Easy Knowledge Archive Network (EKAN)

A simplified and 'Easier' version of a Knowledge Archive Network, inspired from CKAN and DKAN. Built with Python, Django, Django-REST, Vue, Bootstrap, and Font Awesome.

Installation

1. Install Python 3.5+ and PIP
2. Clone repository (git clone https://github.com/schajee/ekan.git)
3. Create and activate virtual environment (virtualenv env and source env/bin/activate)
4. Install dependencies (pip install -r requirements.txt)
5. Copy .env.example to .env and adjust as required
6. Build and run migrations (python manage.py makemigrations and python manage.py migrate)
7. Create Superuser (python manage.py createsuperuser or python manage.py seed admin)
8. Load initial data through fixtures (python manage.py loaddata init.json)
9. Run server (python manage.py runserver)

Information Architecture

The system consists of a few basic entities...

• A Resource is the basic unit of information or data. A resource can be a file or a url to a file that contains data.
• A Dataset is a collection of resources. Datasets are categorized into topics, and belong to an organisation.
• An Organisation is a government entity that owns the data that it publishes. Organisations have managers who are responsible for maintaining the datasets and resources.
• A Topic is a classification mechanism to tag datasets into thematic areas. This allows users to find related datasets. A dataset can belong to multiple topics.

In addition, a resource can be of a Format, while a dataset is released under a License. Organisation's managers are Staff users who have access to Admin for editing and managing content.

Current Status

EKAN is currently under active development. Contributions, discussions, and especially pull-requests are very welcome.