Full table of contents

• User guide
  • What is CKAN?
    • Datasets and resources
  • Registering and logging in
  • Features for publishers
    • Adding a new dataset
    • Extended feature — Add a dataset to an existing topic
    • Extended feature — Fill-in snippet
    • Editing a dataset
    • Dataset collaborators
    • Adding, deleting and editing resources
    • Deleting a dataset
    • Creating a project
    • Managing a project
    • Inviting others to project
  • Finding data
    • Searching the site
    • Extended feature — Temporal search
    • Extended feature — Spatial search
    • Searching within a project
    • Exploring datasets
    • Extended feature — Citing a Dataset
    • Extended feature — Data preview and visualization
  • Data API
  • RDF Serializations
    • Method 1: RDF Endpoints
    • Method 2: Content Negotiation
    • Example
  • ARK Persistent Identifier
    • The Criteria for Assigning ARKs
    • Linking to Dataset via ARK
    • ARK Identifier Metadata (ERC)
    • Defunct ARK Identifier
  • Personalization
    • Managing your news feed
    • Managing your user profile
  • System Limitation
• Maintainer’s guide
  • Installing CKAN
    • Installing CKAN from source
      • 1. Install the required packages
      • 2. Install CKAN into a Python virtual environment
      • 3. Create the FireStore directory
      • 4. Setup a PostgreSQL database
      • 5. Create a CKAN config file
      • 6. Setup Solr (with Chinese and spatial search support)
      • 7. Link to who.ini
      • 8. Create database tables
      • 9. Creating a sysadmin user
      • 10. Serve CKAN under a development server
    • Deploying a source install
      • 1. Create the WSGI script file
      • 2. Create the WSGI Server
      • 3. Modify the configuration file
      • 4. Install Supervisor
      • 5. Set the startup script for CKAN
      • 6. Set the startup script for XLoader
      • 7. Restart Supervisor
      • 8. Install and setup nginx
      • 9. Test the site
  • Translating depositar
    • String internationalization
    • Extract strings and edit translations
  • Writing documentation
    • Getting started
      • Install documentation into a Python virtual environment
      • Edit the reStructuredText files
    • Build the docs
    • Publish the docs
• Appendix
  • Metadata
    • Dataset Level
      • Basic Information
      • Spatio-temporal Information
      • Management Information
    • Resource Level
  • Manual for Validators and Converters
    • Internal Validators and Converters
    • External Validators and Converters
    • Validators and Converters Used for Metadata
      • Dataset Level
        • Basic Information
        • Spatio-temporal Information
        • Management Information
      • Resource Level
  • Mapping of metadata to RDF Vocabularies
    • DCAT Profile
      • Namespaces
      • Mappings
        • Dataset Level
        • Resource Level
      • Mappings for Child Elements
      • Field Transforms
        • Dataset Level
        • Resource Level
  • Others
    • PARSE.Insight Content-types
• Changelog