Liz Tupper – civicactions.com etupper
Dan Feder – getdkan.org dafeder Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi
Steve Wirt – civicactions.com Swirt
Topics
- What Is DKAN
- Who Uses Open Data
- 20:08 DKAN Origin Story
- Why Drupal Fits DKAN
- From Distribution to Module
- DKAN 2 Rebuild and JSON Shift
- Async Jobs and API First
- How Teams Publish Data
- What a Dataset Really Is
- Metadata vs Data Access
- Why DKAN Left Drupal Org
- Migration Path to DKAN Four
- Harvesting and Data Store ETL
- APIs Visualizations and Bots
- Roadmap Data Store and AI
- Contributing and Where to File Issues
Resources
Guests
Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu
Hosts
Today we are talking about the open data platform DKAN, what it’s used for, and how it applies to Drupal with guests Liz Tupper & Dan Feder. We’ll also cover Modern Drupal Dashboard as our module of the week.
MOTW
Correspondent
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/545
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to have your Drupal site admins start with a fast, widget-based interface that surfaces key site metrics, system health, and operational insights? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Feb 2026 by Gaurav Kapoor (gaurav.kapoor) of werk21 in Berlin
- Versions available: 1.0.5, which works with Drupal core 10.3 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Number of open issues: no open issues
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- With the module installed, site visitors with the new “Access modern dashboard” permission can access a React-based dashboard with widgets to provide insights on topics like:
- Content overview: total content count, published vs unpublished, and per content type breakdown.
- Users overview: user count per role (users with multiple roles are counted in each role), plus pie chart visualization.
- Additional Content (Entity overview): lists all entity types (content + configuration), shows counts, and provides direct “Manage” links.
- Modules overview: installed modules summary, including enabled/disabled and core/contrib breakdown.
- System & status: key environment details such as Drupal core version, PHP version, and database information.
- Health checks: displays Drupal requirement checks grouped by status (pass/warning/error) with a dedicated detail view.
- Each widget can be clicked to open a detail view of the extended data, making it easy for admins to dig into any area
- The widget-based architecture should also help to pull in data from other sources, potentially including things like analytics
