We’ve recently been working hard to improve CKAN. Now you can try out some of the new features…

• Groups – While CKAN already allows packages to be categorized with tags, which anyone can edit, now you can create curated groups of packages. Group administrators control who can edit the packages associated with a given group.

• Ratings – Each package can be given a general star rating by anyone. It should become a useful indicator of usefulness. There are controls to stop people voting more than once.

• Integration with Is It Open? (Alpha) – You can now click straight through from CKAN to the alpha Is It Open? service – to request information about the whether or not a given package is open.

• Your user page – this already covers recent edits and now shows total edits and packages you are admin for. We intend it to be more customisable and publicly linked to.

We’d love to hear what you think of these changes – and any ideas about how we can make CKAN better!

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