The document discusses the history and development of open data portals and platforms. It notes the launch of early government open data portals like Data.gov in 2009 and the growth of the open data ecosystem. It then describes the open source CKAN platform and how the DKAN distribution was created to bring open data capabilities to the Drupal content management system, allowing governments already using Drupal to more easily publish and manage open data. The document provides an overview of DKAN's features and ongoing development areas.

1. 2013 US Federal Project Open Data

2. 2009 Data.gov

3. 2009 Data.gov.uk

4. Facili&es
2012 Local Laws....

5. Facili&es
Resulting in New Open Data Portals

6. Open
Data:
Government
Opera/ons
Innova/on
Facili&es

7. Open
Data:
Civic
Empowerment
Facili&es

8. Open
Data:
Economic
Development
Facili&es
(Shout-­‐Out:
Portland
CivicApps
<-­‐-­‐>
CitySync)

9. 2013 Civic Open Data Ecosystem:
100s of Companies, 1000s of Governments,
10,000s of Apps, 1,000,000s of Data Sets...

10. Proprietary SaaS Open Data Portal
Market Leaders

11. Open Source Market Leader

12. In 2012 CKAN Broke Out...

13. CKAN In the US

14. CKAN Worldwide

15. • No vendor lock-In / choice of consultants / ability to build in-
house capacity
• Collaborate w/ our peers (White House)
• Security transparency (US DoD is a major consumer for this
reason)
• Open-Source platforms often pay more heed to open formats
and standards (e.g.: DCAT, RDFa, OData, JSON vs Shapefiles, PDF,
etc.)
• Innovation: healthy open-source projects can aggregate more
engineering effort than proprietary alternatives, propagate great
new extensions faster
• Freedom of Hosting Options: consume as a cloud-hosted
service today, change our mind and host in-house tomorrow, etc.
Why Open-Source Matters...

16. http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
But
Data.gov.uk,
Data.gov,
HealthData.gov,
OpenGovPlaGorm,
etc.
all
added
Drupal
to
CKAN

17. If
you
Already
Use
Drupal,
Do
You
Really
Need
CKAN?

18. With
DKAN
Distro,
Drupal
Itself
Now
Also
Becoming
a
Public
Sector
Data
Management
System
(“DMS”)

19. •
MATURE:
>1
million
sites
(2%
of
all
sites),
3,718
Code
commits/wk,
6,388
issue
comments/wk
•
IN-­‐HOUSE
SKILLS:
24%
of
.gov
sites
•
EXTENSIBLE:
18,489
Modules,
1,512
Themes,
21,009
Contributors
•
FISMA-­‐CerZfied
Cloud
HosZng
OpZons
•
INTEGRATES
easily
w/
public
websites
lots
of
de
facto
data
is
already
published
as
content
Why Drupal?

20. Why Drupal? Open Content since 2009...

21. 21
WhiteHouse.gov

22. NYSenate.gov

23. h_p://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Content = Data (Legislative Committees)

24. Open Data Sets Catalog

25. Custom Search for Special Data Types

26. http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Allow Data to be Augmented

27. Make it Easily Discoverable...

28. 28
And Accessible Everywhere...

29. http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
...And Easily Shared

30. Drupal
“DKAN”
Distribu&on
Open-­‐Source
Data
Management
System
(DMS)
+
Content
Management
System
(CMS)
=
Streamlined
Data
Collabora&on

31. Open Data is Just “Sharing Your Files”
• Datasets
are
collecZons
of
resources,
with
some
descripZve
metadata
• Resources
are
just
files.
They
can
be
any
kind
of
file,
but
ocen
they
are
CSV
files,
spreadsheets
or
some
other
kind
of
tabular
data
file.
• OrganizaZons
create
datasets
and
upload
resources.
• Data
consumers
can
browse
datasets
and
someZmes
see
visualiza0ons
of
resources.
31

32. DKAN
•
Fully functional data portal housing datasets, Solr search, accessible
via JSON and RDF; csv or xml files uploaded through Drupal, stored in
*SQL, visualized through Recline.js
• Seeks
to
replicate
CKAN
2.0
funcZonality,
design,
standards,
&
API
• Reuses CKAN components wherever possible (e.g.: Recline.js)
• Built with support and input from the Open Knowledge Foundation
• Fully open project, with code on Drupal.org/project/DKAN

33. • DKAN
DistribuZon
DKAN Dataset
module
DKAN Datastore
module
DKAN Components

34. DKAN Walkthrough

35. DKAN Walkthrough

36. DKAN Walkthrough

37. DKAN Walkthrough

38. DKAN Walkthrough

39. DKAN Walkthrough

40. DKAN Walkthrough

41. DKAN Walkthrough

42. Early Returns: CivicInfo British Columbia

43. Early Returns: Data Wisconsin

44. Early Returns: Puerto Rico

45. •
Adding
feedback
on
datasets,
other
social
features
•
Support
for
addiZonal
file
types
•
Adding
DKAN_DataSet
&
DKAN_DataStore
modules
to
other
Distros
•Refactoring
DKAN_DataStore
to
align
with
new
US
Project
Open
Data,
new
OpenData
module
•Offering
enterprise
support
&
hosted
SaaS
DKAN
Ongoing Development

46. Recipes
add /data.html &
/data.json pages
to existing Drupal
site with new Open
Data Module?
(sandbox project)
add data management
&
publishing features
to a Drupal site with
DKAN Data Set &
DKAN Data Store
Modules
deploy new Open
Data Catalog / Portal
with the DKAN
Distribution

47. Followup
andrew@nuams.com
|
@ahoppin
|
nuams.com
aaron@nuams.com
|
h_ps://drupal.org/user/151868
h_p://drupal.org/project/DKAN
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