OPEN DATA SERVICES Helping You to Unlock The Power of Data

We have developed a suite of services and solutions to address the broad spectrum of your management and publishing requirements. Our services which encompass data management, training, support and customisations are delivered by our experienced team of open data consultants and application developers.

CKAN is the world’s leading software for open data portals (see: www.ckan.org). We are the creators and licensors of CKAN and we have been delivering open data solutions for publishing, management, discovery and reuse for over a decade. Our professional services are designed to extend and enhance your data programme, we are also able to customise CKAN to address your specific requirements.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] if you would like to discuss how our solutions can help your organisation to unlock the power of data.

SERVICE PATHWAYS

Which route is right for me?

Getting up and running Have open data Existing CKAN user with open data programme or defined or have in-house publishing? set of requirements? development team?

CKAN EXPRESS CUSTOM CKAN DEVELOPMENT Ready to go hosted open Customization + + SUPPORT data platform deployment / hosting + TRAINING

We are flexible and responsive to your needs. Please contact [email protected]  to obtain more information and to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org CKAN EXPRESS CUSTOM CKAN (SAAS) PORTAL

CKAN Express is ideal for: Municipalities, local Custom CKAN portals are great for: National authorities, universities and other organisations governments, large cities, international seeking to introduce an open data initiative. organisations, research institutes.

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CKAN EXPRESS CUSTOM CKAN

Browser previews for viewing Excel, CSV, geoJSON, and image files  

Ability to easily create chart, graphs and maps for tabular data  

Full authorization and access management (editors, admins, private datasets)  

Browsable, searchable interface with filters (via web interface and catalog API)  

Homepage customisation Standard (logo, layout, colour) 

Standard content management: editable information pages, plus a blog feature  

Datastore and datapusher: allows querying and building on tabular data via Data API  

Ability to be harvested by Data.gov.uk and other aggregators (inc. publicdata.eu)   Enhanced security: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)   Custom domain  

Setting up, basic customisation, system deployment and on-going management including   updates and security fixes

Please contact [email protected] to obtain more information and  to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org CKAN EXPRESS CUSTOM CKAN

Guaranteed uptime and 99.9% system availability SLA   Option to host on own infrastructure  Themed and branded to complement existing sites  Bespoke application extensions developed 

Custom metadata schema using your taxonomies and requirements 

Integration with geospatial servers or other data portals for syncing and federation 

Specialist modifications, extensions or new features for work-flows (e.g. approve stages,  moderation), mapping, visualization, dashboards, spatial previews, showcases, and apps etc.

CKAN Express is available in three Custom CKAN prices depend on convenient price plans. Please the size, scope and complexity of contact [email protected] to get your specific requirements. Please started. contact [email protected] to get started.

Please contact [email protected] to obtain more information and  to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org DEVELOPMENT Extend, Customise & Enhance Your CKAN Implementation

COMMISSIONED WORK For extended work, we recommend purchasing between 2 and 10 consulting days for requirements gathering, scoping, user workshops and analysis. This will enable us to understand your needs, recommend an approach and provide a quote and work plan for the full delivery. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

AD-HOC DEVELOPER & CONSULTANCY DAYS You can also purchase bundles of developer days for working through a backlog or on specific items of work on a time and materials basis. Work with the leading experts, creators and core maintainers of CKAN for:

• Advice on implementing a feature / extension • Walkthroughs and help with deployment, upgrades and maintenance • Small items of custom development • Debugging • Expertise • Troubleshooting

RATES

Between 1 - 10 days Over 10 days * Over 30 days *

£1050 a day £945 a day — 10% discount! £882 a day — 16% discount!

Recommended for Organisations with a defined set of requirements Existing CKAN installations

All prices quoted are exclusive of VAT and in GBP. Errors and omissions excepted (E&OE). Time for project management (generating reports, holding weekly status meetings and daily standups etc) will come out of day total – please allow up to 20% of time for this. * Discounts apply when days are purchased in one order (e.g. on one Purchase Order or contract).

Please contact [email protected] to obtain more information and  to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org services.okfn.org TECHNICAL SUPPORT CONTRACTS Up-to-Date, Secure and Continuous Operations

If you have a CKAN installation (delivered by us, one of our partners, or your team) we recommend that you take up a support contract to ensure you receive the latest updates, security patches and packages of new releases. This will ensure that you can deploy these quickly, securely and easily.

Our support contracts give you priority access to the leading CKAN experts and core developers who will promptly answer your questions, troubleshoot problems or help determine the best the implementations and integrations: ensuring professional expert support for your production site.

Essential Support Premier Support Total Support

£800 p/m £2100 p/m £10,000 p/m

Includes: news on Includes: priority Dedicated project upgrades, security notification and manager and and bug patches guidance for security developer overseeing and bug fixes; your instance Receive real-time packaged upgrade and how fixes or alerts on security upgrades affect your updates set-up Receive information about bug patches

Included developer 1 day a month 3 days 12 days time (8 hours / month) (24 hours / month) (96 hours / month) Alerts on bugs  

Security updates  

Priority notification  

Please contact [email protected] to obtain more information and  to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org TECHNICAL SUPPORT CONTRACTS Maintain Up-to-Date, Secure and Continuous Operations

Essential Support Premier Support Total Support

£800 p/m £2100 p/m £10,000 p/m

CKAN Association 5% 10% Membership discount

Newsletter of developments 

CKAN Summit 5% Discount

Hours of support 10am - 6pm (UTC 0) 10am - 6pm (UTC 0) 8am - 8pm (UTC 0)

Support is delivered from the team that builds and maintains CKAN, for your bespoke needs. Time may be accumulated over a few months to allow bigger features to be built.

