OPEN DATA REUSE IV
• Coordination issues. The EU-27 often reports difficulties in enabling smooth governance of data management at all levels of government (Carsaniga et al., 2020). • Commitment to the subject of open data. Encouraging different actors to provide and use open data is a widely spread challenge throughout the EU (Carsaniga et al., 2020). • An additional aspect of open data publishing is the need for more support, in legal, technical and financial terms, when it comes to publishing high-quality open data (Carsaniga et al., 2020). • Regarding awareness and communication, any action must also include examples of data reuse by the public sector. The collection and communication of these examples and usage cases greatly helps to understand the importance of the public sector’s role as a data reuser (Osimo and Pizzamiglio, 2023). • Regarding policy and regulation, it would be beneficial to align the European Commission’s regulation improvement activities and work plans with open data publishing activities, in order to better explore internal data needs. Furthermore, it would be useful to facilitate a similar alignment and analysis of data needs for all European public administrations. For example, this could be done by providing examples, best practices and methodologies on how to determine data needs for policy and regulatory purposes (Osimo and Pizzamiglio, 2023).
• Existing monitoring activities, such as surveys, should be reviewed to ensure that the public sector includes the reuse of data. It would be useful to create a user group, based on the existing broad community, that could be used to conduct new surveys (Osimo and Pizzamiglio, 2023). • The role of data administrators remains fundamental in promoting reuse. Therefore, examples, best practices and methodologies on the role of data administrators should be included in supporting activities, not specifically for public sector reusers, but in general (Osimo and Pizzamiglio, 2023). The characteristics of Spanish open data portals go beyond simply allowing users to find available datasets. There is a common focus on interaction between data publishers and reusers through discussion forums, data-specific feedback systems and rating systems. By using examples, portals expose valuable cases of open data reuse (Carsaniga et al., 2020). The best practices related to each of the open data maturity dimensions explored in this report can be highly beneficial for all countries in Europe and beyond to get inspired, learn and work towards improving their own practices. Spain is one of the countries that sets the trend in terms of open data management (Carsaniga et al., 2020).
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