Recap of data.europa.eu in data
This news piece is the final article in the data.europa.eu recap and
outlook series and will focus on the available open datasets on the
portal and metadata quality.

Data.europa.eu aims to be the single point of access for all open
(meta)data across Europe. To this end, there was a steady increase of
open datasets available on data.europa.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/catalogue-statistics/evolution/?locale=en]
throughout 2022. Between 1 January 2022 to 1 January 2023, the total
number of open datasets increased from 1 306 809 to 1 503 404, with
most of these datasets coming from the thematic areas
[https://data.europa.eu/catalogue-statistics/category?locale=en]: 

 	* “Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food” with 379 333
datasets from 239 718;
 	* “Environment” with 273 604 datasets from 260 897; and 
 	* “Justice, legal system and public safety” with 188 893
datasets from 183 420. 

The top three countries publishing open (meta)datasets
[https://data.europa.eu/catalogue-statistics/countries?locale=en] at
the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023 are: Germany (551 815); Czech
Republic (336 042); and France (158 741). 

There has also been a slight increase in the overall quality of open
(meta)data [https://data.europa.eu/mqa/?locale=en] across Europe,
resulting in a ‘Sufficient’ overall rating. The highest scoring
indicator for metadata quality on data.europa.eu is ‘Findability’
– an indicator focusing on helping people and machines find datasets
– with an overall score of 69%. However, there are other indicators
where more work is needed to improve metadata quality. This includes
‘Contextuality’, an indicator measuring information that provides
more context to the user (3% score), and ‘Interoperability’, an
indicator that gauges the ability of computer systems or software to
exchange and make use of a dataset (26% score). 

Going forward in 2023, data.europa.eu will continue to harvest open
(meta)data from across Europe and support countries in improving the
quality of their data. This will be done through, for example, lessons
on the data.europa academy [https://data.europa.eu/en/academy],
tailored webinars to data providers, and research published in studies
such as the Open Data Maturity 2022 report
[https://data.europa.eu/en/publications/open-data-maturity/2022]. 

For those new to open data, explore the data.europa.eu academy to
learn more about different technical open data topics, such as
real-time data, geospatial data trends, open data portal
sustainability, and metadata quality. Moreover, you can explore over 1
million datasets
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&minScoring=0] on
different themes from across Europe. Aware of any upcoming events or
open data trends that we should cover in 2023? Share your thoughts and
experiences with us via Twitter [https://twitter.com/EU_opendata],
Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/data.europa.eu] or LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/publications-office-of-the-european-union].


Publication Date/Time
2023-01-06T09:00:12+00:00
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