Ireland 46% open

There are multiple databases provided. Multiple data variables are selected from drop down menus and are then downloadable in mulitple formats.

Data pivot tables are also available in beyond 20/20 which is a norm for data users in this domain.

Data are also available as linked data http://data.cso.ie/

The data are available under two IP regimes and an access policy,

• "Statistics disseminated on this site are copyright of The Government of Ireland" http://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/copyrightpolicy/ and "
• The statistics and other information provided on this site are accessible free of charge and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (version 4.0 cc-by)" http://cso.ie/en/aboutus/copyrightpolicy/
• Publication on the Web Policy http://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/dissemination/publicationpolicyontheweb/

Water Quality is monitored by the Irish EPA and data is publicly released. Only attribution is sought, however no specific licence type is applied.

Data monitoring happens on a regular basis, however, the most recent files available for download are 10 months old indicating data is not provided in a timely and up to date manner

Data is accessible through the following series of steps

• Access through https://data.gov.ie/dataset/water-quality
• Click "Direct Link" under Geospatial (which is not a direct link)
• Brings you to http://gis.epa.ie/
• Click little arrow under Get Data
• Click little arrow under EPA Database
• Select Water Quality and Monitoring
• Select appropriate file
• Enter email address at bottom of table
• Enter email address again
• Complete Captcha
• Click "Send"
• Wait an indeterminate amount of time (after 90 mins at time of writing, no email from EPA has arrived)

On this basis, machine readable category has been set to no as it can not be determined at time of writing

I have sent them a note with regards to the licence.

Last Data are available as discussed here Access to Information on the Environment http://www.epa.ie/about/info/aie/#.VGvoE2f-s9N, also read the SAFER Conditions of Download and Access http://erc.epa.ie/safer/downloadValidityCheck.jsp.

The data are available in Bulk see here http://www.epa.ie/air/quality/dev/#.VGvpC2f-s9O also downloadable from the viewer http://gis.epa.ie/Envision/

Part of Met Eireann data is accessible through the Met Eireann site but in HTML only. Copyright notice on http://www.met.ie/copyright/default.asp states attribution only required however commercial use of data is prohibited.

Other data is available on https://data.gov.ie/dataset/weather-observations however this is only on a monthly basis. No licence information is provided. The direct links, again, extend out to another website, http://eca.knmi.nl/dailydata/customquery.php where data can only be downloaded on a piece by piece basis. The data on this site does not include all testing stations.

There is no machine readable daily accessible feed of data open to the public that can be found

I have sent another note regarding bulk download and the licence. They did not get back to me last year so I have chanced bulk download to no.

YES - MACHINE READABLE, the data are available in PDF format and also html.

UNSURE: AVAILABLE IN BULK I have sent them a question, they now have mobile apps, which means it may possible via some sort of API? I have sent them a question. isb@propylon.com

NO: Open Licence, I have sent them a question, in the footer of the site the following is indicated "© Government of Ireland. Oireachtas Copyright Material is reproduced with the permission of the Houses of the Oireachtas". There is no licence information on the site.

These data are fully described on the GeoPortal here - https://www.geoportal.ie/geoportal/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B7694AD1E-CA9C-41D6-B6C2-4AEE89C48BCD%7D

The URL provided is to a viewer https://www.landdirect.ie, and I was unable to access or view national parcel data.

I have sent a note to the PRA.

The Tender Advisory Service (TAS) is being piloted to assist suppliers who have issues or concerns with a procurement process carried out by the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) or other public sector contracting body (excluding the commercial semi-state bodies). The pilot will cover all procurement processes and will be subject to review after the first twelve months. TAS will operate through the OGP’s Customer Service Section.

Data could be more granular. I sent a question to the Dept. of Finance regarding the availability of the data in a bulk download and did not receive an answer. I will therefore leave it as a NO.

(same as 2014)

This remains unchanged from last year.

Details about Accessing CRO Data are explained here: https://www.cro.ie/en-ie/Services/Access-to-CRO-Data

Data available via free API for which signup is required at https://services.cro.ie/overview.aspx.

