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# Open Data efforts worldwide
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[Data.gov](https://data.gov) is the U.S. government's home for open data, but
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many other countries have similar efforts. This document is a very low-key
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effort to collect links to these efforts for the purposes of sharing
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information and experiences to improve the effectiveness of everyone's work in
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these areas.
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[Data.gov](https://data.gov) is the U.S. government's home for open data, but many other countries have similar efforts. This document is a low-key effort to collect links to these efforts for the purposes of sharing information and experiences to improve the effectiveness of everyone's work in these areas.
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## U.S. - Data.gov
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- [Data.gov](https://data.gov) says that it is "The Home of the U.S.
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Government's Open Data". The top-level site has general information and
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links to the data catalog and other resource sites.
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- [catalog.data.gov](https://catalog.data.gov) is the public-facing metadata
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catalog. It contains information about more than 300,000 individual datasets
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from hundreds of organizations at national, state, and local levels. It runs on
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[CKAN](https://ckan.org/).
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- [resources.data.gov](https://resources.data.gov) is an informational site
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with "policies, tools, case studies, and other resources to support data
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governance, management, exchange, and use throughout the federal
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government". Of primary importance to driving the metadata catalog is the
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[schema](https://resources.data.gov/resources/dcat-us/) for the DCAT-US 1.1
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metadata format used by many of the organizations providing metadata to
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Data.gov.
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- [Data.gov](https://data.gov) is "The Home of the U.S. Government's Open Data". The top-level site has general information and links to the data catalog and other resource sites.
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- [catalog.data.gov](https://catalog.data.gov) is the public-facing metadata catalog. It contains information about more than 515,000 individual datasets from hundreds of organizations at national, state, and local levels.
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- [resources.data.gov](https://resources.data.gov) is an informational site with "policies, tools, case studies, and other resources to support data governance, management, exchange, and use throughout the federal government". Of primary importance to driving the metadata catalog is the [schema](https://resources.data.gov/resources/dcat-us/) for the DCAT-US metadata format used by many of the organizations providing metadata to Data.gov.
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## U.K. - Data.gov.uk
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- [Data.gov.uk](https://www.data.gov.uk) is the public-facing metadata catalog
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with over 50,000 datasets in the catalog. The [Government Digital Service
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(GDS)](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service)
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[maintains the catalog](https://www.data.gov.uk/support). It runs on
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[CKAN](https://ckan.org/).
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- [Guidance.data.gov.uk](https://guidance.data.gov.uk/) provides documentation
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for data publishers and documentation for the data.gov.uk API.
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- The U.K. National Health Service maintains its own [open data
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site](https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/access-our-data-products/open-data-portal-odp)
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including a [CKAN](https://ckan.org) metadata catalog at
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<https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/>
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- [Data.gov.uk](https://www.data.gov.uk) is the public-facing metadata catalog with over 50,000 datasets. The [Government Digital Service (GDS)](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service) [maintains the catalog](https://www.data.gov.uk/support). It runs on [CKAN](https://ckan.org/).
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- [Guidance.data.gov.uk](https://guidance.data.gov.uk/) provides documentation for data publishers and documentation for the data.gov.uk API.
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- The U.K. National Health Service maintains its own [open data site](https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/access-our-data-products/open-data-portal-odp) including a [CKAN](https://ckan.org) metadata catalog at <https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/>
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## Improving this document
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If you have information on other open data efforts worldwide, please make a
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pull request against this repository and add the information that you have to
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this document. If you have trouble making the pull request, feel free to [file
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an issue](https://github.com/GSA/data.gov/issues/new) with the information
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that you have and we will work with you to get it on this page.
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If you have information on other open data efforts worldwide, please make a pull request against this repository and add the information to this document. If you have trouble making the pull request, feel free to [file an issue](https://github.com/GSA/data.gov/issues/new) with the information and we will work with you to get it on this page.
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Thank you in advance for any help you can offer to make this resource more
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useful.
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Thank you in advance for any help you can offer to make this resource more useful.
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-- The Data.gov team [datagovsupport@gsa.gov](mailto:datagovsupport@gsa.gov)
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-- The Data.gov team
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[datagov@gsa.gov](mailto:datagov@gsa.gov)

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