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Best Practices/Support Federation of Open Data Portals
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Outline
The goal of the best practice is to enable creation of a common catalogue ( global index) of reusable public information that can be accessed by companies or any user to locate reusable data without the need to know and find the website of the public entity that maintains the data.
Management summary
Challenge
More and more public entities are creating their own open data spaces in the web. These different spaces are unconnected. To avoid that reuse agents have to look for the data all over the web, we needed a single point where all public sector information can be permanently and automatically referenced e.g. the Spanish National Catalogue of Reusable Public Information: datos.gob.es
Solution
The solution foresees using catalogue federation tool for aggregation of the metadata of the data sets published in the own catalogues on the websites of the data providers, and automatic publication also at the National Catalogue in a consistent way.
Best Practice identification
Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice
Because of the ability to interconnect open data initiatives at a single access point (e.g. datos.gob.es) that can be accessed by the re-user or any member of the public via a search tool. The search tool allows to locate reusable information without needing to know and find the website of the public entity holding the data of interest to them, strongly contributes to the efficiency of the Open data processes.
Links to the PSI Directive
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
- To get the most out of scarce public resources that are available in our country
- To facilitate reuse. Datasets are displayed in a clear and structured fashion on a user-friendly interface for reuse.
- To get a set of guidelines to use standard metadata structure in data sets following W3C recomnedations that ensure the consistent growth of the Open Data Catalogue.
- To facilitate the task of public employees avoiding to publish reusable information in two different places.
What do you need for this Best Practice?
See example of implementation from Spain, Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals.
Applicability to other Member States
Contact info
- Mª Dolores Hernandez Maroto, MINHAP, soporte@datos.gob.es ; http://administracionelectronica.gob.es/general/verContacto.htm
- For editorial issues: Valentina Janev, Institute Mihajlo Pupin, valentina.janev@institutepupin.com.