Linked Data and RDF¶
Linked data and RDF features for CKAN are provided by the ckanext-dcat extension:
https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-dcat
These features include the RDF serializations of CKAN datasets based on DCAT, that used to be generated using templates hosted on the main CKAN repo, eg:
- http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/newcastle-city-council-payments-over-500.xml
- http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/newcastle-city-council-payments-over-500.ttl
- http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/newcastle-city-council-payments-over-500.n3
- http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/newcastle-city-council-payments-over-500.jsonld
ckanext-dcat offers many more features, including catalog-wide endpoints and harvesters to import RDF data into CKAN. Please check its documentation to know more about
As of CKAN 2.5, the RDF templates have been moved out of CKAN core in favour of the ckanext-dcat customizable endpoints. Note that previous CKAN versions can still use the ckanext-dcat RDF representations, which will override the old ones served by CKAN core.