[open-government] Guide how to run your gov dataportal

Mon Feb 25 11:22:31 UTC 2013

Hi Joris,

What a good job! Did you put the data into the Census?
Also, I'm cc'ing Beatrice who is collecting stories from ODD for a blog
post.

-Christian

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This weekend during the Open Data Day we worked in Amsterdam on the Open
> Data Census. We looked for datasets both on a national and a city level.
> One conclusion was that most of it is there, and it is open (besides
> government spending which is not available at all...). However, it was very
> hard to find the data. The Dutch national data portal data.overheid.nlwas not a very big help to us.
>
> The main issue here seemed to be the randomness of the datasets that are
> uploaded by civil servants. For example the budgeting of the centre
> district of Amsterdam can be found (about 2010..) but not the other
> districts. The data is old and links are sometimes dead. Tagging is not
> done well which also makes finding data very hard. For example postal codes
> in the Netherlands are part of a larger dataset called BAG (basisregistraties
> in het geo-domein). This dataset is only to be found when you search for
> BAG, and not when querying 'postcodes'.
>
> An other thing is that different groups use their own sites to publish
> data, and not make use of the national one. This means that you have to
> search about 10 different data portals to find out if the data is there,
> and can still not be 100% sure.
>
> I was therefore wondering if there exists something like a 'basic guide
> how to use a dataportal'. If there is not, I think a blogpost about this
> with tips would do very well on the OKF main blog. What do people think?
> worth doing?
>
> Thanks, and all the best,
>
> Joris
>
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