Minimal period of 6 months, thence a rolling contract with 1 month notice for cancellation.

Additional benefits:  Access to developer time on short notice  Many of the core CKAN developers/maintainers working with you; gain expertise from the people who build CKAN, and are unparalleled experts in the field  Huge discount to day rates of our one-off developer day bundles  If you don’t use up your days, they carry on to the next month, for up to 3 months

Recommended for Organisations with a defined set of requirements Existing CKAN installations

Please contact [email protected] to obtain more information and  to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org TRAINING Enhance Your Team's Knowledge & Capabilities

OPEN DATA TRAINING Equip your staff with the knowledge, expertise, and confidence to work with open data.

We run regular, ticketed courses in London, Washington D.C. and Berlin. We can also deliver a variety of customized courses on-demand anywhere in the world.

All participants at our courses will receive a certificate of course completion and the option to claim a digital badge to showcase their achievements online.

Open Data in One Day £2,500 This one day course is a short introduction suitable for anyone interested in open data, and a great fit for teams from diverse roles across organisations who are considering adopting open data for the first time or trying to understand how it would be useful to them. The course covers the “what”, “why” and how” of open data and as such is suitable for anyone.

This course is delivered face-to-face and is available for up to 12 delegates at a suitable location of your choice.

Open Data Management £7,500 This course is designed for those specializing in open data, whether as policy experts, open data program managers and similar roles in government, civil service, and other organisations. The course is non- technical in nature and deals with the strategic considerations of managing an Open Data programme within an organisation. Such activities typically include implementing an Open Data strategy, designing and launching an Open Data portal, coordinating publication processes, preparing data for publication, and fostering data re-use.

Recommended for Recommended for Custom CKAN Express CKAN Portals Recommended Training: Open Recommended Training: CKAN Data in One Day and/or Open Technical & Administrator or Data Management Tailored Courses as appropriate Consultancy: Scoping & Requirements Gathering (as required)

Please contact [email protected] to obtain more information and  to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org TRAINING Enhance Your Team's Knowledge & Capabilities

The CKAN workshop was outstanding. Our team grasped most of the inner "workings of the platform by the first hour. There were so many code snippets and demos tailored to our goals that we even solved most of our roadmap by the end of the training. We are eager to start hacking CKAN - expect some pull requests! " Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Director of Open Data, Government of Mexico

CKAN TECHNICAL TRAINING Up-skill your team in specific CKAN skills, from writing extensions, through to advanced sessions on API functions and geospatial features. We offer a range of modules aimed at technical staff and administrators maintaining and running a CKAN site.

Delivery Options Modules for standard courses can be purchased in two-hour blocks when delivered remotely.

• Two hours training block delivered online via Google Hangout £280 • One day face-to-face training delivered on-site £1,500 • Three day face-to-face training delivered on-site £4,500 Note: Course delegates should be programmers, experienced in Python, Linux, and Git.

TECHNICAL MODULES We provide a range of technical modules delivered face-to-face at a suitable location of your choice. Please see below our frequently requested modules (next page). We are also able to offer custom modules. Please allow for additional preparation time for custom modules.

We recommend including at least one 2-hour question and answer session.

Please contact [email protected] to obtain more information and  to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org TECHNICAL TRAINING MODULES Enhance Your Team's Knowledge & Capabilities

Introduction to CKAN Geospatial features Time Required: 2-4 hours Time Required: 4 hours Audience: Non-technical staff and developers Audience: Developers Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: Introduction to CKAN module

By the end of this course delegates will know By the end of this course delegates will know what CKAN is, understand CKAN’s key how to deploy and use CKAN’s geospatial concepts (for example: the concepts of dataset search, harvesting, CSW and preview features and resource), know how to add data to CKAN provided by the ckanext-spatial plugin. and use its search, data management and personalization features, data visualization Harvesting Data capabilities, API and extensions. Time Required: 4 hours Audience: Developers The CKAN API Prerequisites: Introduction to CKAN module Time Required: 2-4 hours Audience: Developers By the end of this course delegates will know Prerequisites: CKAN install, Python how to deploy and use CKAN’s data harvesting features, provided by the ckanext-harvest By the end of this course delegates will know extension. how to write Python apps and scripts that interact with CKAN sites via the CKAN API. Integrating CKAN with your Content Management System* Writing CKAN plugins Time Required: 2 hours Time Required: 4 hours minimum Audience: Developers Audience: Back-end (Python) Developers Prerequisites: CKAN API, Writing CKAN Prerequisites: CKAN install, Python, CKAN API plugins

By the end of this course delegates will By the end of this course delegates will know how to customize and extend CKAN’s know how to integrate CKAN with a content functionality by writing your own CKAN management system like or WordPress.

plugins. * Note: Please allow an extra day for detailed consultation to find out the exact requirements of your system for this course.

Additional costs All on-site/face-to-face training sessions will be subject to additional expenses to cover travel, accommodation and subsistence which will be billed at cost.

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Please contact [email protected] to obtain more information and  to discuss your specific requirements, or visit services.okfn.org