About
CKAN is the world’s leading open-source data portal platform.
CKAN is a complete out-of-the-box software solution that makes data accessible and usable – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data (including storage of data and provision of robust data APIs). CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and providers) wanting to make their data open and available.
CKAN is used by governments and user research themes worldwide and powers a variety of official and community data portals including portals for local, national and international government, such as the UK’s data.gov.uk and the European Union’s publicdata.eu, the Brazilian dados.gov.br, Dutch and Netherland government portals, as well as city and municipal sites in the US, UK, Argentina, Finland and elsewhere.
CKAN: http://ckan.org/
CKAN Tour: http://ckan.org/tour/
Features overview: http://ckan.org/features/