The HDX Search extension for CKAN provides specific search functions tailored for the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) platform. This is a fork of the OCHA-DAP ckanext-hdx_search extension.
Key features include:
- Custom search functionality optimized for humanitarian data
- Dataset freshness calculations and logic
- Custom search result templates
- Feature search command for building search indexes
- Enhanced faceting capabilities including HDX Connect
- Breadcrumb integration for improved navigation
- Search history tracking with configurable time windows
- Support for COD (Common Operational Datasets) filtering
- Map explorer integration
The extension customizes CKAN’s search behavior to better serve humanitarian data discovery needs, including organization acronym display in search results and sorting by last modified date by default.