For the past two years, the audience of the national open data platform data.gouv.fr has been steadily increasing, reaching over 185,000 unique visitors in December 2017.
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Monthly unique visitors increased 105% from June 2016 to June 2017 and 51% from December 2016 to December 2017.
The platform currently has more than 33,000 datasets opened by over 1,200 organizations. Among the 1,200 organizations, we find all the ministries and most of the agencies under their supervision, the National Assembly and the Senate, administrative and judicial authorities as well as local authorities, representing all territorial levels.
Three communities of use, three "thematic verticals
The activity report of the General Data Administrator (GDA) highlights the emergence of multiple user communities gathered around thematic reference data, formats, tools and practices that structure the data ecosystem vertically: the "thematic verticals"In recent years, it has become clear that cataloguing thousands of datasets is not enough to allow administrations and society as a whole to exploit their full potential. Indeed, maximizing the reuse of these data requires not only making them discoverable but also removing the barriers to use to facilitate their appropriation as well as opening and encouraging a dialogue between producers and potential reusers in order to promote virtuous feedback loops.The first three initiatives of this type correspond to ecosystems that are already well structured: the geographic data vertical, the business data vertical and the transportation data vertical. These "thematic verticals" now enrich the data.gouv.fr platform.
The geographic data vertical has taken shape around geo.data.gouv.fr. This geographic data distribution platform now references more than 100,000 geographic data sets, 20,000 of which can be downloaded in open data from 118 local or national portals. In parallel, an application programming interface geo.api.gouv.fr has been deployed to allow users to use these reference data as simply as possible. More than a billion calls were made to these APIs in 2017, demonstrating the appetite of reusers for making data available in API form in addition to raw data for download. In 2017, the National Address Base geocoding API recorded more than 1 billion requests and 11.8 million unique visitors in the first ten months of the year, compared to 443 million requests and 5.5 million unique visitors in all of 2016. The Geo API, for its part, counted nearly 200 million requests during 2017.The enterprise data vertical: following the opening of the INSEE directory of companies and their establishments (Sirene directory), Etalab initiated the implementation of a vertical untied to enterprise data on the model of the geographic data vertical. The enterprise API (entreprise.api.gouv.fr), was being used at the end of 2017 by about a hundred administrations to simplify administrative procedures and avoid asking for supporting documents. Over the month of December 2017, more than 1.2 million pieces of information were obtained via this API and were therefore not requested from companies again.The transport data vertical: the Ministry of Transport and the DINSIC digital services incubator agreed in the summer of 2017 to develop together, within the framework of a State startup, a platform for access to open transport data. This platform prefigures the future national access point transport.data.gouv.fr. At the end of 2017, the stations, stops and theoretical timetables of public transport in the agglomerations of Brest, Toulouse and Grenoble were integrated into the pilot.In 2018, the General Data Administrator will work to document the social and economic impacts of improved data flow, following up on the first GDA report that analyzed the mechanisms of value creation through data.
Etalab has been publishing for a few months a detailed dashboard of data.gouv.fr usage (visits, visitors, actions, events, searches on the site, referrers).
Established by Decree No. 2014-1050 of September 16, 2014, the General Data Administrator (GDA) is placed under the authority of the Prime Minister and reports to the interdepartmental director of the State's digital and information and communication system.
AGD coordinates the work of jurisdictions in data inventory, governance, production, flow and exploitation.
It organizes the best use of these data and their widest circulation, while respecting the protection of personal data and secrets protected by law, in particular for the purposes of evaluating public policies, improving the transparency of public action and stimulating research and innovation.
It encourages and supports the development and use of data science practices within the administration.
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