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Bulgaria / 2013 52% open

Bulgaria is ranked #20 in the 2013 Index

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. Score
10 National Statistics
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http://www.nsi.bg/ Excel, ... n/a 90%
10 National Statistics
URL: http://www.nsi.bg/
Format: Excel, CSV, HTML

The data is available at the National Statistics Institute. It keeps data on quite a lot of aspects of economics and demographics. The data is however only in XLS format and in Bulgarian language. Bulk download is not possible. Historic data is limited.


5 Pollutant Emissions
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http://pdbase.government.bg/fo... RDF n/a 90%
5 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://pdbase.government.bg/forms/public_eprtr.jsp
Format: RDF

The data is available as part of an online registry. It includes information on the industrial/agricultural installations that emit pollution and the pollution generated from each one. The data is submitted to the EEA and can be downloaded as part of the full RDF dataset: http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/pgDownloadDataSet.aspx


14 Election Results
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http://www.cik.bg/ CSV n/a 90%
14 Election Results
URL: http://www.cik.bg/
Format: CSV

The data is updated almost in real time as the election results are processed It is not available in bulk, but the information is in easily scrap-able htmls.


17 Legislation
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http://parliament.bg/bg/bills PDF, RTF n/a 60%
17 Legislation
URL: http://parliament.bg/bg/bills
Format: PDF, RTF

The complete legislation is available mostly via ( free web interface) to proprietary legal information systems. The State gazette provides pdfs (and some htmls) to the newly promulgated and amended laws and state ordinances The laws are not subject to copyright in Bulgaria.


14 Location datasets
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http://www.bgpost.bg/?cid=5 PDF n/a 55%
14 Location datasets
URL: http://www.bgpost.bg/?cid=5
Format: PDF

The data is available as a table inside a PDF document. It's a simple list of settlement names and postal codes. It is not geocoded.


16 Company Register
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http://brra.bg/ HTML, XML n/a 45%
16 Company Register
URL: http://brra.bg/
Format: HTML, XML

The requests to the information in the Company register requires captcha fill-in. It contains the scanned original documents, but the most important information is in html tables. The bulk automated interface in XML format is available for 15 000 euro/year .


36 Government Budget
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http://www.minfin.bg/ Excel, PDF n/a 45%
36 Government Budget
URL: http://www.minfin.bg/
Format: Excel, PDF

The Budget law is promulgated in the State gazette, so it is in the public domain. The consolidated budget framework is published on the Finance ministry website, usually as a excel generated pdf.


50 Transport Timetables
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http://www.sofiatraffic.bg/bg/... HTML n/a 20%
50 Transport Timetables
URL: http://www.sofiatraffic.bg/bg/transport/virtual-tables
Format: HTML

The data is mostly available for the capital Sofia. It's not in an open format, but there is a way to interface with the transportation company's website and is being actively used by several website offering route information and timetables. There are similar websites in other cities, but they mostly rely on static manually entered information on timetables and routes. There is a (mostly) crowdsourced) website allowing search of inter-city busses, but they don't offer data export. The state train company offers search for train routes, but also no export. The data could be scraped in some cases, but in others session information causes great difficulties.


51 National Map
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n/a n/a n/a 15%
51 National Map


There used to be an institute that compiles very precise maps, but it is now a for-profit company and sells the data: http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~rajna/cartographia/products.html There's also a national cadastre that currently compiles data on land geology and ownership, but it hasn't covered the whole country yet: http://www.cadastre.bg/


20 Government Spending
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http://www.minfin.bg/bg/transp... XLS n/a 10%
20 Government Spending
URL: http://www.minfin.bg/bg/transparency
Format: XLS

Spending data provided on a daily basis, but not at transactionnal level.


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