Monday, April 11, 2011

Repository of Open Government Data Catalogs

Repository of Open Government Data Catalogs [1]. Until now, only the Open Data initiatives led by either governments or public agencies have been published. Now, any public sector information catalog (managed by citizen movements, transparency commissions, NGOs, and other institutions) is welcomed. The only requirement is that those catalogs must contain public sector information.

The second main feature is the collaborative aspect of the catalog. Anyone may contribute submitting new catalogs using a simple form [2]. All the changes will be moderated to avoid spam or inaccuracies. After the submission an the approval, the meta-information of the initiative will be available through a SPARQL endpoint [3].

[1] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
[2] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/manage/new
[3] http://data.fundacionctic.org/sparql