OPEN DATA PORTAL
The public sector produces a wide variety of relevant information for citizens and businesses: social, economic, geographic, statistical, environmental and tourism information, among others. This information tries to be as complete and of high quality as possible, so that it is useful to the citizenry and the reusing community.
The aim is to make these datasets available to everyone; as they have been compiled by the Council itself and are not subject to any legal restrictions, they may lead to new developments.
Members of the public, businesses and institutions are free to use this data for consultation purposes or to create new services, and may derive commercial value from it if they so wish, subject at all times to the conditions for reuse set out by the City Council.
FREELY AVAILABLE DATA
Open Data is a philosophy and practice that seeks to make certain data freely available to all people, without restrictions of copyright, patents or other control mechanisms. Data must be published in raw (unprocessed) form, well structured and in known formats that facilitate their reuse.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Transparency. The reliability and origin of the data makes it an excellent means of communicating public management, facilitating accountability and external oversight, all aimed at ensuring transparency in public service management and building trust among citizens.
- Reuse of public information. Any organisation generates large amounts of information useful to other departments or organisations. Open Data is configured as a tool for publishing and reusing information, making the data resulting from public management available to all.
- Generation and stimulation of economic activity. Open data-driven economic activity has multiple facets, such as management efficiency, savings from eliminating duplicate costs, efficiency from greater process visibility and the ability to implement improvements, creation of new services, the possibility of establishing collaboration mechanisms, low-cost service generation, and the creation of data commercialisation models.
- Source of innovation. The availability of new data sources opens the door to innovation, enabling the reinforcement of business lines, creation of new services, tackling problems from different perspectives and fostering collaboration on challenges.
- Data reusers: Encouraging reuse of public information, enabling the creation of new services, fostering innovation, reducing the investment needed for application development and, in general, providing reliable information on which to develop research and business projects.
- Citizens: Highlighting the results of public management in a transparent, consistent and reliable way.
- Public administration: Reducing barriers to information reuse, eliminating duplications, improving management efficiency and integrity.
- SHP – Spatial data format considered the de facto standard for geographic information exchange between GIS systems. A vector digital storage format that stores the location of geographic elements and their associated attributes.
- GML – An XML sublanguage described as an XML Schema grammar for modelling, transporting and storing geographic information.
- WFS – Web Feature Service from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a standard service offering a communication interface for interacting with maps served by the WMS standard.
- WMS – A service defined by OGC that dynamically produces spatially referenced maps from geographic information.
- KML – Keyhole Markup Language, an XML-based markup language for representing geographic data in three dimensions.
- KMZ – A compressed KML file to save space and improve transmission speed.
- CSV – Plain text document for representing tabular data in columns separated by semicolons and rows separated by line breaks.
- RDF XML/TURTLE/N3 – Resource Description Framework, an infrastructure for describing web resources using subject-predicate-object expressions. One of the essential technologies for the semantic web.
The City Council is committed to keeping the published datasets up to date, as well as increasing the number of published datasets based on social value objectives and taking into account the cost of their opening.