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
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The instruction to install or use the administration functionalities of Idra can
be found at the corresponding section of
Read The Docs.
The User Guide for Idra can be found at the corresponding section of
Read The Docs.
API Reference Documentation (Apiary):
A demo instance of Idra - Open Data Federation Platform is available at the
following link:
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suggestions. You can use GitHub issues
to provide feedback.
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