I am working on CKAN and will like to know the appropriate file formats that can be previewed on CKAN. I could not find any information on this topic online, so I decided to start this topic and hope to garner more responses on this which will be useful to CKAN developers in future. Here's a list of file formats that I have gathered after experimenting with my own CKAN and looking through other CKAN instances such as those from UK and Australia.
Can be previewed:
- CSV (Comma separated values)
- XLS (Microsoft Excel Binary File Format)
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
- JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
- PDF (Portable Document Format)
- RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
- TXT (Plain Text)
- WMS (Web Map Service)
- XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
Cannot be previewed:
- DOC (Microsoft Word)
- RDF (Resource Description Framework)
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
- KML (Keyhole Markup Language)
- SHP (Shapefile)
- WFS (Web Feature Service)
- XLSX (Microsoft Excel Open XML Document)
- ZIP (archive)
Help add on to my list and correct me if any of the above is wrong, then I will update the list above. Thanks! ;)