Designed for publishing open data by national/local governments and research institutions.
Web-based, content management system.
Automated publishing.
Stores data internally, or links to external data from metadata record.
Allows for custom metadata
Weaknesses
Would need to research whether or not all our potential data can be published openly (my guess is yes). <- I think we can write into our policies that all data in the repository is openly accessible.
CKAN (example portal)
Summary
Designed for publishing open data by national/local governments and research institutions. Web-based, content management system. Automated publishing. Stores data internally, or links to external data from metadata record. Allows for custom metadata
Weaknesses
Would need to research whether or not all our potential data can be published openly (my guess is yes). <- I think we can write into our policies that all data in the repository is openly accessible.
Unique functions
Data harvesting. Spatial data hosting.