Today we're kicking off a 3-week training program with participants from the Gulf Region. The training program is designed for government agencies that would like to immerse themselves in the world of...

Open Data & CKAN Training Program kicking off today

We'd like to congratulate Muhammad Ismail Shahzad and Shubham Mahajan for getting their CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) and CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) certifications!We...

Datopians of the month: Ismail & Shubham got their Kubernetes certifications

In this interview Rufus Pollock, president at Datopian, discusses the importance of Open Data, the fact that information alone is not enough to ensure wise decision-making and the potential of Renumer...

Will the revolution be open?

Great news! European Commission has adopted the proposal of the Interoperable Europe Act!The term 'interoperability,' may sound a bit complicated, but it is really all about being able to work togethe...

Great news: European Commission has adopted the proposal of the Interoperable Europe Act!



It's Friday! Many people are waiting for the weekend while we are having an Internal Friday Hackathon! The main goal? To ship out a functioning decoupled frontend after focussed work from our develo...

Internal Friday Hackathon at Datopian: MasterMinds at work!

It's the World Environment Day - the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.A lot has been said on the value of data and its correlation to tackli...

Datopian, Open Data and the Environment

A crucial tool for any organization, data portals perform a range of functions, from providing an easily-searchable catalog of your data to enabling data visualizations and enhancement. This article i...

A Brief Introduction to Data Portals

Data has become increasingly intertwined with our daily lives as more companies collect, analyze, and utilize it—and its use is growing exponentially. Data is everywhere. IoT is opening up new possibi...

On the Value of Data

Do you remember Costas Simatos? He introduced the Frictionless Data community to the Interoperability Test Bed (ITB), an online platform that can be used to test systems against technical specificatio...

A Short Case Study Involving Table Schema Frictionless Specs at the European Union

Currently, CKAN implicitly has four distinct components:Because the DB is usually a separate service we might not strictly consider if part of CKAN as a project (hence the dashed line in the diagram)....

A more decoupled CKAN: making CKAN easier to customize, maintain and extend

After years of work fine tuning our products and developing and expanding our services, we thought it’s time our website reflected how far we’ve come. Here’s a quick overview of some of what’s new.Eve...

Check out our new website!

Effective data management is crucial for public administrations, who collect large amounts of diverse data on a daily basis. They differ from other data-collecting organizations in the sense that the ...

Leveraging CKAN for publishing open data in Germany

In case you missed it, here’s a transcript of Rufus’ insights during the closing debate of the first digital edition of the EU’s annual semantic interoperability conference (SEMIC). Alongside fellow p...

“Is it a bird, is it a plane?” Here’s what Datopian founder & CTO, Rufus Pollock, had to say about data quality at SEMIC 2020

Whether it’s fighting climate change or finding the nearest bus stop, creating insight requires data. The higher the quality of that data, the greater and more reliable the insight. What does good dat...

How to climb the Data Quality Pyramid

He’s speaking again! Here’s a brief overview of why you’ll want to tune in to this year’s edition of SEMIC next week to hear Rufus’ insights on interoperability.



On 15th October 2020, policymakers,...

Datopian founder and CTO, Rufus Pollock, to speak at the EU’s annual semantic interoperability conference (SEMIC)

August 24, 2020 by Patricio del BocaTraveling Datopians is a series of photo essays and journals documenting the adventures of Datopian colleagues, many of whom have used the freedom that comes with o...

Traveling Datopians: #1 Patricio in Europe

July 20, 2020 by Annabel van DaalenWhat do the Victorian physician John Snow, a Danish toilet-locating app, and our president, Rufus, have in common? The punchline: they were all inspired by open data...

What is Open Data?

July 16, 2020 by Annabel van DaalenDatopian are proud to announce a new partnership with publicplan GmbH, a German IT company specialising in open-source software solutions and IT consulting for publi...

Datopian partner with publicplan GmbH to boost CKAN adoption in Germany

This article is a summary of an interview between Rufus Pollock and Richard Pietro for the podcast series Stories from the Open Gov. Rufus tells the story of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s journey, f...

Podcast: Open Knowledge Foundation founder (and Datopian President!) Rufus Pollock shares the the organisation's backstory

July 9, 2020 by Paul Walsh

OpenSpending is one of the longest-running projects both at Open Knowledge Foundation and within the open data ecosystem in its entirety. Starting life in 2009 as Where Doe...

OpenSpending stewardship moving to Datopian

The following is a transcript of a Q\&A with Datopian Founder and President Rufus Pollock about the vision for Datopian over the long-term.We think there is a huge opportunity around data management i...

Datopian Vision Q&A: the need for Data Management, DataOS, Open Source and more

June 22, 2020 by Annabel van DaalenThree months on from Open Data Day 2020 and the reports are out: from budget data in Indonesia and Uganda to renewable energy data in Germany, Datopian’s mini-grants...

Open Data Day 2020 - Mini-Grant Outcomes

Last month, we announced the launch of a new CKAN feature developed by Datopian that allows users to subscribe to datasets. This is an opt-in feature that sends users an email notification when a data...

