Published on 06 December 2011, by Denis Leclercq - updated 06 December 2011 to 16 h - in Internet - key words: Open Data
French Open Data Portal is open, but there is still work to improve the documents and move the departments for the restitution of all the public documents.
The opening of public data was announced with great fanfare at the last G8 Summit by the President of the United States. The France follows the movement and opens his own website dedicated to the Open Data: data.gouv.fr.
For visitors, a small phrase is significant: "Strengthen the transparency of the action of the State improves the functioning and quality of service to users". It is the mission of this portal providing 352.000 documents from all departments, administrative authorities (CSA, ARCEP, etc), local communities and other public corporations such as the rail network of France. But most of these documents are in proprietary format, not complying really the image that can have "open" such as CSV or XML, data, even if Microsoft extensions documents are now supported without too many problems on all operating systems existing.
Damage, this portal does not reference the Official Journal documents or those of public procurement which are absent subscribers. It is disturbing for the first, which publishes laws, but especially for the second, because a bit of transparency on the contracts entered into by the State, regions, departments, municipalities, local and territorial authorities would have been a major step forward. However, this portal provides free access different powers and budget, revenue and expenditure of the State.
For the moment, data.gouv.fr is still in the phase of test, but for a first jet, this portal is a mine of information and will allow French citizens to follow the actions carried out by the public authorities, our elected officials or understand and analyze documents from the past to better write the future.
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