Guides

The data economy in the European Union exceeded € 375,000 M in 2018, with a growth close to 12% compared to 2017, and it is expected to continue growing to € 555,000 M in 2025. Then, it will reach 4% of the GDP of the EU27. Given this situation, it is...

Why are open data important? What is their relationship with open government? How can I start an initiative of this kind? Who can I take as a reference? These are some of the questions that the Open Data Guide: Publication and reuse of Open Data as an...

In 2017, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) published the guide "Open data: strategic guide for its implementation and minimum datasets to be published", which included a series of recommendations and guidelines for public data...

The DCAT-AP application profile aims to describe, using metadata, the catalogs and datasets of European open data portals. For this, DCAT-AP is based on Data Catalogs Vocabulary (DCAT), published by W3C. In particular, the DCAT-AP is a specification that...

Spain is one of the most prominent countries in the opening of public sector data, according to the Open Data Maturity in Europe 2017 report - remember that our country ranks second in the ranking that measures the maturity and availability of open data...

Although, nowadays more and more data sources are available, this does not imply that they are easy to use. In fact, multiple barriers hinder their access and reuse, reducing their quality.  Iniciativa Aporta publishes the Practical Manual...

The Iniciativa Aporta publishes the Guide to publish open data quickly and easily (with CKAN); a handbook that shows how to articulate an open data project without the need of extensive knowledge or prior experience in the opening of public sector...

Iniciativa Aporta – Datos.gob.es ha actualizado y enriquecido las 56 mejores prácticas para compartir información del sector público que fueron recopiladas por la red temática Share-PSI 2.0. El repositorio de Share-PSI 2.0. concebido para servir de...

Las guías de la plataforma datos.gob.es están compuestas por una  navegación del portal web datos.gob.es y una guía de mantenimiento y actualización de los conjuntos de datos reutilizables publicados en el Catálogo de datos. Esta segunda guía esta...

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has launched a guide to promote the re-use of public sector information whereas the privacy of citizens is guaranteed. In order to provide some guidelines that help the implementation of these techniques,...