Subscribe to Datasets: New CKAN Feature Explained

June 12, 2020 by Annabel van Daalen and Rufus Pollock, with graphics by Monika PopovaIn a previous article, we drew an analogy between CMS (that’s ‘content management system’) and DMS (‘data managemen...

Datopian Presents: Headless DMS

June 10, 2020 by Annabel van Daalen and Rufus Pollock, with graphics by Monika PopovaYou’ve heard of a content management system (CMS), but have you heard of a data management system (DMS)? In this ar...

As CMS is to Content, DMS is to Data

June 5, 2020 by Audrey Lobo-PuloAs Open Data Northern Ireland (NI) roll out their new strategy focusing on more open data publications in the civil service and better community outcomes, the future fo...

Open Data Northern Ireland looks to an Open Government future with Datopian

May 12, 2020 by Audrey Lobo-PuloWith a long history in statistical software, the SIS-CC, under the OECD secretariat, recently launched the .Stat Suite in open source. To meet the challenges in making ...

OECD’s SIS-CC .Stat Suite goes Open Source with Datopian

CKAN and Datopian DMS (which is built on CKAN) are an integrated data management solution for managing metadata and data. It provides non-specialist users with an easy-to-use interface, while deep ext...

Understanding access permissioning with CKAN and Datopian DMS

May 5, 2020 by Audrey Lobo-PuloAs the Scottish Cities Alliance invest in new technologies to create ‘Scotland’s eighth city - the smart city’ to accelerate and transform service delivery, Datopian’s o...

Scottish Cities Alliance progressing towards Smart Cities with Datopian

April 29, 2020 by Audrey Lobo-Pulo, Gift EgwuenuAs open data continues to play a pivotal role in supporting the response to the covid-19 crisis, Datopian spoke with Open Data NZ’s, Paul Stone, on the ...

How Open Data can help build Resilient Communities

We are releasing a new service where people can get notified when datasets change.

We believe we can build better products through collaboration. Following past examples, we are now open-sourcing a n...

Release: Subscribe to CKAN datasets

April 23, 2020 by Rufus PollockOnce upon a time, more and more organizations such as enterprises, governments, and NGOs had more and more data from more and more sources, both internal and external. T...

Once upon a time in data land … more and more organizations had more and more data

April 21, 2020 by Audrey Lobo-Pulo, Anuar Ustayev, Gift EgwuenuThe call for action to respond to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has led many public groups and private organisations on a quest to fi...

So you want to join a Covid-19 Data Hackathon?

April 7, 2020 by Audrey Lobo-Pulo, Gift EgwuenuEnerginet is preparing for a new future of renewable energy using integrated open energy data on a CKAN platform in collaboration with Datopian.Photo by ...

Energinet sees a Green Energy Future alongside Datopian

March 31, 2020 by Paul WalshOur colleagues at the Open Knowledge Foundation announced the Joint Stewardship of Frictionless Data in December 2019. Some of that announcement post is below, and I also w...

Announcing Frictionless Data Joint Stewardship

March 24, 2020 by Audrey Lobo-Pulo and Gift EgwuenuIn this article, we share our tips (and traps to avoid!) on working seamlessly in a remote-working setup.Team member exploring trekking as a physical...

Tips on Remote Working: How we do it at Datopian!

March 20, 2020 by Gift EgwuenuHi there, My name is Gift Egwuenu and I’m super excited to share I joined Datopian as a Frontend Developer and Developer Evangelist! 🎉Frictionless Data is an open-source...

Joining the Frictionless Data Team

March 19, 2020 by Paul Walsh

We know many people and organizations around the world are experiencing challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wanted to reach out to our partners and clients to ass...

Datopian and COVID-19

CKAN-Road-Ahead-CKAN-Tech-Team-25-Feb-2020-Presentation-Rufus-PollockDownloadhttps://rufuspollock.com/2015/12/06/ckan-technical-roadmap-thoughts-dec-2015/Here is an overview of the different feature c...

CKAN: Some Ideas for the Road Ahead

January 8, 2020 by Irio MusskopfI was recently faced with the problem of finding an apartment in Berlin. As you might have heard, this task is not getting easier over time. For foreigners who don’t sp...

Running a scraping platform at Google Cloud for as little as US$ 0.05/month

December 18, 2019 by Paul Walsh2019 has been a great year at Datopian, and we wanted to take this opportunity to share with our clients, partners, and the wider community some reflections on the year ...

Datopian: 2019 in review, and looking toward 2020

December 13, 2019 by Paul Walsh

Next year marks the 10th anniversary of Open Data Day! Open Data Day is the annual event where we gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues i...

Getting ready for Open Data Day 2020 on Saturday 7th March

August 23, 2019 by Adam Kariv

DataCity is a project aimed at creating a single repository of all municipal data in Israel. In my presentation at this years’ PyCon Israel, I’ll talk about the project ...

