In my academic library, we recently looked at new repository solutions and I had searched high and low for university libraries that used it and didn’t find any. Upon further research, we realized that CKAN is really meant for organizational data producers like governments or NGOs, because the organization — not individual author(s) — is the authorial unit.

Tl;dr: It means a lot less metadata about individual authors and complicated user authorization levels.

There were some other minor flaws, but that did it for us.


Sarah Swanz
On Apr 27, 2023, 9:56 AM -0500, Jenna Jordan <[log in to unmask]>, wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I wanted to reach out to this community to see if anyone was aware of
> academic institutions using CKAN or Socrata to power their data
> repositories. CKAN/Socrata are used frequently by governments to publish
> their open data (for example, I'm on the Analytics Team at City of Boston
> and we use CKAN for our open data site, data.boston.gov), but we are
> coordinating with a local university who is trying to use CKAN to power a
> data sharing site for the data science program, and they wanted to know if
> any other universities are doing the same thing. I was not aware offhand of
> any academic institutions using CKAN.
>
> Thanks for any information!
> Jenna Jordan
> Data Engineer, City of Boston