Category 2: Public Sector Information Portals (by governments) (Indirect Access to Data)

Updated 28 April 2010

What is included in this listing?

• The entries are ‘Information Portals’ put online by governments.
• These ‘Information Portals’ do not provide direct access to raw government data in re-usable electronic formats. They provide a listing of what government data is available and links to the source where the data can be located.
• This listing includes only European initiated Information Portals.

Why are these ‘Information Portals’ Important?

• These information catalogues provide a single access point to locate government data and make it easier to locate the data.
• Descriptive information about the government data and sources is included which is useful for the re-user to know what is available.
• These ‘Information Portals’ have the potential to evolve and provide more direct access to raw government data in re-usable electronic file formats.

The inclusion criteria are that the ‘Information Portals:

• Is an undertaking by a government at any level
• Provides a listing of reasonably substantial government data sources and not just limited to data from one or two sectors such as only geographic data

How is this listing organised?

This listing is organised in alphabetical order by country name.