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2025: The Year Opening Data was Great Again
Looking Back at a Transformational Year – and Forward to 2026

Category: AI Chatbot, AI Ready Data, CKAN, Dat...

We’ve been working on Open Data since 2010 and CKAN since 2012. Fifteen years. That’s a long time to believe in something – through hype cycles, budget cuts, acquisitio...

22 Dec

Explore a water data ETL process with Python and Polars
Learn an example of how datHere processed water data for Boerne Utilities

Category: Data Wrangling, Open Data, Research,...

At datHere, I’ve implemented a new water data dashboard for Boerne Utilities, the primary water utility provider of the city of Boerne, Texas. It wasn’t only the web ap...

16 Dec

ckanaction web GUI based on the CKAN Actions API

Category: CKAN, Solutions

At datHere, we’re often working with multiple CKAN data portals and particularly with the CKAN Actions API. Developers working with the CKAN Actions API may often refer to th...

10 Dec

datHere and Open Knowledge Foundation Announce New Partnership to Strengthen Open, FAIR, AI-Ready Data Infrastructure Powered by CKAN

Category: AI Ready Data, CKAN, Data Catalog, M...

The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) and datHere have established a new partnership to advance open standards and AI-ready data infrastructure tooling, standards and practices. The...

22 Oct

ckan-devstaller v0.3.0 – Improved docs and interactive Builder
Explore the new web app for ckan-devstaller and other updates

Category: CKAN, Open Data, Solutions

datHere released ckan-devstaller to assist installing CKAN for development as mentioned in a previous blog post. Since then we’ve updated ckan-devstaller along with improved ...

24 Sep

Democratizing Data Access: Introducing datHere’s AI Chatbot and AI-Ready Data Solutions
AI Chatbot: The “People's API” for datHere CKAN DMS

Category: AI Chatbot, AI Ready Data, CKAN, Dat...

We’re excited to announce two new products that will transform how organizations interact with their data management systems and prepare datasets for the AI era. Today, datHe...

22 Sep

FAIR Data is Federated AI-Ready Data
and is key to “World-Class Scientific Datasets”

Category: AI Ready Data, Business, CKAN, Data ...

In last month’s blogpost – “The case for a FAIR Tech Stack” for America’s AI Action Plan”, we claimed that Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable (FAIR) Data is F...

11 Sep

CKAN is not just for Open Data,it’s also for Opening Your Data

Category: AI Chatbot, AI Ready Data, CKAN, Dat...

CKAN is almost 20 years old! Open Knowledge was there when the Second Wave of Open Data started ; created the Open Definition; and started the CKAN project in the mid-aughts. A lot...

05 Sep

Towards the People’s API
The Journey for an Answering People/Policymaker Interface

Category: AI Ready Data, CKAN, Data Governance...

We’ve been working on Open Data and CKAN since 2010. Even though we’ve helped deploy hundreds of CKAN data portals – if we’re being honest, it hasn’t exactly realized the $3 ...

04 Sep

ckan-devstaller – CLI to Install CKAN in minutes
Install a CKAN instance for development within just a few minutes

Category: CKAN, Open Data, Solutions

ckan-devstaller is an open-source command-line tool built with Rust to install a CKAN instance on Ubuntu 22.04 within minutes for development purposes. CKAN users may be spending h...