National Open Data Portal and LOD REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal and LOD Reny Borisova State Expert, Data Department, Information Systems & Interoperability Directorate www.e-gov.bg,

State e-Government Agency REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency State e-Government Agency Policy Field: Electronic Governance; Electronic Certification Services; Electronic Identification; Network and Information Security; Spatial Information Infrastructure; Public Sector Information for re-use in machine-readable open data format. 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal and LOD REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal and LOD Open Data Policy & Legislation Progress Overview 2015-2019 National Open Data Portal Best Practices Looking forward & developing the ecosystem -LOD 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal and LOD REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal and LOD Open Data Policy & Legislation Progress Overview 2015-2019 National Open Data Portal Best Practices Looking forward & developing the ecosystem -LOD 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency 1.1. Open Data Policy Strategy for Development of Electronic Governance in the Republic of Bulgaria 2014-2020 and the Roadmap for the implementation Strategy for Development of the State Administration 2014-2020 and the Roadmap for the implementation 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

1.2. Open Data Legislation Access to Public Information Act REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency 1.2. Open Data Legislation Access to Public Information Act Ordinance on the standard terms and conditions of public sector information reuse and its open format publishing on the Open Data Portal Decisions of the Council of Ministers on approving the List of data sets by priority area to be published in open format 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

Access to Public Information Act REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency Access to Public Information Act 1. Every public sector body shall plan, on an annual basis, the staged publication on the Internet, in open format, of the free access information resources maintained by itself. 2. The Council of Ministers shall adopt, on an annual basis a list of sets of data to be published in open format on the Internet 3. State eGovernment Agency creates and maintains an Open Data Portal. 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

Ordinance is determined REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency Ordinance is determined 1. Requirements for creating and maintaining public information in an open format. 2. Defines the order and method of publishing public information for re-use in open format 3. Determine the standard terms (licenses) for re-using information and publishing it in an open format 4. Define the requirements for creating and maintaining public information in an open format 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency List of data sets (1/2) 1. Decision No. 103 of the Council of Ministers (CoM)dated 17 February 2015 with 119 data sets 2. Decision No. 214 of the Council of Ministers dated 25 March 2016 with 304 data sets 3. Decision No. 897 of the Council of Ministers dated 21 October 2016 on amending and supplementing of Decision No. 214 of the CoM dated 25 March 2016 with 4 data sets 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency List of data sets (2/2) 4. Decision No. 436 of the Council of Ministers of 04 August 2017 with 149 data sets 5. Decision No. 54 of the Council of Ministers of 01 February 2019 with 60 data sets 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal and LOD REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal and LOD Open Data Policy & Legislation Progress Overview 2015-2019 National Open Data Portal Best Practices Looking forward & developing the ecosystem -LOD 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

2.1. What we did? Amendments to the Law on Access to Public Information (December 2014 - February 2019); Development of the National Open Data Portal (January 2015 - March 2016) and Upgrade via new National Open Data Portal; Priority opening datasets with high public importance (February 2015 - May 2019); There are 9641 datasets from 502 public agencies and 1069 registered users published on the Bulgarian open data portal); High positions in international rankings for open data (November 2015 - November 2018 via Reports by the European Commission within four years - Open Data Maturity Report. 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

2.2. What we are doing? Adoption of amendments to the Law on Access to Public Information (September 2019); Preparation and adoption of the Regulation on standard conditions for reuse of public sector information and its publication in open format (June 2019); Preparing fourth national action plan in the framework of the "Open Government Partnership“ Creating and developing New National Open Data Portal Creating regulation on structure, compositions and standards of data and metadata (September 2019) Working on detailed survey for prioritization of data sets and detecting the most significant for the re-users 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

2.3. Results Great effect from last legislation changings: annually lists with priority datasets for publications; prioritization and publication of datasets become an ongoing process; number of published datasets increasing very fast, forming proactive administration with employees with higher level of knowledge in Open Data field. Good collaboration on National Level; More active society and NGO sector; 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

2.4. Achievements The law has an open default license and encourages data holders to provide their data in an open license with the least restrictive conditions Publishing more and more data sets every year; Sufficient quantity and quality data sets; pdf formats are not allowed; goes in the direction of providing a 3-star level of the 5-star model where the data is machine-readable; DCAT-AP compliant metadata; The Ordinance encourages automation and updating to be done in a timely and simplified way through API interfaces and this creates conditions for data connectivity 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal and LOD REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal and LOD Open Data Policy & Legislation Progress Overview 2015-2019 National Open Data Portal Best Practices Looking forward & developing the ecosystem -LOD 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

