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GovData –
the first nine months of the German
cross-level Open Data Portal
2nd
Open Data Dialog, Berlin, November 2013
Jan-Ole Beyer
Division O1 “Administrative Organisation,
Modernization Programmes“
Federal Ministry of the Interior

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Agenda
 Where we started – a short review…
 Measures and milestones
towards our way to GovData
 GovData – the first nine months
 Next steps
 Lessons learned
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Where we started…
…plus some platforms on municipal level……plus some platforms on municipal level…
…plus some platforms for specific data……plus some platforms for specific data…
…plus some platforms on the federal level……plus some platforms on the federal level…
Lower
Saxony
North Rhine-
Westphalia
Bremen
Hamburg
Berlin
Rhineland-
Palatinate
Baden-
Wuerttemberg
Bavaria
That patchwork
doesn‘t look very
user-friendly…
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Where we started…
 August 2010:
Government programme “Transparent
and Network-based administration”
 October 2011:
Implementation of the
National E-Government Strategy
 December 2011:
European Open-Data-Strategy
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Measures and milestones
 2011/12: Contest “Apps for Germany”
 Aug. 2012: Report “Open Government Data Germany”
on legal, technical and organizational issues
 Sept. 2012: 1st
draft of an Open Data metadata structure
 Oct. 2012: publication of the data licence Germany
 Feb. 2013: Launch of GovData(beta)
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For the data geeks:
some statistical data…
 >50,000 visits / 5.7 mio. page
impressions in the first month
 since then: ~10,000 visits / ~1.4 mio.
page impressions per month
 from 1,100 datasets in February
to 4,400 datasets in November
 >80% of the datasets are openly licensed;
100% are machine-readable
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Enhancements, advancements
and other project steps
 ongoing:
 improvement of the metadata structure
 mappings of the metadata structure with other schemes
 acquisition of new data providers
 May 2013:
 GovData-Blog: govdata.de/neues
 Facebook-Page: facebook.com/govdatade
 Oct. 2013:
 publication of GovData on GitHub as Open Source
 start of a first evaluation of GovData
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Upcoming: The next steps…
 (Formal) standardization of the
metadata structure
 Enhancement of the data licence Germany
 Preliminaries for the end of the beta-phase and
the start of the “production use”
 Development of an organisational and financing
model, together with the federal states
 Stimulation of data re-use, data providing,
data competence,…
 …
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Lessons learned – up to now…
 Metadata quality is vital, but
hard to achieve…
 Technical and legal problems are
complex, but mostly solvable.
 The (cultural) change towards
more openness is much more
complicated.
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Lessons learned – up to now…
 A culture of error tolerance is
essential for that – within the
administration, but also within
society!
 We need more best practices
and examples for the benefits of
open data!
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QUESTIONS?!
Jan-Ole Beyer
Federal Ministry of the Interior
Division O1 “Administrative Organisation,
Modernization Programmes“
eMail:
janole.beyer@bmi.bund.de
phone.:
+49 (0)30 - 18-681-2807
address:
Alt-Moabit 101D, D-10559 Berlin
Jan-Ole Beyer
Federal Ministry of the Interior
Division O1 “Administrative Organisation,
Modernization Programmes“
eMail:
janole.beyer@bmi.bund.de
phone.:
+49 (0)30 - 18-681-2807
address:
Alt-Moabit 101D, D-10559 Berlin