Municipal Data Inventory for Utrecht, Netherlands

An Excel spreadsheet from the Municipality of Utrecht catalogs datasets used by its organizational units. The inventory, created by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, indicates which datasets are publicly accessible, which are published as machine-readable open data, and which are withheld due to reasons like privacy or quality concerns. The dataset is licensed under CC0-1.0.

Use Cases

• Discovering available municipal datasets based on the listed organizational units.
• Identifying machine-readable open data sources for automated analysis based on the 'open data' status field.
• Understanding barriers to data publication based on the documented reasons for non-publication.
• Planning data requests or advocacy efforts based on the inventory of internal datasets.

Strengths

• Provides a structured overview of municipal data holdings, which is a foundational resource for transparency.
• Explicitly distinguishes between publicly accessible and machine-readable open data, clarifying data usability.
• Documents reasons for non-publication, offering insight into data governance constraints.

Limitations

• Row count, column names, and sample data are unknown; data structure and content must be inspected after download.
• Last update date is unknown; the inventory's freshness and completeness are unverified.
• The description is medium-completeness; detailed metadata about individual listed datasets is not provided.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Result of an inventory of datasets carried out within the municipality of Utrecht.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Municipality of Utrecht, Netherlands