New version of the Implementation Guide for the Technical Interoperability Standard of PSI Resources

The National Interoperability Scheme establishes a set of technical standards for the interoperability of public sector information, which must be complied by public administrations in Spain. As part of this scheme, there is the Technical Standard for the Interoperability of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Resources, which includes a series of conditions on the selection, identification, description, format, use conditions and availability of public data.

In order to facilitate the implementation of this technical standard, an implementation guide is available to users, which explains in detail the guidelines for public administrations to develop their own policies for the open data re-use and resources within their areas of responsibility.

A new version of this document has been recently published, which includes new materials that complement and optimize the advice provided by this guide. Thus, two additional chapters are included to illustrate from several good practices different sections and aspects of the National Interoperability Standard:

Good practices of Share-PSI

Share-PSI is a thematic network offering advice on implementation of the European Directive on the Public Sector Information. This group comprises a great number of public bodies, academic institutions, independent entities and experts who, through different workshops, review and offer good practices in this area.

In this new version of the implementation guide, the Annex III includes twelve examples of such practices collected by the Share-PSI in relation to the national document and the European Directive 2013/37 / EU on the re-use of information, such as elements to establish an open data ecosystem, standards for geospatial data or characteristics of a dataset, among others.

Good practices of web data by W3C

In addition, a table is also shown in the fourth Annex where the best data practices documented by the W3C, applicable and related to the sections of the guide, are collected:

• The persistent use of URIs as identifiers of datasets, their associated versions and series, as well as data;
• The reuse of standardized vocabularies for metadata;
• Real-time and up-to-date access;
• The constant enrichment of information;
• The possibility of bulk download and the use of standard and machine readable formats.

This latest update of the implementation guide provides an opportunity to learn and analyze successful practices in other countries, serving as a reference for the national sector to improve both the open data policies and initiatives in Spain.