Which domain contains most data sets on the portal?
Publication Date/Time
2016-08-10T09:15:00+00:00
The justice, legal system and public safety domain contains most data
In total there are currently 582,937 data sets on the European Data
Portal. To find your way in this tremendous amount, there are 13
different data domains in which the data sets are divided. In order to
make this mapping, the metadata - information about the data -
contains information about data domains. Approximately 70% of the data
sets are mapped to the data domains of the DCAT-Application Profile,
used as a basis for clustering on the EDP. In the table below the
number of data sets per domain, can be found.
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The Justice, legal system and public safety domain contains the most
data sets. There is a large difference between the domains with the
most data sets and the domains with the least data sets, namely the
energy and international issues domain. An explanation might be that
public administrations are not well aware of Open Data that lies
within these categories. Examples of data sets in the energy domain
are: tonnage of recycled material and disposal of urban waste water.
Awarded Nobel prizes and figures around international trade are
examples of data sets within the international issues domain. This
illustrates once again that Open Data can be found in numerous places!
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