We are pleased to announce the availability of version 1.0 of the CKAN software, our open source registry system for datasets (and other resources). After 3 years of development, twelve point releases and a several successful production deployments around the world CKAN has come of age!

CKAN around the world

As well as being used to power http://ckan.net and http://data.gov.uk CKAN is now helping run 7 data catalogues around the world including ones in Canada (http://datadotgc.ca / http://ca.ckan.net), Germany (http://de.ckan.net/) and Norway (http://no.ckan.net).

CKAN.net has also continued to grow steadily and now has over 940 registered packages:

Changelog

This is our largest release so far (56 tickets) with lots of new features and improvements. Main highlights (for a full listing of tickets please see the trac milestone):

  • Package edit form: new pluggable architecture for custom forms (#281, #286)
  • Package revisions: diffs now include tag, license and resource changes
    (#303)
  • Web interface: visual overhaul (#182, #206, #214-#227, #260) including a
    tag cloud (#89)
  • i18n: completion in Web UI – now covers package edit form (#248)
  • API extended: revisions (#251, #265), feeds per package (#266)
  • Developer documentation expanded (#289, #290)
  • Performance improved and CKAN stress-tested (#201)
  • Package relationships (Read-Write in API, Read-Only in Web UI) (#253-257)
  • Statistics page (#184)
  • Group edit: add multiple packages at once (#295)
  • Package view: RDF and JSON formatted metadata linked to from package page
    (#247)

Bugfixes:

  • Resources revision history (#292)
  • Extra fields now work with spaces in the name (#278, #280) and
    international characters (#288)
  • Updating resources in the REST API (#293)

Infrastructural:

  • Licenses: now uses external License Service (‘licenses’ Python module)
  • Changesets introduced to support distributed revisioning of CKAN data – see doc/distributed.rst for more information.

Thanks

Lastly a big thank-you to everyone who has contributed to this release and especially to the folks at data.gov.uk!

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Rufus Pollock is Founder and President of Open Knowledge.

8 thoughts on “CKAN v1.0 Released”

  1. Greetings, Rufus.

    I am maintainer of russian project OpenGovData.ru (http://www.opengovdata.ru) and I think it’s possible to convert collected data to the CKAN catalog.

    So what do you think about russian CKAN catalog?

    Best regards,
    Ivan begtin

  2. @Ivan: it would be very easy to convert to the CKAN catalog and we’d delighted to help you do this. First, thing to do is to make a Russian translation, this shouldn’t take more than an hour or two:

    http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/i18n/

    You can then deploy a CKAN instance (or we can do one for you …).

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