A catalogue of public national and supranational open data portals.
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.
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.
A general overview of each portal.
The ISO 3166-1:2 country code.
The name of the country or territory in English.
The portal's canonical URL.
The name of the (user-facing) software package the portal is based on, if any.
Whether the source code has been made publicly available under a free-software license and in full.
Where to find the source code if it is made available, regardless of whether it's open source.
Whether the portal provides a dataset metadata API.
The metedata API endpoint, provided it has_metadata_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.
The object API endpoint, provided it has_object_api.
Whether the portal provides a bulk download option for datasets.
The total number of datasets as of last_updated.
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.
Whether the government employed a private entity to develop the portal. The contractor will often also be responsible for maintenance.
Whether the government hired a private consultant to assist with the portal, broadly construed.
The date when the portal was opened to the public.
Reading material.
Anything you might like to make a note of.
Date when the row was last updated.
Dataset breakdown by country and license. The license counts can be mined from CKAN APIs.
The ISO 3166-1:2 country code.
Date when the row was last updated.