Well done CKAN team. I hope to start using it soon. For extracted scientific content.
I note several pages with maps. Does CKAN (have plans to) do geocoding? On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Mark Wainwright <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > CKAN is a powerful, open source, open data management platform, used > by governments and organizations around the world to make large > collections of data accessible, including the UK and US government > open data portals. > > Today we are very happy and excited to announce the final release of > CKAN 2.0. This is the most significant piece of CKAN news since the > project began, and represents months of hectic work by the team and > other contributors since before the release of version 1.8 last > October, and of the 2.0 beta in February. Thank you to the many CKAN > users for your patience – we think you’ll agree it’s been worth the > wait. > > CKAN 2.0 is a significant improvement on 1.x versions for data users, > programmers, and publishers. Enormous thanks are due to the many > users, data publishers, and others in the data community, who have > submitted comments, code contributions and bug reports, and helped to > get CKAN to where it is. Thanks also to OKF clients who have supported > bespoke work in various areas that has become part of the core code. > These include data.gov, the US government open data portal, which will > be re-launched using CKAN 2.0 in a few weeks. > > CKAN 2.0 introduces a new sleek default design, and easier theming to > build custom sites. It has a completely redesigned authorisation > system enabling different departments or bodies to control their own > workflow. It has more built-in previews, and publishers can add custom > previews for their favourite file types. News feeds and activity > streams enable users to keep up with changes or new datasets in areas > of interest. A new version of the API (previously available beta) > enables other applications to have full access to all the capabilities > of CKAN. And there are many other smaller changes and bug fixes. > > For full details, see the blog post: > > http://ckan.org/2013/05/13/announcing-ckan-2-0/ > > If you're in a hurry to try it out, head over to demo.ckan.org where > you can see it in action! > > Mark Wainwright > > -- > Business development and user engagement manager > The Open Knowledge Foundation > Empowering through Open Knowledge > http://okfn.org/ | @okfn | http://ckan.org | @CKANproject > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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