Open Knowledge

Italy 55% open

Italy is ranked #17 in the 2015 Index
Italy's overall Index ranking is up from #25 in 2014

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. (2014) Score
1 National Statistics
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http://dati.istat.it/ XLS, ... #1  100% 100%
1 National Statistics
URL: http://dati.istat.it/
Format: XLS, RDF, CSV, SDMX

Data most easily found at dashboard here.


1 Election Results
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http://elezioni.interno.it/ope... CSV #1  100% 100%
1 Election Results
URL: http://elezioni.interno.it/opendata.html
Format: CSV

National election results are available as open data through the portal Eligendo. Following the amendments to the Code of eGovernment in Italy, where there is no any information about the license of one of the public service, the content is released into the open data. The default license is CC-by 4.0 (this is defined in the National Guidelines released by Agid - The Digital Agency of Italy)


1 Government Budget
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http://www.rgs.mef.gov.it/VERS... CSV, Excel #1  100% 100%
1 Government Budget
URL: http://www.rgs.mef.gov.it/VERSIONE-I/Dati/OPENDATA/SpeseBS/
Format: CSV, Excel

The General Accounting Office publishes data on central government spending of the state in time series from 2007 and processable format. The data allow to follow the evolution of resources allocated, committed and paid from the state budget, broken down into the public policy goals (missions and programs), the economic nature of the expenditure (by title and economic category), the nature of 'legislative authorization (by type of authorization) and the administration responsible for the implementation and management (accounting). [amended: it is possible to download state 2013 budget as xls from http://www.rgs.mef.gov.it/_Documenti/VERSIONE-I/Servizio-s/Studi-e-do/La-spesa-d/Tavole/1-BP-2013.xls under IODL2 as well as other documents mentioned above]


12 Procurement tenders
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http://portaletrasparenza.avcp... XML n/a 90%
12 Procurement tenders
URL: http://portaletrasparenza.avcp.it/microstrategy/html/index.htm
Format: XML

The main limit of this service is the lack of a bulk download data and the need to know the names of the government institutions in order to make use of the search engine. The license should be IODL, but isn't specify the version. I assume is the 2.0 (the last that sounds like a cc-by). The specifications are here.


7 Legislation
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http://www.normattiva.it/ XML #6  90% 90%
7 Legislation
URL: http://www.normattiva.it/
Format: XML

The official repository of the law is Gazzetta Ufficiale but this is content format. An access in data format is available at Normattiva The web site offer the laws in xml format. There is no directly reference for a license, but, the owner of the service is "Istituto Poligrafico Zecca dello Stato" and this is in the list of the PAs.

Therefore, because in the terms of the code of civil administration (CAD), if a PA publishes a dataset without reference to any license, this is considered open data by default. The kind of license is specified on the guidelines for the public sector information made by the digital agency for italy (AgID). The default license is "cc-by 4.0"


21 National Map
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http://www.igmi.org/download.p... shp, ... #64  15% 60%
21 National Map
URL: http://www.igmi.org/download.php
Format: shp, geotiff

the Italian Military Geografy Institute has the official mandate to manage spatial data There are other resources (eg. National Cartographic Portal), but the refresh of data is obsolete. At present the Military Geografy Institute has an open data policy.


19 Pollutant Emissions
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http://www.brace.sinanet.apat.... XLS, CSV #23  60% 60%
19 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://www.brace.sinanet.apat.it/web/struttura.html?p_livello_1=3&p_main=web/sh_dg.inizio&p_scroll=yes
Format: XLS, CSV

Services for the donwload of the data are available. There is no license, but the copyright notice states that commercial use of the information is available only under written authorization (http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/copyright) Not all the data are available [reviewed URL specifically for air pollutants]

Reviewer Comments (22.10.2014):

QA review - Changed license to not open.


30 Location datasets
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n/a mdb, shp #34  25% 35%
30 Location datasets
Format: mdb, shp

The data of the Italian zipcode are available with a restricted form online (= captcha) The entire data set is for sale. The national open data agenda of the italian digital agency announces the release as open data in late 2014. Currently there are no confirmation. Poste Italiane doesn't offer also the address number. This resource is managed by local authorities. The Italian Institute of Statistics is also involved in this data, but doesn't release address numbers or streets with coordinates. The current status of the release of adddress numbers is in a study (often updated) by Cesare Gerbino

QA review - Changed the answered so they will refer to the dataset in bulk and not to the online application. Therefore - Publicly available, not for free, not online, is machine readable.


22 Land Ownership
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n/a cxf n/a 35%
22 Land Ownership
Format: cxf

CXF is a dialect of DXF format created by the Agenzia delle Entrate to manage the cadastry data The Autonomous Province of Trento offers the data in the land registry as public domain (cc0)


69 Weather forecast
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n/a n/a n/a 20%
69 Weather forecast


The data shall be available upon request, at this address. http://www.meteoam.it/dati_in_tempo_reale The issue is at the discretion of the service. The data can not be used for profit.


58 Company Register
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n/a n/a #26  45% 15%
58 Company Register


"Is it up to date?": there are several inconsistencies. You can access to individual entries via the online form with a search term, (http://www.registroimprese.it/richiedi-subito-documenti) but you can't download it. It's possible to pay to get the whole dataset via email.


8 Government Spending
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n/a n/a #15  10% 10%
8 Government Spending


The Italian Government has released Soldi Pubblici, http://soldipubblici.gov.it/ based on the data available through the SIOPE platform. This is the Information system through which any treasurer of public agencies reports payments on daily basis. The data however is aggregated and not transactional but the frequency indicates the data exists and is digital.


74 Water Quality
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http://www.sintai.sinanet.apat... XML n/a 0%
74 Water Quality
URL: http://www.sintai.sinanet.apat.it/view/index.faces
Format: XML

INSPRA presents data through the European portal on the water In particular is some information on this tab. http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/it/eu/uwwt/envt1ogcg The dataset is not updated since 2012.


Contributors

Reviewers

  • Georg Neumann
  • Gil Zaretzer
  • Kamil Gregor
  • Neal Bastek
  • Maurizio Napolitano
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Zach Christensen
  • anonymous
  • Nisha Thompson
  • yar michl
  • Rebecca Sentance
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Codrina Maria Ilie

Submitters

  • Francesca De Chiara
  • Maurizio Napolitano
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • anonymous
  • Andrea Raimondi
  • Aurelio Cilia
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson