A big thank you to @yoanapopova for inviting us to present at last week’s CKAN Monthly Live! It was a pleasure to spend the hour with so many of you and have the opportunity to showcase some of the ways CKAN is being adopted. adapted, and extended by folks around the world.
In a bit of a meta showcase of precisely that very thing, the session opened with @jqnatividad’s unveiling of the CKAN Ecosystem Catalog. Developed by the team at datHere, the Catalog brings together hundreds of CKAN sites, over a thousand extensions, and a growing collection of tools and resources from across the ecosystem into a single searchable directory. When you have a moment, take some time to browse the catalog and, if you have a site, extension, or tool that is listed, be sure to log in and update your metadata (you can find instructions here).
In recognition of the United Nations’ Open Source Week, we were also delighted to welcome Nadine Levin from UN OCHA, who shared how the Humanitarian Data Exchange uses CKAN to support the management and dissemination of humanitarian data. Her presentation highlighted the team’s new tabular data endpoints, which provide stable, machine-readable access to thousands of humanitarian datasets.
We were also grateful for the opportunity to introduce this community Forum and to hear your thoughts about how you would like to use it. Stay tuned for a recap of that conversation - it generated quite a bit of rich feedback and thinking, which I look forward to sharing with you all in more detail later next week.
Before we wrapped for the day, we were also treated to a preview of a super creative music directory built on CKAN by Wolfgang Clauss of Ondics GmbH. You can learn more about that by watching the recording here - we’ll look forward to featuring it here in the future as well as it continues to develop.
Thank you again to everyone who joined us and helped make the session such a success. If there was a topic raised during this Monthly Live that you’d like to continue exploring, please share it here.