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

Mon Feb 25 11:25:02 UTC 2013

There is some material here:
http://opendatahandbook.org/en/how-to-open-up-data/make-it-discoverable.html

But it could definitely be expanded!

Rufus

On 25 February 2013 10:51, 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.nl was
> 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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