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Version: 1.6.3

Piveau

Introduction​

Piveau is an open source metadata catalogue solution that is highly scalable and covers the essential lifecycle of your metadata: harvesting, storage, and quality assurance.

Piveau was designed and developed around Semantic Web technologies, the W3C standard DCAT, and the European standard for Open Data DCAT-AP. It closes the gap between formal metadata specifications and their application in production, putting a strong emphasis on Open Data as a leading solution for public administrations and non-profit organizations to publish interoperable and flexible metadata catalogues.

Key Features​

  • Multi-Protocol Support: OAI-PMH, RDF, CKAN, uData, OwnCloud, JSON, SPARQL, Socrata, Drupal
  • Scalability: Handles hundreds of thousands of datasets per source
  • Dynamic Transformation: Programmable data transformation with JavaScript or XSLT
  • Scheduled Harvesting: Regular execution of harvesting runs
  • Export Capabilities: DCAT(-AP) and derived standards included

User Roles​

Assign users the following Keycloak roles to control their access to Piveau:

  • piveauHubUiAccess — allows login to Piveau Hub UI via the browser flow. Note that the operator role or catalog-specific groups are additionally required to create or edit resources.
  • operator — grants read and write access to all data catalogs and datasets. For access limited to specific catalogs, use the corresponding catalog groups instead (see Piveau user management).

Additional Resources​

For comprehensive information about the Piveau platform and its architecture, please refer to the following resources:

Platform Overview​

Integration with CIVITAS/CORE​

Working with Catalogues and Datasets​

Authentication​

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