear to have been comparatively under-explored in this field, such as tax distribution and tax base erosion, or tracking money through from revenues to results.
Governments should work to make data “citizen readable” as well as “machine readable”, and should take steps to ensure that information about flows of public money and the institutional processes around them are accessible to non-specialist audiences – including through documentation, media, events and guidance materials. This is a critical step towards the greater democratisation and accountability of fiscal policy.
Further research should be undertaken to explore the potential implications and impacts of opening up information about public finance which is currently not routinely disclosed, such as more detailed data about tax revenues – as well as measures needed to protect the personal privacy of individuals.
CSOs, IGOs, multilaterals and governments should work together to promote and adopt consistent definitions of open budget data, open spending data and open fiscal data in order to establish the legal and technical openness of public information about public money as a global norm in financial transparency.
David Read - July 22, 2015 in Releases
Tryggvi Björgvinsson - March 20, 2015 in Extensions, Feature, Featured, Releases, visualization
Steven De Costa - March 11, 2015 in Featured, Releases
We are on the brink again. Open data is gaining momentum faster than the Baby Boomers are growing old and it has the potential to steer that wave of change in all manner of directions. We’re ready for the next 2.3. Enter CKAN 2.3.Here are some of the most exciting updates:
Improved DataStore filtering and full text search capabilities
Added new extension points to modify the DataStore behaviour
Simplified two-step dataset creation process
Ability for users to regenerate their own API keys
Changes on the authentication mechanism to allow more secure set-ups. See “Changes and deprecations” section for more details and “Troubleshooting” for migration instructions.
Better support for custom dataset types
Updated documentation theme, now clearer and responsive
If you are upgrading from a previous version, make sure to check the “Changes and deprecations” section in the CHANGELOG, specially regarding the authorization configuration and data visualizations.
To install the new version, follow the relevant instructions from the documentation depending on whether you are using a package or source install:
http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-
Adrià Mercader - October 15, 2014 in Releases
Lucy Chambers - July 17, 2014 in #contribute, Releases
Sean Hammond - June 9, 2014 in Releases
datapackage.json
file.
The datapackage.json
file contains metadata about the package (title of the
package, description, keywords, license, etc.) and schemas for each of the
package’s CSV files.
The format is a good compromise between CSV and Excel, providing the simplicity
and ease-of-use of CSV with some of the expressivity of full-blown
spreadsheets.
The schemas for the CSV files use the
JSON Table Schema format,
a simple format for tabular data schemas. It
includes metadata for each of the CSV file’s columns (column name, type,
description, etc.) and optional primary and foreign keys for the file.
datapackage.json
file containing the metadata you entered for your package and files, plus schemas
for each of your files: