2025-05-30 –, Seminar room 1
Open data are defined as " open type data " in Article 68 of the CAD and are considered fundamental elements in the implementation of the European Directive on public sector information. Their publication is a legal obligation.
The Public Administration’s Open Data Portal is the catalog of open government data for the South Tyrolean territory. As a catalog, it contains information (metadata) about the open data (freely downloadable) of the territory, the organizations which produce and manage them, as well as references (links) to the data themselves.
Open data are typically made available as an archive and/or as a web service. In the case of public administration, open data also have great value as trust enablers: making production data available means generating transparency, which allows citizens to monitor the work, product, choices, and measure the performance of the public administration.
As of 24/03/2025, the Open Data Portal of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano has 621 datasets in its catalog, totaling 3326 resources. The Open Data Portal (https://data.civis.bz.it/) is implemented with CKAN (https://ckan.org/), the market-leading open-source product in this specific sector.
The portal mentioned comprehends also a variety of geographic data (geodata), organized in the GeoCatalogue, which has become an integral part of the MapView GeoBrowser since October 2024. This is a great advantage for users, as they will find all the data in one place. Users can search and view themes and their metadata and download them. This integration allows to combine GeoBrowser data with GeoCatalogue data and export it, for example, as custom maps. The MapView online portal thus becomes the most important platform for accessing and downloading governmental geodata, sector plans and other geographic information. This system is the result of the collaboration between the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, the Consortium of Municipalities, the Civil Protection Agency and, in the role of technological partner, Informatica Alto Adige Spa.
The South Tyrolean public administrations offer Open Government Geodata through the integrated MapView system, aiming to its wide use. The license for most datasets, as published in their metadata, is the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 (CC0) license. Before downloading the data or using the webservices, users are invited to take note of the license.
Recent and new projects, especially in the mobility sector, are leading towards the shared use of existing open data resources in South Tyrol.
For example, the Euregio project DIGIWAY brings the shared use of hiking routes and road networks.
Looking ahead to the planned MMCS (Mobility Management Center Südtirol), one of the aims is to share official traffic events such as closures or detours in addition to the official road network of the administration.
In this way public administration, research and development are growing ever closer together through the shared use of open data.
My name is Renate Marmsoler and I have been coordinating geographic information systems for the South Tyrolean provincial administration for more than two decades.
As a member of a transparent administration the provision of Open Government Data has been one of my institutional goals for years.