ICFES 2020: Colombian Education Evaluation Institute Information Publication Schema

A metadata catalog from the Colombian Institute for the Evaluation of Education (ICFES) for the year 2020. It describes the institute's information assets, including their format, title, update frequency, and responsible parties. The data is provided in CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF formats via the Colombian government's open data portal.

Use Cases

• Analyzing information update patterns using the 'Frecuencia de actualización' (Update Frequency) column.
• Mapping organizational responsibility for data using 'Nombre del responsable de la custodia de la información' (Custodian) and 'Nombre del responsable de la producción de la información' (Producer) columns.
• Cataloging available data assets by 'Formato' (Format) and 'Componente' (Component) for inventory management.

Strengths

• Structured metadata for government information assets, facilitating discovery.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).
• Directly sourced from the authoritative Colombian education evaluation body (ICFES).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación (ICFES), published via www.datos.gov.co.

Collection Method

Likely an official administrative catalog of information assets.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 16:38:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia