Harrison Njamba
h.njamba@cgiar.org, Skype: njamba.kimani
Moving from CKAN to Dataverse
Setting the plan for 2020
4th November 2019

Current ILRI Data Portal
- Based on CKAN
- Programming in Python
with extensions
- Customizations
- Database connections,
- Login rights
- Capacity for
maintenance and
support

Moving To Dataverse Issues to Consider
• Installation
– Local Server
– Amazon web services (AWS)
– Harvard Hosted
• Customizations
– Color Scheme / Logos
– Agrovog, Lookup lists, Tags
– Linking with Dspace, Dataverse, ARES
• Data Transfer
– Current data files
– Databases
– URL Redirection of current datasets
• User Guides
– Self upload of data
– Metadata Template

Thank You