DKAN allows you to build open data portals in Drupal, enabling organizations to publish and catalog datasets and their metadata. It offers a JSON-based metadata system, a REST API, a datastore for tabular data, and a harvesting system for external sources.
The DKAN module enables organizations and individuals to build open data portals in Drupal. Inspired by CKAN, it provides powerful open source tools for publishing and cataloging datasets and their metadata.
Major features include:
- A JSON-based metadata system, allowing you to create and store complex, nested metadata structures
- Both a fully-featured REST API and an endlessly customizable web UI for editing metadata (via the JSON Form Widget)
- A datastore which imports tabular data files into database tables and exposes them for querying with a JSON API
- A harvest system that loads metadata from external catalogs and other sources (like an RSS reader for datasets)
For full project documentation, visit our documentation site.
For issues and pull requests, visit our Github project.
For a look at what a data catalog with a decoupled react frontend built on the DKAN APIs might look like, visit our demo site.
Development, merge requests and issue management for DKAN currently happen at our GitHub project. Starting with DKAN 4.0, releases have moved to Drupal.org. Issues and MRs will move here in the future.