CKAN: The Open Source Data Portal Software

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CKAN is the world’s leading open-source data portal platform. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and work with data. It's a data management system that provides a powerful platform for cataloging, storing and accessing datasets with a rich front-end, full API (for both data and catalog), visualization tools and more. Read more at ckan.org <http://ckan.org/>_.

Installation

See the CKAN Documentation <http://docs.ckan.org>_ for installation instructions.

Support

If you need help with CKAN or want to ask a question about CKAN, use either the ckan-discuss_ mailing list or the CKAN tag on Stack Overflow_ (try searching the Stack Overflow and ckan-discuss archives for an answer to your question first).

If you've found a bug in CKAN, open a new issue on CKAN's GitHub Issues_ (try searching first to see if there's already an issue for your bug).

.. _CKAN tag on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ckan .. _ckan-discuss: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-discuss .. _GitHub Issues: https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues

Contributing to CKAN

For contributing to CKAN or its documentation, see CONTRIBUTING <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst>_.

If you want to talk about CKAN development say hi to the CKAN developers on the ckan-dev_ mailing list or in the #ckan_ IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

If you've figured out how to do something with CKAN and want to document it for others, make a new page on the CKAN wiki, and tell us about it on ckan-dev.

.. _ckan-dev: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev .. _#ckan: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ckan .. _CKAN Wiki: https://github.com/ckan/ckan/wiki

Copying and License

This material is copyright (c) 2006-2014 Open Knowledge Foundation.

It is open and licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3.0 whose full text may be found at:

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html