Awesome CKAN

A curated list of awesome things related to CKaN

Extensions

Name	Description
Organization Dashboard	CKAN extension for creating organization dashboards.
Disqus	Extension that adds the Disqus commenting system to CKAN.
Google Analytics	CKAN extension to integrate Google Analytics data into CKAN. Gives download stats on package pages, list of most popular packages, etc.
Harvest	This extension provides a common harvesting framework for ckan extensions and adds a CLI and a WUI to CKAN to manage harvesting sources and jobs.
Spatial	This extension contains plugins that add geospatial capabilities to CKAN.
Realtime	CKAN plugin which makes your CKAN site into a Realtime Data Portal.
Dataspatial	Dataspatial is a Ckan extension to provide geospatial awareness of datastore data.
Request Data	This extension introduces a new type of dataset in which access to data is by request.
Organization Portals	CKAN extension for creating organization portals.
Data Solr	Datasolr is a Ckan extension to use Solr for datastore queries.
Central Authentication Service	CAS (Central Authentication Service) client extension for CKAN.
S3 File Store	Use Amazon S3 as a filestore for CKAN.
C3 Charts	c3js based charts for CKAN.
Cloud Storage	Implements support for resource storage against multiple popular providers via apache-libcloud (S3, Azure Storage, etc...).
DCAT	This extension provides plugins that allow CKAN to expose and consume metadata from other catalogs using RDF documents serialized using DCAT.
Fluent	This extension provides a way to store and return multilingul fields in CKAN datasets, resources, organizations and groups.
Map Views	CKAN Resource View to build maps and choropleth maps.
OData	CKAN OData support to connect to tools like Tableau.
Pages	This extension gives you an easy way to add simple pages to CKAN.
Geospatial	This extension contains plugins that add geospatial capabilities to CKAN.

SDKs and Tools

Python

• ckanapi A command line interface and Python module for accessing the CKAN Action API - https://github.com/ckan/ckanapi - @wardi and CKAN team
• ckan-api-client Python client for Ckan API - https://github.com/opendatatrentino/ckan-api-client - @opendatatrentino

Javascript

• ckan.js Javascript client library for CKAN with support for Node and the browser - https://github.com/okfn/ckan.js - @rufuspollock

Command Line 📟

• ckanapi A command line interface and Python module for accessing the CKAN Action API - https://github.com/ckan/ckanapi - @wardi and CKAN team

CKAN Instances

• 🇺🇸 🏛️ Official US Federal Government Data Portal - https://catalog.data.gov
• 🇨🇦 🏛️ Official Canadian Government Data Portal - https://open.canada.ca/en/open-data
• 🇨🇦 🏛️ Official Ontario Government Data Portal - https://data.ontario.ca/
• 🌍 ⛑️ Humanitarian Data Exchange - https://data.humdata.org/

See more at https://ckan.org/about/instances/

Deployment

• OpenShift - https://github.com/dagniel/ckan-on-openshift by @dagniel - more details in ckan/ideas#226
• Kubernetes - https://github.com/datopian/ckan-cloud-helm - full thread here ckan/ideas#206