A no-frills open data portal built with node, express, mongodb and angular.
Development site is live at http://rsod.herokuapp.com

• 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.
• Built on a modern stack - MEAN - MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js - Full Stack javascript FTW
• Developed by Civic Hackers and Open Data Enthusiasts who want to give data publishers another open source option for Open Data

• Catalog Data is stored in exactly the same structure as a valid data.json file in a single MongoDB collection
• The frontend consumes a valid data.json endpoint (so it's automatically exposed for anyone who wants to consume it elsewhere)
• Just 2 environment variables are required: a MongoDB URI and an admin password
• RSOD is a single-page app
• Angular loads the entire data.json file once. All searching & filtering are done in the browser. No server side rendering.
• The admin can choose to upload data files to the server, or link to existing files elsewhere on the web.
• Layout based on CKAN catalog

• Node developers
• UI/UX Help
• Design Help

• Coming soon, this project is still in development. Please feel free to contribute!

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