European Data Portal

On November 16, 2015 the beta version of the European Data Portal was launched.[1] The European Data Portal is an initiative of the European Commission, and is part of the Digital Single Market.[2]

Purpose

The European Data Portal was created to gather Public Sector Information of the 28 European Member States and the four EFTA countries.[3] These countries are also referred to as the EU28+.

Public Sector Information that can be freely re-use for any purpose is commonly referred to as Open Data. The EU28+ countries publish public data on national data portals and geospatial portals. In order to provide one single access point to all of this data, the European Data Portal was created. On the portal, only metadata (data about the data) is shown. This metadata is directly harvested from the existing portals through the use of APIs.

The data is gathered in order to promote the re-use of the public data. By re-using this data, several benefits can be achieved.[4] These benefits are further detailed in the report Creating Value through Open Data.

Content

The European Data Portal provides access to the data sets in different ways, via:[5]

However, the European Data Portal is not just a repository for public data. The Portal offers different content:[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Home page - European Data Portal". europeandataportal.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  2. ↑ "Looking for Open Data from a different country? Try the European Data portal | Digital Agenda for Europe". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  3. ↑ "EC brings pan-European open data together on European Data Portal | Joinup". joinup.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  4. ↑ "EU fosters open data economy with pan-European portal | ODINE partner zone | The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  5. ↑ "Data Tools - European Data Portal". europeandataportal.eu. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  6. ↑ "EU launches European Data Portal". ukauthority.com. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
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