We had an extremely short turn-around on upgrading and extending South Australia’s existing open data portal. Not only was the software already running, but it was already being used to support their data release process. We had to ensure we delivered the changes without interrupting their work.
Our solution
Over a three-week period, Whythawk assembled a small team of developers and designers to create a custom theme for South Australia which reflected their official design standards, as well as extend CKAN. These new features included:
- Changes to
GroupsandOrganisationfunctionality. - Support bulk dataset updates within
Organisations. - Authentication to integrate with existing institutional systems.
- Faster reindexing for data updates.
There were also a host of legacy bug fixes which needed addressing.
Outcomes
We completed the upgrades on time and the software went live in March 2013.
