CKAN: The Open Source Data Portal Software

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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 <http://ckan.org/>_.

Installation

See the CKAN Documentation <http://docs.ckan.org>_ for installation instructions.

Support

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.

.. _CKAN tag on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ckan .. _archives: https://groups.google.com/a/ckan.org/g/ckan-dev .. _GitHub Issues: https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues .. _CKAN chat on Gitter: https://gitter.im/ckan/chat

Contributing to CKAN

For contributing to CKAN or its documentation, see CONTRIBUTING <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>_.

Mailing List

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.

Community Chat

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.

Wiki

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.

.. _ckan-dev: https://groups.google.com/a/ckan.org/forum/#!forum/ckan-dev
.. _#ckan: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ckan
.. _CKAN Wiki: https://github.com/ckan/ckan/wiki
.. _CKAN chat on Gitter: https://gitter.im/ckan/chat


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