ckanext-semantictags

CKAN SemanticTags plugin offers the possibility for Open Data Portals to tag their datasets with semantic resources.

What can you do with the SemanticTags plugin?

With the SemanticTags plugin you can:

• Relate your CKAN tags to semantic resources;
• Define custom RDF predicates for linking your datasets with the Linked Open Data cloud
• Connect several CKAN instances through the use of global semantic tags

Why a SemanticTags plugin?

CKAN offers from core an RDF description of the set of metadata of each database. However, linking the databases to external semantic resources was not possible. SemanticTags fills this gap, allowing datasets to be tagged with LOD resources.

Screenshots

Settings - Associations between tags and registered semantic tags.

Dataset - Link to tags and associated semantic tags

RDF output, linking dataset to the Linked Open Data cloud.

Requirements

CKAN >= 2.4

Installation

To install ckanext-semantictags:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
   

2. Install the ckanext-semantictags Python package into your virtual environment:

   pip install ckanext-semantictags
   

3. Run the database migration:

   paster --plugin=ckanext-semantictags semantictags migrate -c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini
   

3. Add semantictags to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/production.ini).

4. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

   sudo service apache2 reload
   

Development Installation

To install ckanext-semantictags for development, activate your CKAN virtualenv and do:

git clone https://github.com/alantygel/ckanext-semantictags.git
cd ckanext-semantictags
python setup.py develop
paster --plugin=ckanext-semantictags semantictags migrate -c /etc/ckan/default/development.ini

Add semantictags to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN

config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/development.ini).

Use

Navigate to yoursite/semantictags

Acknowledgements

This work was driven in the context of the research STODaP project, developed at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the University of Bonn (Germany)