CKAN

Ballarat Open Data is built on CKAN: an open-source data platform. CKAN is a complete out-of-the-box software solution that makes data accessible and usable – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data (including storage of data and provision of robust data APIs). CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organizations) wanting to make their data open and available.

CKAN is used by governments and user groups worldwide and powers a variety of official and community data portals including portals for local, national and international government, such as the UK’s data.gov.uk and the European Union’s publicdata.eu, the Brazilian dados.gov.br, Dutch and Netherland government

For more information on CKAN see:

CKAN: http://ckan.org/
CKAN Tour http://ckan.org/tour/
Features overview: http://ckan.org/features/

CKAN API: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.8/api/