A list of uniform names for products and services across Dutch government organizations, including provinces, water boards, municipalities, and the national government. The dataset includes features such as legal basis, target group, theme, and 'comes-for-if'. It is published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under the CC0-1.0 license and is part of the Co-operating Catalogues standard.
Use Cases
- Improving findability of government services based on uniform product names.
- Integrating heterogeneous product information into facilities based on standardized naming.
- Analyzing service themes and target groups across different government tiers.
- Supporting data reuse and synergy in public sector product catalogs.
Strengths
- Includes products from multiple government tiers: provinces, water boards, municipalities, and national government.
- Covers multiple features per product, such as legal basis and target group.
- Available in multiple machine-readable formats: RDF XML, CSV, and JSON.
- Released under a permissive public domain license (CC0-1.0).
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
- Collection Method
- Developed as a standardization effort to unify naming across government organizations.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Netherlands