Herding-CATs 🐈‍⬛

Version: 0.1.4

Purpose

The aim of this project is simple: create a basic Python library to explore and interact with open data catalogues.

This will improve and speed up how people:

• Navigate open data catalogues
• Find the data they need
• Get data into a format / location for further analysis

Note

Herding-CATs is currently under active development. Features may change as the project evolves.

Due to slight variations in how Organisations set up and deploy their opendata catalogues, methods may not work 100% of the time for all catalogues.

We will do our best to ensure that most methods work and a good variety of data catalogues is present.

Current Default Open Data Catalogues

Herding-CATs supports the following catalogues by default:

Default

Catalogue Name	Website	Catalogue Endpoint	Comments
London Datastore	https://data.london.gov.uk	CKAN	Works with all methods
Subak Data Catalogue	https://data.subak.org	CKAN	Works with all methods
Gov Open Data	https://www.data.gov.uk	CKAN	Works with all methods
Humanitarian Data Exchange	https://data.humdata.org	CKAN	Works with most methods
UK Power Networks	https://ukpowernetworks.opendatasoft.com	Open Datasoft	Works with all methods
Infrabel	https://opendata.infrabel.be	Open Datasoft	Works with all methods
Paris	https://opendata.paris.fr	Open Datasoft	Works with all methods
Toulouse	https://data.toulouse-metropole.fr	Open Datasoft	Works with all methods

TBC

Catalogue Name	Website	Catalogue API Endpoint Definition	Comments
Bristol Open Data	https://opendata.bristol.gov.uk	TBC	Need to figure out how to call the catalogue backend
Icebreaker One	https://ib1.org	CKAN	Needs further investigation as authentication with an API key may be required
Data Mill North	https://datamillnorth.org	CKAN	Seems to have a slightly different implementation - may not work with all methods
Canada Open Data	https://open.canada.ca	CKAN	Needs further investigation due to different implementation