Practical guide to building future proof Open Data Portals - European <strong>Data Portal</strong> - European Data Portal

The report suggests the following 10-item list for portal owners to consider:         

• Organising for use of the datasets (rather than simply for publication);
• Learning from the techniques utilised by recently emerged commercial data marketplaces; promoting use via the sharing of knowledge, co-opting methods common in the open source software community;
• Investing in discoverability best practices, borrowing from e-commerce;
• Publishing good quality metadata, to enhance reuse;
• Adopting standards to ensure interoperability;
• Co-locating tools, so that a wider range of users and re-users can be engaged with;
• Linking datasets to enhance value;
• Being accessible by offering both options for big data, such as Application Programme Interfaces, and options for more manual processing, such as comma separated value files, thus ensuring a wide range of user needs are met;
• Co-locating documentation, so that users do not need to be domain experts in order to understand the data;