4.2: Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network

Provide a place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own

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CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own. CKAN's aim is make it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable. Those familiar with freshmeat, CPAN or PyPI can think of CKAN as providing an analogous service for open knowledge. More about CKAN, and the background to its creation can be found in these slides. Thanks to its underlying versioned domain model CKAN has a wiki-like interface that lets anyone add and correct packages. Background CKAN is developed and maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Both the CKAN code and data are open: free for anyone to use and reuse. To find out more check out the the CKAN project at knowledgeforge.net

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