Just in time for our upcoming workshops a new version of CKAN (v0.7) is ready. It provides some major improvements including:

• Convert to use SQLAlchemy and vdm v0.3 (v. major)
• Atom/RSS feed for Recent Changes
• Package search via name and title
• Tag lists show number of associated packages

The CKAN code is available from:

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ckan/0.7

The data is available from:

• http://ckan.net/license/

We’ve now over 300 packages — with more than 150 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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