Bulk data are available for an annual fee: "The CRO supplies, under licence, data in bulk format for high volume users of our data. The data concerned is company information in respect of all companies on the register. It is in a specified format which may be updated to take account of changes in filing requirements. Daily updates of the data may be downloaded via the internet - a password is assigned to a Licensee to facilitate this. The fee for the daily data update service has been fixed by the Minister at €31,000 per annum."

The database can also be searched free of charge at http://search.cro.ie/company/.

Political Boundaries are available here - http://www.osi.ie/products/professional-mapping/boundary-data/ "The County, ED’s and Townlands are digitised from OSi large scale data at 1:1,000, 1:2,500 and 1:5,000 scale and are available on a county or national basis (Republic Only) in DXF, SHP and TAB formats. All boundaries are available in both Irish National Grid (IG) and Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) projections.

Small Areas are a national boundary dataset, which subdivides the existing Electoral Districts (ED) boundaries into substantially smaller units, with each small area having a minimum of 65 households."

The OSI is governed by the ORDNANCE SURVEY IRELAND ACT, 2001 http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/act/pub/0043/, which means that it is the states NMO but also a commercial enterprise.

There is an interactive map Viewer http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,588882,739883,0,10 that allows the public to visualize the data.

Data are available via webmapping service called MapGenie http://www.osi.ie/Services/MapGenie.aspx with additional information provided here http://www.osi.ie/Services/MapGenie-Learn-More.aspx. Data are accessed this way via an institutional agreements between clients and OSI. MapGenie is not open to the public on a free basis.

The data are machine readable as just explained but for a fee and the same is true for data available in bulk.

In terms of Intellectual Property OSI data are protected under the Copyright and related Act 2000 as discussed here it data are not available under an OPEN LICENCE, all OSI data are protected under the Copyright and related Act 2000 as discussed here http://www.osi.ie/Services/Copyright.aspx, and Copyright Permit CP1 and there are Licence Fees. For example "copyright Ordnance Survey Ireland and Government of Ireland and are protected under the terms of the Copyright Acts. Anyone wishing to reproduce OSi material, or use it as a basis for their own publications, must obtain prior permission from OSi. The permit covers reproduction of OSi mapping data in facsimile form and also the use of copyright material in a new compilation based on OSi mapping. The permit requires that an acknowledgement to Ordnance Survey Ireland and Government of Ireland copyright and a permit number must appear on the final reproduction".

The OSI has allowed some academic institions to display and use their data via MapGenie here is one example (http://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/datastore/private-households-t5-sa) however this is for non commercial use only

Ireland has just released its postal code data. I have sent them a question with regards to data formats.

The data are machine readable, and the data can be downloaded in bulk and they are available online but only for a fee. https://www.eircode.ie/business/products-and-services

The pricing and licences are as follows: https://www.eircode.ie/docs/default-source/Common/licensing-and-pricing-information-as-of-september-2015---published-v-3.pdf?sfvrsn=2

The aggregated data that are publicly available at the program expenditure level but not available at the actual expenditure level, i.e. transactional level.

There was some dispute here, and it was dediced to assume that these do exist even though a link is not provided, as to get to the programme level actual expenditures are required. http://databank.per.gov.ie/Expenditure.aspx

I have sent this office an email to see if the licence may have changed and if by chance they have a plan to have their data shared in .xls

Election referendum results from (2002 - 20145 are available online for local, county, national and European by constituency per candidate, per count. Bye-election results are also available.

Data are available in pdf documents, so not machine-readable.

The data are under Government Copyright and therefore not open see here - http://www.environ.ie/en/Tools/TermsandConditions/ and also under a PSI Re-Use licence http://www.environ.ie/en/AboutUs/Re-useofPublicSectorInformation/

National Election data are also available here - http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?DocId=-1&CatID=71 and those data are under this licence Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations (S.I. 279/2005) http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/about/copyrightandre-use/ which differs from the Copyright note above, in essense election results are on different sites and fall under different intellectual property regimes.