Country Insights on the European Data Portal
Publication Date/Time
2020-05-27T07:00:00+00:00
Country
Europe
Discover how countries across Europe use open data in the EDP’s new
Country Insights page
EUROPEAN DATA PORTAL V3.0

In March 2020, the European Data Portal (EDP) launched version 3.0
[/en/news/european-data-portal-releases-new-version-website] of the
website. Several new features were introduced in this version update,
including:

 	* A new user interface for easier navigation;
 	* A new enhanced EDP home page
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en] that better balances the
editorial content and dataset focus / content;
 	* Ongoing harvesting of portal sources [/data/datasets?locale=en],
including non-geo and geo portals, and maintaining existing
harvesters; and
 	* A Country Insights page [/en/impact-studies/country-insights] that
enables users to filter content per country in Europe and explore
specific insights of how open data is used in that country.

COUNTRY INSIGHTS

The aim of the new Country Insights page is to share public
administration success stories on open data and, as stated, to enable
users to better filter their search for country-specific content.
Thus, on this page users can discover insights on country developments
and best practices on open data through blog posts, new use cases that
exemplify how organisations use open data, news pieces, feature
highlights and analytical reports. The blog posts are a new feature.
Currently, there are two posts that are available on the Country
Insights page, one from the Netherlands and one from the United
Kingdom.  

_The Netherlands_

On the Netherlands Country Insights page
[/en/impact-studies/country-insights/netherlands], a blog post titled
“Insights from data.overheid.nl
[/impact-studies/country-insights/netherlands/insights-dataoverheidnl]”
is focused on the open governmental data in the Netherlands . The
article was written by Jelle Verburg, the product owner of the Dutch
National Open Data Portal (data.overheid.nl
[https://data.overheid.nl/]). In this post, Mr. Verburg discusses how
he and his team work with open government data in the Netherlands and
how they support open data re-users in finding requested data for
their work. Moreover, he discusses how the data.overheid.nl team are
creating more insights into the impact of open data in local
communities across the Netherlands.

Interested in learning more about what the data.overheid.nl team is
doing around open data? Join the EDP’s Data Spaces Talks
[https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/67371995705] on WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE at 13:00
CEST to hear Mr. Verburg elaborate more on open government data and
open data best practices in the Netherlands.

_United Kingdom_

On the United Kingdom’s Country Insights page
[/en/impact-studies/country-insights/united-kingdom], a blog post on
the Bus Open Data Service
[/impact-studies/country-insights/united-kingdom/bus-open-data-service]
is focused on the open transportation data in the United Kingdom. The
article was contributed to the EDP by Ito World
[https://www.itoworld.com/], the supplier to the Department of
Transport
[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport]
in the United Kingdom who is responsible for the delivery of Bus Open
Data Service
[https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bus-open-data-service]
(BODS). The service is a crucial enabler of the UK government’s
manifesto commitment to open up data on local bus services across
England from 2020 onward. Furthermore, the article provides two main
use cases for the BODS:

 	* DATA PUBLISHERS – Bus operators that can use the Publish Bus
Data Service to create timetable data, quality assurance and then
publish it open for consumption by application developers.
 	* DATA CONSUMERS: The Transport for London (TfL) publishes open
datasets in the transit space. Since they began opening their data,
TfL has seen 17,000 developers register to use these datasets, which
in turn support 600 travel applications across the UK that generates
economic benefits and a savings of approximately £130m a year.

CALL FOR COUNTRY INSIGHTS CONTRIBUTION

Are you a civil servant working with open data? Do you use open
government data for your work? Share your expertise, knowledge and
insights with us by writing a blog post for your country! You can
contact us via mail [/en/feedback/form?type=4]
(info@europeandataportal.eu) or through our social media channels
Twitter [https://twitter.com/EU_DataPortal], Facebook
[http://www.facebook.com/EuropeanDataPortal] or LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/10478056/].

 

For more information or examples on open data, explore the European
Data Portal’s (EDP) news archive [/en/news-events/news]. Aware of
open data examples or stories?  Share them with us via mail
[/en/feedback/form?type=4], and follow up on Twitter
[https://twitter.com/EU_DataPortal], Facebook
[http://www.facebook.com/EuropeanDataPortal] or LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/10478056/] to stay up to date!
