GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT OPEN DATA
What is public sector information reuse?
The reuse of public sector information consists of the use by natural or legal persons of information generated by public sector organizations, for commercial or non-commercial purposes. The reuse of public information involves activities such as copying, dissemination, modification, adaptation, extraction, rearrangement and combination of information.
What are open data?
Open data is all data that is freely available so that anyone can use, reuse and redistribute it with the only limitation, where applicable, of the need to attribute it to its source or acknowledge its authorship. Open data must be freely available to everyone without restrictions by copyright, patents or other control mechanisms.
Why reuse public data?
The reuse of public sector information facilitates the development of new products, services and solutions of high socioeconomic value. Likewise, the reuse of public data allows the knowledge and direct benefits derived from the activity of public administrations to be returned to society under conditions of transparency. In this way, reuse contributes to improving the reliability and security of the data managed by public administrations in addition to contributing to a closer and more efficient design of public services.
Why the Salamanca Open Data web portal?
The objective of the construction of the Salamanca City Council's Open Data web portal is to build a Portal in which access and reuse of the information generated in this project is published and facilitated. This portal publishes and makes existing information available to everyone using open standard formats, facilitating its access and download and allowing its reuse by individuals, companies and organizations.
What sections does it offer?
The portal constitutes a single access point and meeting point between the different agents that reuse information. In the open data portal, in addition to the published data, there are sections that will allow you to learn about the latest developments implemented in the portal, encourage participation of citizens and automate access to different data sets.
How to find information?
The portal allows you to find the desired information through different ways. The portal is organized into thematic sections according to the thematic categories defined in the Technical Interoperability Standard. Likewise, it is possible to access the data sets generated by each Island Administration. Each of the sections of the portal incorporates its own free text search engine, filters and options to order the results obtained by different criteria. Additionally, in the data catalog section, an option is always available to search for the desired information about the data catalog.
How do I access the portal's data catalog?
Access to the portal's complete data catalog is in the "Data Catalog" menu in the main menu bar.
What to do in case of incidents or doubts?
The "Participate" section has been created with the intention of collecting citizens' doubts and suggestions. If you have any incident, doubt or suggestion, you can send them through the contact form that you can find in the "Participate" section. These contributions, open to the participation of all users, are essential to improve the service and offer resources of increasingly higher quality and usefulness.
DATA CATALOG
What resources does the Catalog offer?
Currently, the open data portal provides access through the Public Information Catalog to various municipal data sets. The Data Catalog of the portal contains information from various administrations participating in the project and from different categories: tourism, culture, commerce, etc., in accordance with the categorization defined in the Interoperability Technical Standard.
What is a data set?
A data set is, as its name indicates, a series of data linked together and grouped within the same information system for potential reuse. Data sets are also called "datasets."
How to register or modify a data set?
The management and administration of the data catalog and its data sets is carried out by the Salamanca City Council. To propose a modification of a data set or the creation of a new data set, it is necessary to access the "Participate" section and send the proposal. The proposals received will be analyzed for their possible incorporation into the data catalog in order to improve and expand it.
In what formats is the data published?
The publication of data is always carried out in a wide variety of formats if the nature of the information allows it. The objective is to expand the possibilities of data reuse. Not all data sets are published in the same formats. To consult the formats in which a specific data set is published, it is necessary to access said data set in the portal.