The AOC's open data platform is consolidated with 1.181 user local entities, 38 common data sets and 200 resources
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From the AOC, together with the Transparent Governments Network, we resolutely promote the opening of local world data as a value to promote transparència and its reuse, to innovate in the public, social and business fields.
For this reason, since January 2015, all local bodies in Catalonia havea free open data platform, which currently includes 38 data sets generated without having to do any work. These sets have been generated and updated periodically from supra-municipal data sources (Barcelona Provincial Council, Generalitat de Catalunya, General State Administration and others) and allow you to consult, download and analyze the main areas of municipal management: budget, staff, aid, debt, payment to suppliers, etc.
To commemorate March 6 as International Open Data Day, we want to make a collection of international experienceseressants which already has more than twenty Catalan town councils publishing their own data, and more than 200 published resources.
Open data portal: experiences in the territory
Many of the councils that have been encouraged to promote the service are large. In this group of town halls we find very good experiences like those of Holy Coloma of Gramenet, Granollers, Rubí o El Prat de Llobregat with portals that present a large volume of published data.
Main page of the open data portal offered by the AOC
In these town halls we can find information on the empty premises of the city (Granollers), managements of the office of citizen attention by subject and day (Santa Coloma de Gramenet), or companies of the municipality or the census of vehicles (El Prat de Llobregat).
However, among the large city councils and as a paradigmatic example of the use of the open data portal that we offer from the AOC, it is necessary to highlight the work that is being done from the City Council of Tarragona.
In Tarragona they currently have an open data portal with 68 different data sets (encompassing more than 100 available resources), but the most remarkable thing is that beyond the typical and standard value table format, they are moving forward to show the data with resources on different formats including tables, maps, graphs or associated reports.
To do this, they use different technologies such as Instamaps, PowerBI, Tableau or Flourish, with the aim of accompanying the data with more understandable resources, both for the public and for potential re-users.
Examples of resources in different data sets in the Tarragona open data portal
If we go into medium-sized municipalities we find good examples of data publication in Sitges, providing a lot of value from mobile phone data, and Sant Quirze del Vallès, where they publish different data sets on the standard models we propose from the AOC, currently 18, although we will soon offer new ones to reach 25. You can access the models of standardized data sets.
In this group of medium-sized town halls we especially highlight the experiences of Castellar del vallès i Sant Just Desvern, because we promote open data to automate the information of the portal itself transparència.
Data set from the Castellar del Vallès open data portal, which automatically feeds an item from the portal transparència
In terms of smaller municipalities in the range of 10.000 inhabitants stands out the city of Matadepera, which has 6 published datasets of its own, and is doing very interesting workeressant publishing the inventory of movable or immovable property, or the work licenses requested with historical data since 2017.
Table and map with the building permits requested in Matadepera
And the smaller town halls?
In Catalonia, nearly 85% of town halls have fewer than 5.000 inhabitants, of which more than 600 have fewer than 2.000 inhabitants. It is clear that these town halls are the ones that have the most difficulties in promoting open data projects, although it is worth noting that international experiences are already beginning to emerge.eressaints.
It is necessary to emphasize the experiences of city councils like The Dams (La Garrotxa) or Ascó (Ribera d'Ebre), both pioneers in the promotion of open data in municipalities with less than 2.000 inhabitants.
In Les Preses they publish datasets both interessaints such as municipal facilities, municipal entities or defibrillators in the territory. Ascó publishes the remuneration of elected officials or municipal entities.
As a strategic project to enhance open data in small municipalities, from the AOC we are closely following the experiences of the municipalities of Garcia (525 inhabitants) and Miravet (706 inhabitants) which, with the collaboration of the Ribera d'Ebre Regional Council, are working to identify and extract data from their back-office, publish it in open data and facilitate automatic publication on the portal. transparènciaThis is a very interesting project.eressant that with the help of the Ribera d'Ebre Regional Council can serve as a model to promote open data in other municipalities. We will follow it and share the details with you.
Conclusion
We can see that there are very interesting experiences.eressaints in data publication, improvements in the dissemination of information to citizens or the promotion of the automation of active advertising of transparència. They are very interesting experiences.eressaints that we will follow and share.
If you are interestederesTo learn about other experiences and advance in open data, we leave you the following as a reference: proposed itineraries to move forward.
From the AOC we would like to thank the effort and enthusiasm of all the participants in the Open Data working group, with whom we have been collaborating continuously in recent years. The group is made up of technical staff from the town councils of Tarragona, El Prat de Llobregat, Rubí, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Castellar del Vallès, Sant Just Desvern and Sant Quirze del Vallès.
In the working group we work basically to model new standard sets but also to provide different improvements to the service. As an example, we are currently working on an open data dashboard that will make it easy to know very quickly and easily the use of the data (queries, downloads, etc.) of the published sets. In closeeres In a few weeks we will validate and publish it openly.
