Blog
28
Aug
CKAN 2.12 is out. What is the rest of the ecosystem running?
Category: CKAN, Data Catalog, Metadata, Open D...
This week, the CKAN Tech Team announced 2.12.0, the biggest release the project has shipped in a while, along with security patches for the 2.11 and 2.10 series. If you haven’...
19
Aug
Data Schematic: A Neuro-symbolic, Visual, Story-telling Data Explorer/DictionaryReimagining Data Dictionaries in the Age of AI
Category: AI Chatbot, AI Ready Data, CKAN, Dat...
Background Back in 2016, our first startup – Ontodia, won Boston’s solicitation to upgrade their Data Portal as part of the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge for...
14
Jul
Managing Bots on Our CKAN Sites Part-2Rogue Scrapers and AI Bots
Category: AI Ready Data, CKAN, Data Catalog, R...
In Part 1, we covered the well-behaved bots – Googlebot, Bingbot, and the rest of the crawlers that actually read robots.txt and do what it says. Disallow rules, crawl-delay,...
14
Jul
Managing Bots on Our CKAN Sites Part 1Robots.txt, Crawl-Delay, and CKAN Template Fixes
Category: CKAN, Data Catalog, Open Data, Solut...
Every CKAN portal we run – open data catalogs, enterprise metadata catalogs – gets crawled constantly. Most of that traffic isn’t human. It’s bots: search e...
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...
