High value datasets

What are high value datasets?

High value datasets are datasets that hold significant value for society. These are made available with priority by government organisations and are also published on data.overheid.nl. A distinction is made between two types of high value datasets:

• Hoogwaardige dataset | EU: datasets that belong to one of the categories established by the European Union as important datasets. More information can be found at http://data.overheid.nl/hoogwaardige-dataset.
• High Value | Decentraal: datasets that are primarily used at local and regional levels and belong to one of the categories outlined in lists created for municipalities and provinces. More information is available at https://data.overheid.nl/nationale-high-value-datasets.

When a dataset 'high value' is, is determined by the degree of contribute the data to:

• Transparancy
• Legal duty
• Cost Reduction
• Target audience
• Potential for reuse

For example

The G8 Open Data Charter has fourteen categories determined as 'high value'. This list give a indication of potential high value datasets and its helpful for data owners for opening the most relevant and useful datasets.

High Value?

On data.overheid.nl high value datasets are marked and searchable. We have high value datasets when its defined in:

• The data is marked by the data-inventory through a department as high value
• The data is included in the municipal high value data list.
• The data is included in the provincial high value data list.

When assembling the national high value data lists the lists below are our inspiration:

• The Open Data Barometer
• Some other (international) benchmarks