ReallySimpleOpenData (RSOD)

A no-frills open data portal built with node, express,and mongodb.

Key Tenets

• 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. Think of this app as a data.json server.
• Developed by Civic Hackers and Open Data Enthusiasts who want to give data publishers another open source option for publishing an Open Data catalog

Vision

People who want to create a searchable, standards-compliant open data catalog should be able to get started in just a few minutes for free.

##Data

• All data are stored elsewhere. The user can paste in a link and choose the correct resource type.
• One idea is to automate 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.)

Project Needs

• Node developers
• UI/UX Help
• Design Help

Try it out - No guarantees at this point, it's very much in-progress

• Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/chriswhong/ReallySimpleOpenData.git
• Start MongoDB (mongod on a Mac)
• Install dependencies npm install
• Run reallysimpleopendata npm start
• Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser
• Create a new user account and start adding datasets

###To populate with dummy data

• read scripts/README.md for configuration details on how to execute insert.js to populate the DB with datasets from Baltimore

License

• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

##Attribution Latest incarnation is largely based on https://github.com/madhums/node-express-mongoose-demo

Catalog UI based on CKAN