This led the UK Data Service census team to conduct a wide-ranging review of similar platforms that the service could be migrated to.
Why CKAN?
CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network), as turkey rcs data the name might suggest, is related to DKAN. It is the root software that DKAN was built on. This meant that the transfer was relatively pain-free as much of the same functionality exists in CKAN as it does in DKAN.
CKAN, unlike DKAN, is still regularly developed and supported, and there is an active and extensive community of users which means that issues and additionally functionality can be flagged and fixed more effectively. For the UK Data Service team CKAN is also more accessible and easier to work with.
This means that ideas that the team have wanted to implement in the past are now more feasible and easier to do.
Also, because the team have set this up themselves and will manage it directly, we will have additional control moving forward. This means changes and updates can be rolled out more easily on an ongoing basis, rather than in larger upgrades cycles.