Category 1: Public Sector Information (PSI) Data Catalogues (by governments) (Direct Access to Data)
Updated: 17 August 2010
What is included in this listing?
- The listing includes portals from all levels of governments.
- It is an international listing including catalogue portals from within Europe and elsewhere.
The inclusion criteria are that the catalogue – portal to open government data:
- Is an undertaking by the public sector (government) and not a civil society initiative
- Provides access to a broad and reasonably substantial set of government data and not just limited to data from one or two sectors such as only geographic data
- Data is accessible in electronic ‘raw’ data formats making it possible to work with or re-use the data such XLS, XML, CSV or others (not just textual information)
How is the listing organised?
- The listing is organised by the first category of the European Union (EU) followed by main headings of countries within the EU in alphabetical order by country name. Regional, state and city entries are listed under countries, again in alphabetical order by the name.
- Following the European Union category, the main headings are by non EU countries with entries by country in alphabetical order by the name of the jurisdiction.