Last updated: 13/03/2025
Open data and reuse of public sector information
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Open data are those data that anyone is free to use, reuse and redistribute, with the only limit, if applicable, of the attribution requirement of its source or recognition of its authorship.
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The reuse of public sector information consists of the use, by natural or legal persons, of information generated by public sector bodies, for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
Reuse implies, by way of illustration, activities such as the copying, dissemination, modification, adaptation, extraction, reordering and combination of information.
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The reuse of public sector information facilitates the development of new products, services and solutions of high socio-economic value.
Likewise, it allows to reverse in society the knowledge and direct benefits derived from the activity of public administrations in conditions of transparency.
The reuse thus helps to improve the reliability and security of the data that they manage and also contributes to a closer and efficient design of public services.
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The platform Open Government Data It is constituted as the meeting point between the administrations, companies and the citizens interested in the openness of public information and the development of advanced data-driven services.
Datos.gob.es allows visitor interaction and provides visibility to the actions carried out within the framework of the Contribute Initiative, the open data strategy of Spain.
Datos.gob.es organizes and manages the Public Information Catalogue of the public sector.
This platform provides general information, training materials and current news on the reuse of public sector information.
In line with the objectives of the Contribute Initiative, this service aims to stimulate the opening and reuse of public sector information and to do so, in addition, with the creative participation of its users.
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The portal Open Government Data It is designed as a meeting point between the different actors – users, infomediaries and public bodies – involved in the culture of open data.
It is a unique access point to Public Administration data sets and a catalyst for information reuse initiatives or success stories through the Impact section.
News, interviews or national and international events have a place in the News section, designed to bring to all audiences the latest news on the opening and reuse of public information.
From the Documentation section of the Interacts section, you can access training materials, national RISP strategies, guides and regulations.
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Across the Catalogue of Public Information Multiple services and data sets of the public sector are accessed, classified by: categories, format, publisher, etc.
A data set is a series of data linked to each other and grouped within the same information system for potential reuse. These Datasets (in its Anglo-Saxon name) are hosted on the servers of the different publishing bodies to which it gives access datos.gob.es.
How to register and share data sets is explained in datos.gob.
They offer a wide range of information (censuses, directories, images…) from different management areas or categories.
Given the multiplicity of sources, resource types, formats, and publisher agencies, data may be at different levels of development within the classification scale of the database. World Wide Web Consortium (W3).
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Applications reuse public data to enable it to be viewed, viewed and understood through a website or mobile device.
Applications, whether institutional or private, free or free, automate and contextualize the information. In this way, they transform the resources released by the administrations into products and services of high social and/or economic value.
There are as many kinds of applications on open data in the public sector as types of information and potential users can be described.
In any case, the most popular products and services are those derived from the reuse of information from the business-economic, geographic, cartographic, legal, transport, sociodemographic, statistical, and meteorological fields, among others.
To upload and share an application in datos.gob.es you only have to go to the Interact section, in the section Report on and select the Applications option. To register an application you have to fill in the form that once sent will be reviewed by the team of datos.gob.es before its publication in the section Impact, section Applications.
Access to the Applications Classified by categories, platform, etc.
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Approved the reform of the European regulations on open data and reuse of public sector information, in the OJEU of 26/06/2019 (informative note):
DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/1024 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 June 2019 on open data and the reuse of public sector information (recast).
Spain has a deadline of 17 July 2021 to transpose this directive into Spanish law.
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Access the section of newsde datos.gob.es.
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Access to the Frequently asked questions.
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The Spanish public administrations have at their disposal a logo Open data to identify the web spaces or catalogs where they publish their list of available open data.
In Open Government Data The open data logo is available for download.
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Access to Reports and Studies.