About our Data Practice

Salsa’s data services

Salsa offers a range of data services, from CKAN applications, portal development and migrations, to ongoing support, patching and hosting. Our services cater to organisations at all stages of their CKAN journey, from those looking to assess options and design a new application, to those ready to build or those with a portal that needs ongoing support and maintenance.

Salsa’s data services include:

CKAN development

We can build your CKAN application so you can manage and publish open data.

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CKAN support and patching

Looking for 24/7 support to cover your CKAN deployment? The Salsa Service Desk provides tailored CKAN support.

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CKAN

CKAN is an open source tool allowing the management and publishing of open data, delivering tangible benefits to citizens.

CKAN is a powerful tool for data custodians, allowing not only management of  data, but to display the data as maps, tables or graphs. CKAN includes a faceted search and enhanced data preview capabilities…all available for free as part of the open source movement.

Our CKAN expertise

• CKAN data portal implementations across Australian states including Victoria, Queensland and Northern Territory
• Experienced CKAN/open data practitioners across disciplines of engagement/project management, open data technical architecture and CKAN development
• Mature CKAN service offerings such as:
  • CKAN viability assessment
  • Strategy, data architecture and schema design
  • Data migration, consolidation and conversion
  • Build and implementation
  • Training
  • Hosting
  • Support
• Architecting CKAN hosting solutions for high availability, high throughput and using fully open source stacks (such as Lagoon)
• Delivery of open data implementations (see CKAN case studies) such as:
  • Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
  • Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation
  • A number of Victorian agencies
  • Northern Territory Government’s (NTG) Open Data Portal
  • Victoria Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
  • Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
• Provider of CKAN/open data thought leadership, with the ability to inject a broader CKAN context into specific client engagements 
• Track record in blending CKAN/open data with other open standard consolidation enablers such as Drupal, Lagoon, Laravel, open APIs, etc.