/public-open-data-portals

A catalogue of public national and supranational open data portals.

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A catalogue of public national and supranational open data portals.

Aims and motivation

Broadly, to keep a record of the worldwide deployment of national open-data portals. To see how these portals compare in their implementation and capabilities. To map the adoption of free (libre) technological solutions. To identify innovation in the public sector. To attempt to transfer innovation across national boundaries. To determine the degree of involvement of and the influence corporate interests have had on open-data portals on a national and global scale.

Fields

Generally: enumerations should be interleaved with semicolons; and the leftmost colon wtihin a cell or an enumeration is assumed to be the separator of a key–value pair.

portals.csv

A general overview of each portal.

country_code

The ISO 3166-1:2 country code.

country_name

The name of the country or territory in English.

url

The portal's canonical URL.

software_platform

The name of the (user-facing) software package the portal is based on, if any.

is_open_source

Whether the source code has been made publicly available under a free-software license and in full.

source_code_url

Where to find the source code if it is made available, regardless of whether it's open source.

has_metadata_api

Whether the portal provides a dataset metadata API.

metadata_api_endpoint

The metedata API endpoint, provided it has_metadata_api.

has_object_api

Whether the portal provides an API with direct access to the data. This corresponds to the CKAN datastore API, which is not enabled by default.

object_api_endpoint

The object API endpoint, provided it has_object_api.

has_bulk_download

Whether the portal provides a bulk download option for datasets.

total_datasets

The total number of datasets as of last_updated.

presiding_body

The name of the government agency that oversees the operation of the portal, both in English and in the native language(s). This can be the competent authority as prescribed by law (e.g. a ministry) or a division of the competent authority delegated with the operation of the portal, if granularity is desired.

outsourced_development

Whether the government employed a private entity to develop the portal. The contractor will often also be responsible for maintenance.

received_consulting

Whether the government hired a private consultant to assist with the portal, broadly construed.

date_launched

The date when the portal was opened to the public.

resources

Reading material.

notes

Anything you might like to make a note of.

last_updated

Date when the row was last updated.

licenses.csv

Dataset breakdown by country and license. The license counts can be mined from CKAN APIs.

country_code

The ISO 3166-1:2 country code.

last_updated

Date when the row was last updated.

License

CC0 1.0.

See also

API docs

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