CKAN Features
CKAN is a fully-featured, mature, open source data portal and data management solution.
CKAN provides a streamlined way to make your data discoverable and presentable. Each dataset is given its own page for the listing of data resources and a rich collection of metadata, making it a valuable and easily searchable data catalogue.
The core functionality of CKAN provides a wealth of features and has over 200 community extensions which can fill almost any feature gap.
API
CKAN’s Action API is a powerful, RPC-style API that exposes all of CKAN’s core features to API clients.
DataStore
The CKAN DataStore extension provides an ad hoc database for storage of structured data from CKAN resources.
Extend
CKAN allows you to pick and choose which features you want to use for your data portal. Or, you can easily develop your own by following the extending guide!
Federate
Federation Because CKAN's harvesting functionality can be used to pull in metadata from other data portals, CKAN can be used…
FileStore
FileStore allows users to upload data and image files.
Geospatial
Geospatial CKAN has advanced geospatial features, covering data preview, search, and discovery. Preview Where structured data with location information is…
Metadata
A CKAN portal provides a rich set of metadata for each dataset.
Publish and Manage Data
An intuitive web interface allows publishers and curators to easily register, update and refine datasets.
Search and Discovery
CKAN provides a rich search experience which allows for quick ‘Google-style’ keyword search as well as faceting by tags and browsing between related datasets.
Themable
You can customize the appearance of your CKAN portal buy following the theming guide.
Visualization
CKAN’s data previewing tool has a host of powerful features for previewing data stored in the DataStore.