3.1. National Portals in European Union 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 till now Spain Slovenia Belgium Austria Bulgaria Croatia Исландия United Kingdom Estonia Denmark Cyprus Check Latvia France Germany Finland Hungary Lichtenstein Italy Greece Ireland Lithuania Luxembourg Holland Romania Poland Malta Norway Slovakia Portugal Sweden Switzerland 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

3.2. National Open Data Portal https://old.opendata.government.bg/ 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

3.3. National Open Data Portal https://opendata.government.bg/ https://data.egov.bg/ 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

National Open Data Portal (1/8) REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal (1/8) 1. A single, central, public web-based information system that provides for the publication, management and exchange of information for re-use in an open, machine-readable format along with relevant metadata 2. Allows complete retrieval of published information or parts of it 3. On PHP open source platform 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal (2/8) REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal (2/8) 4. Public sector organizations support and provide public information in an open, machine-readable format that allows re-use 5. Leaders of public sector organizations designate account administrators who fill in the details of the organization and publish the information 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal (3/8) REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal (3/8) 6. Publish the defined data sets (registers, lists, statistics, etc.) in an open format to the portal 7. Upgrading the portal and creating an automatic update mechanism is forthcoming 8. Regulated by European Directive 2013/37/EU on the re-use of public sector information 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal (4/8) REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal (4/8) 9. Created under the project funded by the Bulgarian Council of Ministers, co-funded through the operational program ”Good Governance” 10. Migrate over 8000 data sets, more than half of these not in open format 11. Use only open source tools and libraries 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal (5/8) REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal (5/8) 12. No RDBMS allowed for data storage and search 13. Implement using SOA 14. Robust architecture that allows updates and maintenance on the go without downtime 15. Central log management and monitoring tools 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal (6/8) REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal (6/8) 16. Extensive documentation covering both user and technical sides, including API, administration guide, installation & maintenance guide, as well as end-user guide 17. Project phases to cover Requirements Elicitation & Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Training for 80 people 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal (7/8) REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal (7/8) 18. Data automation tool to run on all operating systems, must have a webbased user interface, be accessible over the network and automate data upload from different sources, incl. MySQL, Oracle, Postgre, Informix and others. 19. More information at https://finite-soft.com/ 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

Technical Guidelines (8/8) Technical Guidelines and Instructions for uploading data sets in open format on the National Open Data Portal (http://www.strategy.bg/FileHandler.ashx?fileId=7339) Instruction for installing the Automated Data Input Tool (https://data.egov.bg/document/view/6) User instructions for the Open Data Portal (https://data.egov.bg/help) Instructions for the main administrators, roles and functions of the Open Data Portal 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal and LOD REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal and LOD Open Data Policy & Legislation Progress Overview 2015-2019 National Open Data Portal Best Practices Looking forward & developing the ecosystem -LOD 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

Best Practices National Statistical Institute REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency Best Practices National Statistical Institute Institute of Public Administration Sofia Municipality Data Science Society NGO Links Society & Activists 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

National Open Data Portal and LOD REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency National Open Data Portal and LOD Open Data Policy & Legislation Progress Overview 2015-2019 National Open Data Portal Best Practices Looking forward & developing the ecosystem -LOD 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

Data Quality 5 Star 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

Data Quality FAIR 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

Linked Open Data on ODP REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency https://www.ontotext.com/company/news/linked-data-advantages-open-data-government/ 15/04/2019, Study Visit Republic of Kosovo www.e-gov.bg,

Linked Open Data - API REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

Goals Short Term Goals Educate and train more people from administrations engaged with Open Data; Publish new priority datasets on the portal according to the annual schedule; Promote benefits of Open Data; Long-term Goals Migrate data sets and administrators’ accounts with better quality and content on the new portal; Progress in standardization and unifications; Increasing usability of Open Data Linked Open Data and stimulate new services and applications 27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data www.e-gov.bg,

QUESTIONS ? REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency Official Contacts: Bulgaria, 1000 Sofia, 6 "Gen. Yosif V. Gurko" Str. Tel.: (+359 2) 949 20 40 E-mail: mail@e-gov.bg https://e-gov.bg Reny Borisova State Expert, Data Department Information Systems & Interoperability Directorate Tel.: (+359 2) 949 22 83 E-mail: rborisova@e-gov.bg www.e-gov.bg,