Over time, the Report has become a reference on the situation of the reuse of open data in Spain, and after its first edition in 2017, promoted by a competitive PIA project of the COTEC foundation developed by the URJC team , has been published periodically every 2 years. 

This report compiles The maturity of open data portals following the European methodology, the quality of open data found in public and private data portals evaluated with the MELODA 5 metric, the current version of the metric created by Alberto Abella in the URJC in his doctoral thesis, extraordinary award from the International Doctoral School in 2017, results of the applications generated based on open data and results and opinions of those responsible for the open data portal and the temporal evolution since the first report in 2017 A consultation with experts is also carried out to assess the reputation of the data portals and the concept coined by the authors of the apparent data portal is evidenced. 

Among the striking aspects of the report, the following stand out: 

In Spain there are 58.000 datasets. They have doubled in the last 3 years. It is necessary to improve in some relevant aspects, such as, for example, in its update frequency, since 97% of them are updated in times greater than one month.

The growing phenomenon of data federation makes dataset identification tedious. 

The private sector, which is behind the public in this area, already generates 36% of the datasets.  

31% of open data do not yet have a business model defined for their reuse.

There is a clear lack of standardization. 78% of the datasets have their own data model and are not standardized, which is a great barrier to their exchange and reuse.

56% of the Spanish portals are apparent, portals with data that are not suitable for reuse according to the criteria published in impact journals by the authors.  

The report includes a set of recommendations based on the evidence found, aimed at both Public Administrations and the private sector working to improve the quality of open data with a view to its reuse. 

This report once again highlights how methodologies resulting from university research, such as MELODA, are useful tools that can help identify apparent portals and useful portals. Quality data, properly treated with the applications that we have today within reach in industry 4.0. they have the potential to generate economic and social value.   

To access the full report: https://lnkd.in/exEF4YME