How to develop a plan of measures to promote openness and reuse of open data

Public sector bodies must make their data available for re-use, making it accessible in the form of open data, as referred to in Spain's legislative framework. The first step for this is that each entity, at local, regional and state level, as well as bodies, entities and trading companies belonging to the institutional public sector, establishes a unit responsible for ensuring that their information is made available. This unit will be in charge of promoting that the information is updated and provided in the appropriate open formats. It should also coordinate information re-use activities, as well as promotion, awareness raising and training on open data, among other functions.

Once it has been determined who is responsible for ensuring open data, it is time to put in place a plan of measures to promote openness and reuse of open data, so that all the actions to be developed are carried out in an orderly, coordinated manner and subject to a viable agenda for openness.

In order to help the responsible units in this task, datos.gob.es has prepared a template for the formulation of the Plan. The aim is to provide guidance on the different elements that such a plan should contain in order to draw up a feasible roadmap for data openness, as well as to enable its monitoring and evaluation.

The following infographic lists the categories included in the template, together with a brief definition (Click on the image to access the infographic).

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When drawing up the plan, it is important that each of these categories is completed in as much detail as possible. You can download the template document below, which details all of these elements.

A document has also been prepared with guidelines on important issues for the development of the open data initiative that should be taken into account when defining the plan of measures to promote openness and reuse of open data. This includes guidance on:

• Data governance
• The regulatory framework for open data
• The most common conditions for re-use
• High value data
• Metadata to consider
• Measurement indicators for the evaluation and monitoring of an open data initiative.

Click on the button below each document to download it.