Technical resources

The Datasets Catalogue section uses CKAN software, which has been produced by the Open Knowledge Foundation.

The following CKAN extensions have been installed:

• dcat (open licence): This extension provides plugins that allow CKAN to expose and consume metadata from other catalogues using RDF documents serialized using DCAT (Data Catalog Vocabulary).
• fluent (open licence): This extension provides a way to store and return multilingual fields in CKAN datasets, resources, organizations and groups.
• scheming (open licence): This extension provides a way to configure and share CKAN schemas using a JSON schema description.
• hierarchy (open licence): Plugin for creating a new hierarchical arrangement of organizations.
• basiccharts (open licence): Plugin for rendering previews (tables and charts).
• switzerland (open licence): Based on this extenstion for developing multilingual DCAT-AP schemas for datasets, groups and organizations.
• ldap (open licence): Functionality to connect with the corporate LDAP of the entity.
• spatial (open licence): Extension that allows you to store and manage geolocation data.
• geoview (open licence): Functionality that allows you to display georeferenced information of dataset.
• repeating (open licence): This extension provides a way to store repeating fields in CKAN datasets, resources, organizations and groups.
• zippreview (open licence): This extension allows end user to visually see the folder structure without downloading the actual zip file.

Furthermore, the Portal developers have created four CKAN extensions to add the necessary functionalities: a general one, ckanext-bizkaiaOpenData, and one for each supported language: Spanish, ckanext-bizkaiaOpenDataES, Basque, ckanext-bizkaiaOpenDataEUS, and English, ckanext-bizkaiaOpenDataEN.