European Data Portal
On April 21, 2021 data.europa.eu was launched as a single access point for open data published by EU Institutions, national portals of EU Member states and non-member states, as well as international organisations of predominantly European scope. The portal consolidates datasets previously available via the EU Open Data Portal and the European Data Portal into a single meta-catalogue. The European Data Portal, launched in its beta version on November 16, 2015, was an initiative of the European Commission, and part of the Digital Single Market.
Type of site | Public service portal and institutional information |
|---|---|
| Available in | 24 official languages of the European Union |
| Predecessor(s) | European Data Portal; EU Open Data Portal |
| Owner | European Union |
| Created by | EU Publications Office |
| URL | data |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Not required but soon to be offered for advanced features such as saving queries and receiving alerts |
| Launched | 21 April 2021 |
Content license | Creative Commons ‘CC‑BY‑4.0’ for editorial content; dataset licensing varies |
Currently, more than 1,600,000 datasets are published on the portal, originating from 178 catalogues.The portal is a metadata catalogue: in it, metadata from other data and geospatial data catalogues are published following a common ontology, namely the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) with the aim of fostering and facilitating re-use of open data, promotion and support for the publication of (meta)data of high quality and use of Linked Open Data.
The contents of the portal are available in all 24 EU Official Languages and can be freely re-used for any purpose as Open Data, following the specific license terms of datasets.