A no-frills open data portal built with node, express, mongodb and angular.
- You don't need expensive or complicated software to have an Open Data Portal
- "Bells and Whistles" on Open Data Portals tend to get in the way of raw data access
- Discoverability first, download second, utility somewhere else
- Link to the data "where it lies". No need to host it all in the same place... host individual datasets where they are most useful and easiest to access
- RSOD is just a searchable metadata catalog. That's it. No mapping, charting, data APIs, databases, user accounts, etc...
- Designed around the data.json catalog standard.
- Built on a modern stack - MEAN - MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js - Full Stack javascript FTW
- Developed by Civic Hackers and Open Data Enthusiasts who want to give data publishers another open source option for Open Data
People who want to create a searchable, standards-compliant open data catalog should be able to do so in just a few minutes. RSOD is a multi-tenant web app that will have a custom subdomain for each open data portal. ({myorg}.reallysimpleopendata.com) RSOD is a simple catalog UI and metadata store, all of the data will be hosted externally.
- Each portal's catalog data is stored in MongoDB in the same structure as data.json. Here's some info on data.json
- The frontend consumes a valid data.json endpoint.
- Angular loads the entire data.json file once. All searching & filtering are done in the browser. No server side rendering, no pagination. This may be more difficult as a catalog grows.
- The admin can choose to upload data files to the server, or link to existing files elsewhere on the web.
- Layout based on CKAN catalog
##Data
- Data will be stored elsewhere. The user can paste in a link and choose the correct resource type.
- One idea is to eautomate the use of third party services. (put in your Amazon S3 key and RSOD will retain it and give you a UI for uploading files when you create a dataset. Same for CartoDB, Github, generic FTP server, etc. RSOD can act as broker for the upload, but never hosts the data itself.)
##API
Root URL:http://{myorg}.reallysimpleopendata.com
/data.json OR /datasets
Gets the dataset as an array of objects for the current subdomain
#CRUD
POST /dataset Create new dataset
GET /dataset/:id Get one dataset
PUT /dataset/:id Update dataset
DELETE /dataset/:id Delete dataset
##Login There is one login and password for each domain, this user will have the ability to create, update, and delete datasets.
- Node developers
- UI/UX Help
- Design Help
- Coming soon, this project is still in development. Please feel free to contribute!
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
