Less than one in ten Dutch public agencies has registered any open data on the national open data portal. For municipalities, this falls to only one in twenty. These are the main results of an assessment performed by the Open State Foundation.
According to the foundation, from 1,069 government organisations only 89 have datasets that can be found via the central government's open data portal: Although all ministries and provinces have registered one or more datasets, datasets from only 21 of a total of 395 municipalities, seven of 246 regional cooperation bodies, 12 of 155 Self-Governing Bodies and four of the 23 water boards can be found. High Councils of State and Public Bodies have not registered any open datasets yet.
More than half of the 7,813 open datasets available on the national portal were contributed by Statistics Netherlands, followed by Rijkswaterstaat (responsible for the main infrastructure facilities in the Netherlands) with 17 percent.
Hard to find
These finding do not necessarily mean that there is no open data available from these organisations. Some of them have published open data on their own portals, but have failed to register these datasets on the central portal, making the datasets hard to find.