govCMS CKAN

govCMS CKAN provides integration with CKAN (http://ckan.org/). CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data.

This module provides a connector to any CKAN DataStore endpoint and pluggable visualisation layer using ctools.

Development and issue management is via GitHub

govCMS CKAN development is carried out on Github: https://github.com/govCMS/govCMS-ckan
Issues and Pull Requests are welcome there. Commits are synced here to D.O. after they are merged.

Features

• Configurable CKAN endpoint (with or without API key for public or authenticated access)
• Fieldable entities allow for additional flexibility with CKAN data entities
• Create an instance of any data available via the CKAN DataStore
• Requires clean, tabular data resources
• Control over queries and display of data
• Select which keys are used in the display
• Enter optional full-text query or dictionary of key/value filters
• Pluggable visualisation layer for graphs, charts, and really.. anything!
• Comes with three visualisations out of the box: Bar chart, Line chart, Spline chart
• Each visualisation has it's own set of configuration, for example the ability to create a stacked bar, render horizontally or vertically, add data points to labels
• ctools plugin means you can create your own visualisation types
• Easy embed in WYSIWYG (via the Media module)
• Configure a global palette for visualisations, or override on a case-by-case basis
• Export visualisations as SVG/PNG (with configurable size)