Salsa's data services
Salsa offers a range of data services, from CKAN , portal development and migrations, to ongoing support, patching and hosting. Our services cater to organisations at all stages of their CKAN journey, from those looking to assess options and design a new application, to those ready to build or those with a portal that needs ongoing support and maintenance.
Salsa's data services include:
CKAN development
We can build your CKAN application so you can manage and publish open data.
CKAN support and patching
Looking for 24/7 support to cover your CKAN deployment? The Salsa Service Desk provides tailored CKAN support.
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CKAN
is an open source tool allowing the management and publishing of open data, delivering tangible benefits to citizens.
CKAN is a powerful tool for data custodians, allowing not only management of data, but to display the data as maps, tables or graphs. CKAN includes a faceted search and enhanced data preview capabilities...all available for free as part of the open source movement.
Our CKAN expertise
- CKAN data portal implementations across Australian states including Victoria, Queensland and Northern Territory
- Experienced CKAN/open data practitioners across disciplines of engagement/project management, open data technical architecture and CKAN development
- Mature CKAN service offerings such as:
- CKAN viability assessment
- Strategy, data architecture and schema design
- Data migration, consolidation and conversion
- Build and implementation
- Training
- Hosting
- Support
- Architecting CKAN hosting solutions for high availability, high throughput and using fully open source stacks (such as Lagoon)
- Delivery of open data implementations (see CKAN case studies) such as:
- Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
- Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation
- A number of Victorian agencies
- Northern Territory Government’s (NTG) Open Data Portal
- Victoria Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
- Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
- Provider of CKAN/open data thought leadership, with the ability to inject a broader CKAN context into specific client engagements
- Track record in blending CKAN/open data with other open standard consolidation enablers such as Drupal, Lagoon, Laravel, open APIs, etc.
Case studies
QLD Government — CKAN services to sync metadata across data catalogues
Syncing metadata across QLD’s Environment and Science data catalogues using CKAN to deliver a consolidated, whole-of-government data resource for citizens and scientists.
QLD Government — CKAN services to sync metadata across data catalogues
Syncing metadata across QLD’s Environment and Science data catalogues using CKAN to deliver a consolidated, whole-of-government data resource for citizens and scientists.
Victorian Government — CKAN for datasets
Migrating open datasets onto CKAN and creating a new user interface to open up more Victorian datasets.
Data.vic — Victoria's whole-of-government open data portal
A whole-of-government open data CKAN platform that lets people discover, share and access Vic Government open data.
Victorian Government — open data, open source, open source platform
Open data managed with open source software CKAN and hosted on open platform Lagoon for open government.
Queensland's open data portal
Updated CKAN open data portal at data.qld.gov.au to drive open data use in Queensland.
QLD Government — data catalogue
Designing and building an environmental data catalogue for QLD’s Department of Environment & Science to inform decisions about major environmental challenges.
Latrobe Valley Regional Rehabilitation Strategy (LVRRS) — CKAN data portal
New CKAN data portal with multiple customisations to help drive data use in Victoria.