Unlocking Transparency: Open Data Management and Metadata Standards with Drupal and DKAN
Data catalogs are an integral part of open government and transparency policies around the world. By bringing data publishing, sharing, and metadata standardization into Drupal, the DKAN module aims to make data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (“FAIR”) for agencies and the public.
Join CivicActions’ Liz Tupper, Director of Product, and Dan Feder, Co-Maintainer of DKAN, as they show how they have built modern, standards-focused, and API-first open data catalogs for a variety of specific use cases.
In this session, we will demonstrate how we have used Drupal’s features as a foundation for storing and presenting data and metadata and how we have built alternatives to several Drupal paradigms to better integrate with open standards and wider data ecosystems. We will also look a bit toward the future and explain how DKAN is preparing to meet the needs of new, more powerful metadata standards (such as DCAT-US v3) and new types of data consumers (such as Large Language Models).
We will cover:
- A brief overview of DKAN and how it is used in government
- Demo of standing up a data catalog from scratch and customizing its schema, with a look at what’s happening behind the scenes
- How we develop DKAN collaboratively and in the open
- Our current roadmap
Liz Tupper
Director of Product @ CivicActions
Dan Feder
Senior Back-End Engineer @ CivicActions
https://drupal-govcon-2024.sessionize.com/session/716884
Join CivicActions’ Liz Tupper, Director of Product, and Dan Feder, Co-Maintainer of DKAN, as they show how they have built modern, standards-focused, and API-first open data catalogs for a variety of specific use cases.
In this session, we will demonstrate how we have used Drupal’s features as a foundation for storing and presenting data and metadata and how we have built alternatives to several Drupal paradigms to better integrate with open standards and wider data ecosystems. We will also look a bit toward the future and explain how DKAN is preparing to meet the needs of new, more powerful metadata standards (such as DCAT-US v3) and new types of data consumers (such as Large Language Models).
We will cover:
- A brief overview of DKAN and how it is used in government
- Demo of standing up a data catalog from scratch and customizing its schema, with a look at what’s happening behind the scenes
- How we develop DKAN collaboratively and in the open
- Our current roadmap
Liz Tupper
Director of Product @ CivicActions
Dan Feder
Senior Back-End Engineer @ CivicActions
https://drupal-govcon-2024.sessionize.com/session/716884