IVPR / OIC bringing the Weave visualization platform to CKAN

The CKAN Association is always looking to further enhance the visualization options available for the CKAN data management platform. We are therefore delighted to connect with the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Open Indicators Consortium who have led the development of Weave (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment), a richly featured, open source data visualization platform for the web.

WEAVE running using CKAN

Weave is a state-of-the-art system which provides software tools that researchers, educators, analysts, trainers, students, and the general public can use to interactively analyze, visualize and disseminate remote, local or distributed data. Weave is the IVPR’s fifth-generation visualization system and incorporates 20 years of research and embedded patented algorithms. Previous generations of this software were desktop versions. Both the earlier versions and Weave were designed to solve complex problems in a variety of application areas including drug discovery, medicine, economics, and national security. The bulk of Weave’s source code is released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), and its core is released under the Mozilla Public License (MPLv2). To facilitate the connection between CKAN and Weave, IVPR recently developed an adaptor for Weave that facilitates bringing CKAN-indexed CSV or XLS files directly into Weave for creating visualizations. The Connecticut Data Collaborative, a founding OIC member, is currently building a site that will integrate CKAN and Weave. For more information about Weave you can:

• Visit the Weave wiki which provides everything needed to install and explore Weave.
• See the many OIC websites using Weave here
• We will keep you posted on new developments as they arise. In the meantime, interested developers should join the Weave-users and Weave-dev google groups to connect with other developers working with Weave.