CKAN 0.6 Released

July 8th, 2008

Version v0.6 of the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) software has just been released (and simultaneously rolled out to the site). Changes include:

  • Autocompletion (+ suggestion) of tags when adding tags to a package.
  • Paginated lists for packages, tags, and revisions.
  • RESTful machine API for package access, update, listing and creation.
  • API Keys for users who wish to modify information via the REST API.
  • Update to vdm v0.2 (SQLObject) which fixes ordering of lists.
  • Better mmunity to SQL injection attacks.

The major development in this release were tag autocompletion (completed earlier in the year) and the RESTful API which was only polished off last week. For prospective users of the API there is some example python client code. We ourselves our busy utilizing the REST interface (and client) in order to integrate CKAN support into datapkg — which we also hope to release very soon.

The CKAN code is available from:

The data is available from:

We’ve now over 230 packages — with more than 100 of these added this year. If you come across a large dataset or substantial collection, please consider registering it on CKAN!

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Posted by Rufus Pollock Filed in News, OKF Projects

2 Responses to “CKAN 0.6 Released”

  1. Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » CKAN and Finding Open Data in the Life Sciences Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    […] There is significant work involved in documenting the legal and technological issues involved in accessing and re-using knowledge. It would be fantastic if this could be made easier by sharing the results of this kind of research. CKAN is intended to be a community-driven resource to aid the discovery of (open) knowledge in the first instance, its automatic installation in the longer term, and ultimately to support its re-use by providing multiple download links, multiple formats, big datasets broken down into smaller components and so on. […]

  2. Science Commons » Blog Archive » Voices from the future of science: Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    […] Your Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) is a registry for open knowledge packages and projects, and people have added more than 100 in the past year. Can you tell us how the project got started? What have the recent updates achieved? And what are your future plans — where do you hope to go next? […]

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