Making our Municipalities more Transparent using Python

March 1, 2019 by Paul Walsh

Effective today, we are renaming Viderum to Datopian. All viderum.com related services (including email) will continue to work as normal, and we will roll out the rebrand ...

Viderum is renaming to Datopian

February 6, 2019 by Paul WalshHello. I’m Paul Walsh and I am the new CEO of Viderum. I moved to Viderum after 5 years at Open Knowledge International, where I have been on the Senior Management Team a...

Viderum in 2019

November 23, 2018 by Rufus PollockOnce upon a time, more and more organizations (enterprises, governments, NGOs) had more and more data from more and more sources (internal and external).They knew/fel...

Once Upon a Time in Data Land

November 6, 2018 by Sebastian Moleski

Open Knowledge International and Viderum are delighted to announce that Rufus Pollock is joining Viderum as President and CEO. Rufus is a pioneer and leader in t...

Announcing Rufus Pollock is Joining Viderum

November 27, 2016 by DatopianThere are a number of note-taking applications in the market, but if you are a power user, it can be hard to find exactly the “right solution”. Depending on your needs, yo...

Note Taking Software

October 9, 2016 by DatopianFinding open source software that creates both beautiful and customised contact forms for your website is tricky. Software that allows you to store responses, inform you of ...

Contact form providers

June 17, 2017 by Sebastian MoleskiA revolutionary new online portal, which gives open access to Denmark’s energy data, is set to spark innovation in smart, data-led solutions for energy efficiency. Th...

New open energy data portal set to spark innovation in energy efficiency solutions

May 23, 2017 by Sebastian Moleski



We are happy to announce that CKAN is now available under the G-Cloud 9 framework. This special program creating a digital marketplace for cloud-based solutions wa...

CKAN now available on G-Cloud 9

January 31, 2017 by Frederic DuboisWho would have thought? When I wrote “You think open source is boring? Think again” in 2004, I never could have dreamt that it would still be relevant twelve years l...

Beyond theory: does open source really matter?

January 23, 2017 by Nikolas BeckerOpen data service provider Viderum is working with Energinet.dk, the gas and electricity operator in Denmark, to share near real-time access to Danish energy data. Us...

Danish Energinet will use CKAN to launch Energy DataStore - a free and open portal for sharing energy data

November 10, 2016 by Frederic Dubois- The king has decided! 5,000 municipalities are going open data in early 2017. Guess where…
\- Hmmm.
\- Let me give you a hint: it's in Europe…
\- Hmmm, a king in ...

Open data: think local, act local

October 31, 2016 by Frederic DuboisBack in 2006, two journalists from The Guardian wrote the article Give us back our crown jewels, in which they pleaded for the UK government to collect the best data...

Open data, a lifeline for journalism?

October 13, 2016 by Frederic DuboisNorthern Ireland, with an estimated population of just under 2 million, hopped onto the open data bandwagon in 2015. Journalist Frédéric Dubois talked to OpenDataNI’...

Northern Ireland: One year of open data “by default”?

October 6, 2016 by Frederic DuboisOpening data is one thing. Many open knowledge activists out there will cheer when seeing yet another city making some of its public interest information available to...

Escaping ‘data blindness’ with the help of data visualisation

October 3, 2016 by Datopian

We are now in the 11th week of our Official Inquiries project. This month, we managed to introduce a simple search feature to the website, that will allow visitors to the ...

September Update!

September 7, 2016 by DatopianWe are now 8 weeks into the Official Inquiries project. One of the most time-consuming challenges the project faces is that of turning PDF files of inquiries into clean, r...

Testing PDF Extraction Tools

August 16, 2016 by Nikolas BeckerAt Viderum, we want to make open data simple. And we want you to get the most out of your CKAN portal. So, today, we’re starting a series of video tutorials showing ho...

New CKAN video tutorial series

December 7, 2015 by Sebastian MoleskiWorking in the fast-growing area of open data, we build open source tools to drive transparency, accountability and re-use. Based on CKAN, we‘ve built the the offi...

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Leveraging CKAN for publishing open data in Germany

Podcast: Open Knowledge Foundation founder (and Datopian President!) Rufus Pollock shares the the organisation's backstory

Subscribe to Datasets: New CKAN Feature Explained

Resource HubA powerful knowledge center tailored to help you navigate the world of data management.

FAQS

Your data queries answered.

GLOSSARY

Demystifying data terms: definitions for the data world.

Tech Knowledge Base

Learn about Datopian's technical solutions.

Data Management Maturity Model

A guide to our data management maturity model and unique framework for building reliable, flexible systems for organizing and integrating data.

Playbook

The heart of Datopian: the way to do things.

Learn more on our blog

Leveraging CKAN for publishing open data in Germany

Podcast: Open Knowledge Foundation founder (and Datopian President!) Rufus Pollock shares the the organisation's backstory

Subscribe to Datasets: New CKAN Feature Explained

Resource Hub
A powerful knowledge center tailored to help you navigate the world of data management.