1. Steering Group Member, Link Digital
WHY CKAN?
Steven De Costa
Steering Group Member, Link Digital

2. Open Data is a Public Good
Talk about the governance and provenance of data. Open Government Data, as an example, can be mapped to CKAN with regard to a jurisdiction and the various roles of government.

3. Minimize Your Transaction Costs
Talk about the governance and provenance of data. Open Government Data, as an example, can be mapped to CKAN with regard to a jurisdiction and the various roles of government.

4. Adaptable to Other Factors
Talk about the governance and provenance of data. Open Government Data, as an example, can be mapped to CKAN with regard to a jurisdiction and the various roles of government.

5. Talk about the governance and provenance of data
Talk about the governance and provenance of data. Open Government Data, as an example, can be mapped to CKAN with regard to a jurisdiction and the various roles of government.

6. Talk about the governance and provenance of data
Talk about the governance and provenance of data. Open Government Data, as an example, can be mapped to CKAN with regard to a jurisdiction and the various roles of government.

7. Why use CKAN? Data portal software: Open Source
Large and expanding installation base within Government worldwide
Expanding use cases in the wider data ecosystem
Python web app, PostgreSQL DB
Built for machines, custodians and end users
The image is generated from google analytics data on ckan.org. Anywhere blue indicates relatively how many visitors arrive at the site from that location. The point to make is that almost everywhere in the world there is someone interested in CKAN.

8. Steering Group Member, Viderum
HOW DOES CKAN OPERATE?
Sebastian Moleski
Steering Group Member, Viderum

9. CKAN OPERATES ON OPEN PRINCIPLES
Openness: The code is open on GitHub
Collaboration: We collaborate via Tech Team meetings, Steering Group and GitHub
Participation: We are all here today!!! So many extensions from so many people…
How we are open, how we collaborate and how we encourage participation.

10. GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
The steering group carries on a number of business activities.
The Technical Group represents contributors and makes all the important decisions.
Everyone is a volunteer yet will typically have a ‘day job’ working in open data.
Just an overview to show there is some structure…

11. WHERE TO GET COMMUNITY HELP
Join the dev mailing list (monitored by tech team):
Search Stack overflow under CKAN:
Check the roadmap on waffle.io:
Join a tech team meeting:
Talk about the various places to get help. Please encourage people to use Stack overflow as the questions and answers are then more discoverable for others over the long term.

12. WHERE TO GET PROFESSIONAL HELP
Contact one of our Association members
These are just the gold level members. It is worth mentioning that any open source company with Python Devs can likely provide a great deal of support.

13. PARTICIPATE VIA MEMBERSHIPS
For those interested in learning more about supporting the association, membership at different levels is one reward.

14. Steering Group Member, OpenGov
WHAT IS CKAN?
Joel Natividad
Steering Group Member, OpenGov

15. DOWNLOAD FROM github.com/ckan/ckan
Explain where to find the code.

16. READ THE DOCS
Talk about the online documentation.

17. CKAN STRUCTURE
>> Organisations (optionally with sub-organisations)
>> >> Datasets
>> >> >> Resources
>> Platform Custodian
>> >> Organisation Custodian, Editor or Member
>> Published or Private datasets
Talk a little about data organisation, user roles, publishing states. Talk also about how these can be used in combination to support distributed publishing with authenticated users.

18. DATA PUBLISHING WORKFLOW
Create an organistation (usually done by platform owner)
Login as member of organisation
Click ‘add dataset’
Step 1: Add a title, description and other metadata
Step 2: Add resources (links to data or upload data files for hosting)
Step 3: Add any additional info
Talk about the basic steps for a data publishing workflow.

19. THE CKAN USER INTERFACE
User registration
User management
Custodian workflows (manage datasets and data resources)
Directory Browse by organisation or group
Faceted search for multiple fields (supporting end user discovery)
Resource views to preview data (a recently improved feature)
Metadata view
Things you can do via the UI.

20. THE CKAN API
Get JSON-formatted lists of a site’s datasets, groups or other CKAN objects
Get a full JSON representation of a dataset, resource or other object
Search for packages or resources matching a query
Create, update and delete datasets, resources and other objects
Get an activity stream of recently changed datasets on a site
These points are direct from the documentation. If you are technical then expand on each with use cases, particularly for supporting extract, transform and load functionality.