Navarra reinforces its open data strategy with a new platform

Fecha de la noticia: 12-01-2022

Capture of the Navarra open data portal

Last December, the Government of Navarra presented its new open data portal datosabiertos.navarra.es. It is a platform created with the aim of integrating the catalogs of the different institutions, agencies or entities in the region.

A data portal for the entire territory of Navarre

Until now, the Government of Navarre offered datasets to citizens through a specific section within the Open Government portal. The new portal, on the other hand, is presented as a platform that extends its scope to other institutions and organizations. The data published is no longer limited to those generated by the regional administration, but functions as a complete portal for the entire territory of the Autonomous Community of Navarre.

The portal makes it possible to manage and publish datasets and their metadata. Through a federator, organizations can automatically integrate their data portals into the platform.

The new platform has tools for cataloging and searching data. It also has an API aimed at reusers and developers to facilitate data search, access and consumption.

This platform has also been integrated with datos.gob.es, so that the information published can be accessed from the National Open Data Catalog. This action not only boosts the visibility of Navarre's datasets at national level, but also at European level, since datos.gob.es is automatically federated with the European Data Portal.

Top datasets

The platform currently has more than 1,200 datasets, classified into 22 thematic categories.

22 data categories included in the Navara open data portal: Science and Technology (14 datasets), Commerce (25 datasets), Culture and Leisure (45 datasets), Demographics (77 datasets), Sports (48 datasets), Economy (38 datasets), Education (66 datasets), Employment (40 datasets), Energy (12 datasets), Finance (12 datasets), Industry (31 datasets), Legislation and Justice (30 datasets), Environment (448 datasets), Rural and Fisheries (113 datasets), Health (37 datasets), Public Sector (101 datasets), Security (5 datasets), Society and Welfare (86 datasets), Transport (122 datasets), Tourism (32 datasets), Urban Planning and Infrastructure (167 datasets), and Housing (35 datasets).

Among the most downloaded data are:

These and other data serve as a source of new solutions and services that allow to increase the economic and social development of the citizenship. Those that use the information related to the evolution of the pandemic, carried out both by individuals and by public bodies, stand out. In this regard, the Open Government and Citizen Services has created a space with daily updated data on the current situation and its evolution. A web application is also available to visualize the evolution of the budget expenditure executed by the Government of Navarra.

The promotion of open data, an action foreseen in the 1st Open Government Plan of Navarre

The updating of the portal is within the framework of the actions of the I Open Government Plan 2021-2023. Specifically, the commitment "1.5. Strategy of empowerment, interoperability and federation between open data platforms", where the following actions are included:

  • The evolution of the catalog towards interoperability and consolidation of information between open data platforms.
  • The progressive incorporation to Open Data Navarra of the data generated by NASTAT - Statistical Institute of Navarra-.
  • The improvement of the design of the Open Data Navarra website, advancing in the accessibility of the tool.
  • The promotion of collaboration with the University for the use of open data in university teaching and research. In this sense, the new platform was presented at a conference at the University of Navarra with the aim of bringing the possibilities of open data to students.

Next steps

The main short-term objective of the Government of Navarra is to continue working on the quality of the data published, trying to improve the structure of the data in order to offer it in as many open formats as possible.

Another of its objectives is to integrate tools to facilitate graphic visualization, as well as to continue working with the organizations that currently publish data in the catalog and gradually incorporate the rest in order to develop an internal federation system that will allow all of them to publish information. This system is to be extended to offer this integration also to Local Entities and Associations of Municipalities.

With respect to the promotion of reuse, work will continue to be carried out mainly in the university environment. For 2022 there is the intention to hold two other conferences also aimed at students, at the UNED, focused on the reuse of data for the generation of applications and value-added services, and at the University of Navarra, in the field of reuse of open data in the journalistic industry and its relationship with Transparency and Open Government. Likewise, it is planned for the next academic year to collaborate with universities to carry out some kind of contest.

With these actions, the Government of Navarra seeks to reinforce the commitment to open data and extend the culture of open data to society, offering a tool that makes it possible to easily access the data, as well as downloading them in different open formats. The aim is to make it easier for anyone to analyze and reuse the data, so that they can create tools and services that can meet their needs or those of third parties, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

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