1. An API-first approach
Integrating CKAN with RDM services.
Joss Winn, Centre for Educational Research and Development. 24th October 2012

2. Eating Your Own Dog Food:
Building a repository with API-driven development
From the very start, Orbital has been API-centric.
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3. Choosing CKAN for research data management
We switched to CKAN because they caught up with us ;-)
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6. http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api.html
• Access any bit of information in CKAN (if you are authorised!)
• Edit any piece of information in CKAN
• Create a whole new web front-end for CKAN (if you want!)
The CKAN API follows the RESTful style and uses JSON by default.
Client tools in various languages.
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7. Some uses…
• Identify researcher from CRIS
• Create research group
• Create research project
• Set user roles and permissions
• Create dataset record
• Import dataset (from file storage, instrument, ‘big data’, etc.)
• Export dataset (e.g. csv, xls)
• Query dataset (full SQL queries)
• Export for SWORD conversion (e.g. via Bridge to ePrints)
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8. http://demo.ckan.org
Try the up-coming CKAN v2 for yourself!
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