Idra - Open Data Federation Platform
Idra is a web application able to federate existing Open Data Management Systems (ODMS) based on different technologies providing a unique access point to search and discover open datasets coming from heterogeneous sources. Idra uniforms representation of collected open datasets, thanks to the adoption of international standards (DCAT-AP) and provides a set of RESTful APIs to be used by third party applications.
Idra supports natively ODMS based on CKAN, DKAN, Socrata, Orion Context Broker (NGSI v2, NGSI-LD) and many other technologies: Idra provides also a set of APIs to federate ODMS not natively supported. In addition, it is possible to federate generic open data portals, that don't expose API, using the web scraping functionality or providing a dump file of the datasets in DCAT-AP format. Furthermore, Idra provides a SPARQL endpoint in order to perform queries on 5 stars RDF linked open data collected from federated ODMS and allows to easily create charts based on federated open datasets (through DatalEt-Ecosystem Provider DEEP )
Idra is an open source software developed by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA inside the EU founded project "FESTIVAL". This project is part of FIWARE. For more information check the FIWARE Catalogue entry for Data Publication. The roadmap of this FIWARE GE is described here
Content
Install
The instruction to install or use the administration functionalities of Idra can be found at the corresponding section of Read The Docs.
Usage
The User Guide for Idra can be found at the corresponding section of Read The Docs.
API
API Reference Documentation (Apiary):
Idra Demo
A demo instance of Idra - Open Data Federation Platform is available at the following link:
Contribution
Before start to contribute, please read and sign the Contributor License Agreement.
Support / Contact
Any feedback on this documentation is highly welcome, including bugs, typos and suggestions. You can use GitHub issues to provide feedback.
- Idra support: [email protected]
Contacts
- Martino Maggio: [email protected]
- Giuseppe Ciulla: [email protected]
License
Idra - Open Data Federation Platform is licensed under Affero General Public License (GPL) version 3.
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