
ckanext-dgu - data.gov.uk extension
This is an extension to CKAN that provides customisations specifically for the data.gov.uk project.
The official version is available at: https://github.com/datagovuk/ckanext-dgu
Contributions from 1st March 2012 are by the Cabinet Office. It is Crown Copyright and opened up under both the Open Government Licence (OGL) (which is compatible with Creative Commons Attibution License) and the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3.0. Before 1st March 2012, contributions are Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Open Knowledge Foundation. This material is open and licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3.0.
OGL terms: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/
AGPL terms: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
Related extensions that data.gov.uk use in addition are: ckanext-archiver, ckanext-harvest, ckanext-spatial, ckanext-os, ckanext-qa, ckanext-social
Plugins
This extension contains a number of elements, principally:
- DGU-specific templates
- Custom dataset edit form - includes a number of custom fields such as temporal_coverage and geographic_coverage.
- Harvest Object inserted into the CKAN package view page.
- DGU-customized search - different facets etc
- Reports (integrated from ckanext-report)
- Drupal integration - Drupal login, user details copied into CKAN, comments below datasets, provide APIs to Drupal for displaying recent datasets
- Authorization customizations - display of users is tightened up
- Feedback form (below datasets)
- gov_daily - a script (for running daily) that save the database dumps for end-users