CKAN is the world’s leading open-source data portal platform. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and work with data. It's a data management system that provides a powerful platform for cataloging, storing and accessing datasets with a rich front-end, full API (for both data and catalog), visualization tools and more. Read more at ckan.org.
See the CKAN Documentation for installation instructions.
If you need help with CKAN or want to ask a question, use either the ckan-dev mailing list, the CKAN chat on Gitter, or the CKAN tag on Stack Overflow (try searching the Stack Overflow and ckan-dev archives for an answer to your question first).
If you've found a bug in CKAN, open a new issue on CKAN's GitHub Issues (try searching first to see if there's already an issue for your bug).
If you find a potential security vulnerability please email security@ckan.org, rather than creating a public issue on GitHub.
For contributing to CKAN or its documentation, see CONTRIBUTING.
Subscribe to the ckan-dev mailing list to receive news about upcoming releases and future plans as well as questions and discussions about CKAN development, deployment, etc.
If you want to talk about CKAN development, say hi to the CKAN developers and members of the CKAN community on the public CKAN chat on Gitter. Gitter is free and open-source, and you can sign in using your GitHub, GitLab, or X (formerly known as Twitter) account.
The logs for the old #ckan IRC channel (2014 to 2018) can be found here: https://github.com/ckan/irc-logs.
If you've figured out how to do something with CKAN and want to document it for others, make a new page on the CKAN wiki and tell us about it on the ckan-dev mailing list or on Gitter.
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