Blog
19
May
New Gazetteer for the New Mexico Water Data CatalogExplore CKAN geospatial capabilities built for the New Mexico Water Data Catalog
Category: CKAN, Data Catalog, Geospatial, Solu...
Explore CKAN geospatial capabilities built for the New Mexico Water Data Catalog by datHere including a technical overview.
29
Jan
The People’s API is Finally Here!Accelerated Civic Intelligence (ACI) with Opened Data - Part 1
Category: AI Chatbot, AI Ready Data, Business,...
We’ve been pining for the People’s API – the “Answering People/Policymaker Interface” for almost two decades. The first Open Source project Joel really got involved in was Se...
07
Jan
2025: The Year Opening Data was Great AgainLooking 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 PolarsLearn 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 BuilderExplore 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 SolutionsAI 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 Dataand 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...
