PublicData.eu is striving to become the Pan European one-stop-shop, providing access to open, freely reusable datasets from numerous local, regional and national public bodies across Europe.
After the first release of the PublicData.eu website (Alpha release was Jan 2011 & Beta release was June 2011) and it's subsequent upgrades (a significant upgrade was efected March 2012), OKFN worked towards the deployment of various personalization features, meant to improve the user experience on Publicdata.eu and spur more interest and interaction around the official data-sets.
6. The Open Knowledge Foundation
We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting
openness in all its forms (data + content)
We build:
Communities + Tools
7. What does open mean?
A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use,
reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and share-alike.
http://opendefinition.org/
13. Serves two main markets
1. search and discoverability for end users and re-
users of data
2. data management tools for publishers
14. Search and discovery
Provides an online home for data
Browsing
Keyword search
Faceting by tags, formats, topics, countries and any
metadata field
Standardized interface for viewing
16. Data Management for Publishers
Easily store and update metadata records
Workflow and approval
Fine grained authorization controls
Broken link reports
Download and view counts
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18. Add and edit dataset metadata through a simple user interface,
allowing you to:
- add further resources/files
- group and tag your dataset, making it easier to find through
browsing
- add maintainer, source and contact details
- create custom additional fields
25. Harvesting and normalization
Get metadata from external catalogs and endpoints
CKAN will parse, validate and normalise to create
metadata records that look the same to end users no
matter where they came from
We can currently harvest: other CKAN catalogs,
CSW endpoints and WAFs serving ISO 19139
documents
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28. Federation
Search across catalogs in aggregator sites (such as
publicdata.eu)
Data Catalog Interoperability Protocol: http://spec.
datacatalogs.org/
29. Multilingualism
Translated by the community into over 18 languages
Fully supports all international characters
Added multilingual search, setting dataset language
level, string translations using a vocabulary & more
for the European Commission Open Data Portal
30. Open Source
All our code is on Github: https://github.
com/okfn/ckan
Open issue tracker
Code contributions: https://github.
com/okfn/ckan/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst
Documentation