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About DataPortals.org

DataPortals.org is the most comprehensive list of open data portals in the world. It is curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world - including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs.

The alpha version of DataPortals.org was launched at OKCon 2011 in Berlin. We have plenty of useful improvements and features in the pipeline, which will be launched over the coming months.

If you have an idea for something you think we should add, please let us know via the form. If you're interested talking to other people interested in open government data, you can join the open-government list or follow #opendata on Twitter.

Curators

  • Antonio Acuña, data.gov.uk (UK)
    
  • Jose Manuel Alonso, Web Foundation (Spain)
    
  • Tony Bowden, mySociety (UK)
    
  • Lisa Cornish, data.gov.au (Australia)
    
  • Richard Cyganiak, DERI (Ireland)
    
  • Daniel Dietrich, Open Knowledge (Germany)
    
  • John Erickson, RPI (US)
    
  • Martín Álvarez Espinar, CTIC (Spain)
    
  • Augusto Herrmann, Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (Brazil)
    
  • Jeanne Holm, Data.gov (US)
    
  • Martin Kaltenböck, Open Government Data Austria (Austria)
    
  • Tariq Khokhar, World Bank (International)
    
  • Sylvain Latour, Canadian Government (Canada)
    
  • Tracey P. Lauriault, Civic Access (Canada)
    
  • Tom Lee, Sunlight Foundation (US)
    
  • Cathrine Lippert, National IT and Telecom Agency (Denmark)
    
  • Luca Martinelli, European Commission (Europe)
    
  • James McKinney, Open North (Canada)
    
  • Sverre-Andreas Lunde-Danbolt, Ministry of Government Administration and Reform (Norway)
    
  • Andrew McLaughlin, Civic Commons (US)
    
  • Thomas Roessler, W3C (International)
    
  • Paul Suijkerbuijk, ICTU (Netherlands)
    
  • Ton Zijlstra, ePSIplatform (Europe)
    

Requirements for DataCatalogs.org

Summary

Comprehensive, canonical source list of open data catalogs from around the world, curated by open data advocates and experts from around the world. Audience/users

Officials

  • E.g. UN, European Commission, National governments

Open data advocates

Researchers/research organisations/universities

  • E.g. CTIC, RPI

Data users

E.g. those federating open data from multiple sources

  • Needs to be
  • Trustworthy
  • Reliable

The main list internationally (no need to replace/start another one) High quality/accurate

User stories

  • I want to add a data catalog
  • I want to correct/add data about a data catalog (e.g. licensing information, updated URL or description)
  • I want to group data catalogs together (e.g. in national groupings)

Possible Technical Next Steps

Google Docs spreadsheet as DB

Could evolve this in future ... UI in pure JS + HTML (could go nodejs route if we want SEO / real HTML) Pure JS: http://datacatalogs/catalog/#{id}

Groups could still work if you want them …. http://datacatalogs.org/group/#{group-id}

Contributing
Google form for new catalogs Could have something for corrections … (comments for a specific catalog) Need moderators / editors to review …

To do:

Revise fields that we need DCAT compliant (yes/no) Metadata license

Extras

All existing URLs would still work (via redirect)

Bonus

All data downloadable Data as RDF (not that hard but a bit of work …)


Author:codeforuk ( http://qwikfix.co.uk/ )