Discover open data best practices in Ireland, Spain and France
Publication Date/Time
2019-05-15T09:00:00+00:00
Country
France, Ireland, Spain
A sneak peak into the Open Data Maturity 2018 Reports Top Three
Performers
The Analytical Report mentioned in this article has now been
published.
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INTRODUCING THE OPEN DATA MATURITY 2018 REPORT'S TOP THREE PERFORMERS

Next week, the European Data Portal
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/] (EDP) will publish a new
analytical report on Open Data best practices in Europe's Top Three
Performers. This report offers a practical guidebook for policy makers
and portal managers towards a successful open data transformation at
national level.

There has been a steady increase of interest in open data topics and
the learnings from European best practices by national decision-makers
across Europe. The Open Data Maturity 2019 Report's Top Three
Performers analyses the success factors that have led to visible
progress in some EU Member states, captures the developments in
Europe's most mature open data countries, and provides a useful
checklist for other European countries to follow moving forward. With
overall scores of 88%, 87% and 83% on open data maturity respectively,
Ireland, Spain and France were the top-ranking countries in the 2018
pan-European Open Data Maturity Assessment [/en/dashboard#2018].

The report aligned its analysis to the four assessment dimensions of
the 2018 Pan-European Open Data landscaping exercise: Policy, Portal,
Impact and Open Data Quality. These dimensions are elaborated on
below. In addition, the report identifies common factors that helped
push for and sustain open data development in the three Member States.
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The report's focus on these factors does not imply that only these
identified factors can help drive a sustainable open data development
at a country level. Mastering a successful open data transformation
can be enabled by assessing the applicability of these set of success
factors and adapting and transferring them to a specific national
context in line with the local specificities.

THE FOUR ASSESSMENT DIMENSIONS

_Open Data Policy_
In terms of open data policy, the analysis highlights elements such as
the strategic vision around open data. This is grounded in a
comprehensive policy framework and an inclusive open data governance
structure that has guided the successful open data development in
Ireland, Spain and France.

_Open Data Portal_
In terms of open data portal, there are several commonalities that
ensured Ireland, Spain and France achieved top positions in the 2018
Open Data Maturity assessment. These commonalities are the advanced
features that foster access to data and that enable interaction
between users, and a national open data portal that is designed as an
access gateway to data sets, tools and editorial content. These
features have also successfully contributed to ensuring that the
national portal establishes itself as a main point of reference for
open data content and data sets at national level.

_Open Data Impact_
With regards to the dimension open data impact, aspects such as a
strategic awareness around fostering, monitoring and measuring open
data re-use, and a targeted focus on developing data ecosystems in
thematical domains have contributed to the top performers' progress.
Overall, the report and the yearly assessment highlights the broad
re-use of open data stemming from the political, social, and
environmental fields. What particularly stood out in the three
countries contexts is the strategic awareness that the national level
is showing towards the monitoring of open data publication in terms of
quantity and quality. The national open data teams have set a clear
focus on fostering re-use in the public and private sector and have
defined priority areas for open data publication. The top performers
also showcase a good understanding of the need to prioritise and
foster and monitor re-use within these domains of interest.

_Open Data Quality_
Concerning the dimension open data quality, the three national portals
show a systematic approach towards ensuring discoverability, accuracy,
currency, and completeness of open data stemming from local, regional
and national sources. This is ensured by a mix of automated mechanisms
(e.g. validators, check-lists) as well as documentation (such as
guidelines) linked via the portal - that support the data holders
throughout their data publication process.

OPEN DATA MATURITY

With its analysis and easy-to-use action framework, the report will
provide a set of recommendations for national decision makers to guide
their next open data steps. The report's findings are summarised in an
easy-to-use framework to enable open data success: DEFINE - MONITOR -
BENCHMARK.
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Interested in finding out more about the 2018 pan-European Open Data
maturity assessment and the yearly progress across Europe? Visit the
European Data Portal [/en/dashboard]'s Open Data Maturity Dashboard
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