A lightweight, backend-free open data portal, powered by Jekyll
Open-source data portals can be really. hard. to install and maintain. But their basic purpose of providing links to download data really isn't that complicated. JKAN is a proof-of-concept that allows a small, resource-strapped government agency to stand-up an open data portal by simply clicking the fork button.
Please note this is still a work in progress! Check out the issues to help out or give feedback.
Just click "Fork" at the top-right of this page. (You'll need a GitHub account).
You can then access it at <your_github_username>.github.io/jkan.
From there, you can use the built-in edit button
on github to edit _config.yml and the datasets in the _datasets directory to manage
your site.
Alternatively, you can use JKAN's user-friendly editing pages.
But doing so requires one more installation step: setting up authentication. Fortunately there's a user-friendly page
for doing that too. Just go to your setup page (ie. <your_github_username>.github.io/jkan/setup)
- Requires Jekyll, a ruby thing
- Run a web server that recompiles on changes using
jekyll serve --baseurl "". Add the experimental--incrementalflag for faster recompilation. - Committing to the
gh-pagesbranch will automatically compile the jekyll site