1. 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

2. 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.
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3. National Open Data Portal and LOD
REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA
State eGovernment Agency
National Open Data Portal and LOD
Open Data Policy & Legislation
Progress Overview
National Open Data Portal
Best Practices
Looking forward & developing the ecosystem -LOD
27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

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

5. REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA
State eGovernment Agency
1.1. Open Data Policy
Strategy for Development of Electronic Governance in the Republic of Bulgaria and the Roadmap for the implementation
Strategy for Development of the State Administration and the Roadmap for the implementation
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6. 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
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7. 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.
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8. 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
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9. 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 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
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10. 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 with 60 data sets
27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

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

12. 2.1. What we did?
Amendments to the Law on Access to Public Information (December February 2019);
Development of the National Open Data Portal (January March 2016) and Upgrade via new National Open Data Portal;
Priority opening datasets with high public importance (February May 2019);
There are 9641 datasets from 502 public agencies and registered users published on the Bulgarian open data portal);
High positions in international rankings for open data (November November 2018 via Reports by the European Commission within four years - Open Data Maturity Report.
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13. 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
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14. 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;
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15. 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

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

17. 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
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18. 3.2. National Open Data Portal
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19. 3.3. National Open Data Portal
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20. 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
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21. 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
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22. 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
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23. 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
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24. 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
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25. 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
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26. 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
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27. Technical Guidelines (8/8)
Technical Guidelines and Instructions for uploading data sets in open format on the National Open Data Portal (
Instruction for installing the Automated Data Input Tool (
User instructions for the Open Data Portal (
Instructions for the main administrators, roles and functions of the Open Data Portal
27/05/2019,Linked Open Statistical Data

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

29. 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

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

31. Data Quality 5 Star
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32. Data Quality FAIR
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33. Linked Open Data on ODP REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency
15/04/2019, Study Visit Republic of Kosovo

34. Linked Open Data - API REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency
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35. 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
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36. QUESTIONS ? REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA State eGovernment Agency
Official Contacts:
Bulgaria, 1000 Sofia, 6 "Gen. Yosif V. Gurko" Str.
Tel.: (+359 2)
Reny Borisova
State Expert, Data Department
Information Systems & Interoperability Directorate
Tel.: (+359 2)