Dutch Government Products and Services: 50,000 Entries from 400 Authorities

Samenwerkende Catalogi Producten en Diensten is a collection of metadata for 50,000 government products and services offered in the Netherlands. The dataset aggregates information from approximately 400 connected local and national administrations, including municipalities, provinces, and water boards. It is published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties and is available via API and the Government.nl portal.

Use Cases

• Build a service discovery portal based on the metadata of government offerings.
• Analyze the distribution of service types across different government tiers based on the collection's categorization.
• Train a classifier to map citizen queries to relevant government services based on the described metadata.
• Conduct a comparative study of service provision between local and national administrations.

Strengths

• Contains metadata for 50,000 distinct products and services.
• Aggregates data from approximately 400 distinct government authorities.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• 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

Likely aggregated via a centralized cataloging system from participating authorities.

Time Range

null

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Netherlands