Frequently Asked Questions
B40 Balkan Cities Network is an intercity organization with a shared vision for a European future and the goal to improve and expand cooperation among cities of the Balkan region. B40 Balkan Cities Network promotes establishing equal and effective partnership among member cities; hoping to share experiences and innovative solutions for decision-makers at the municipal level. B40 Balkan Cities Network recognizes that the good governance requires resilient, democratic, transparent, and inclusive local governance based on data, science and a shared wisdom. B40 Balkan Cities Network member cities underline the critical importance of the localization of the new urban agenda with a specific emphasis on the sustainable development goals.
Open data is data that can be freely used by anyone, reused and redistributed. It is usually in the most machine-readable format, depending on the quality and sharing requirement. Open data is data that “everyone can access, use, distribute and generate value from freely and openly”. The data must be available in machine readable, collective and open license format. Key features of open data: Usability and Access: The data as a whole should be downloable and conveniently available, at a cost that does not exceed the cost of reproduction. Reuse and Redistribution: Data must be provided under conditions that allow reuse and redistribution, including its use with mixing with other data sets. Universal Participation: Data must be available and distributable to everyone, without discriminating against individuals or groups. An interactive ecosystem will be created by not only the raw data sources belonging to that area, but also by making the data available to everyone. In this way; communication and mutual contributions between publishers and public institutions that offer open data will increase transparency, technological innovation and public service etc. Thanks to open data, many gains can be obtained by different institutions or organizations. Open data can be used in various planning stages, in development stages or institutional policies, in developing new incentive mechanisms and in establishing possible new collaborations, in the development of new processes, and in improving cumbersome government structures. The most important motivation reasons for publicly publishing public data are; transparency; effectiveness and efficiency; we can list them as entrepreneurship and competitiveness. When public data is published publicly, everyone can have information about how public resources are spent. This increases transparency and accountability in terms of public administration. It is known that efficiency and efficiency in public administration increase with the publication of public data. Because resource waste is observed more easily, spending priorities can be determined more easily and necessary corrections can be made faster. Finally, public publishing of public data increases entrepreneurship and competitiveness. If the data is processed at the right time and with the right method, it reveals the necessary benefits. Data is stale if the data is not processed at all or if it is processed late due to bureaucratic obstacles; loses its meaning. In order to prevent all these problems, common infrastructures should be established in cooperation to develop standard guides for data sharing, raise awareness and raise awareness of the benefits of data sharing, and to reduce the costs of processes such as anonymization.
Data sets are collections of relevant information sets that show relationships between categories and variables.
"Open format" means that the data can be read without any cost, without a paid tool, and the data has interoperability features. In open data, data is expected to be in “open format”.
The update frequency of each data set is available in the relevant metadata file. The data is updated regularly depending on availability of new information. Critical datasets are constantly maintained as information changes, while others are updated on a routine schedule.
The B40 Open Data Portal will be constantly updated with new data sets.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a set of rules and instructions on how specific software can interact with a data set. APIs generally allow flexibility to access information in a data set, so users can may choose to only select a specific and relevant subset of the information. APIs are often linked to datasets that are updated in real time.
Any data set containing sensitive data (personal data, etc.) stored in the institution will not be published on the open data portal.
Geographic Information System (GIS) includes software, applications and methodologies used to store, manage, analyze and spread spatial data.
The type of geographic data available in Open Maps is often referred to as" "Geographic data." "A street address is data that can be connected to a location on a map, such as any geographic feature, such as a town, province, or coastline, mountain or river. Location-related data is becoming increasingly important for planning, investment and management activities. Spatial data also plays an increasing role in increasing productivity and innovation.
Open maps combine geographic location data, services, and applications for use by IMM citizens. Thanks to the IMM Open Data Portal, citizens can discover the richness of spatial data. Geographic data and services available in open maps are provided under the IMM Open Data License, and the maps can be used to support your permitted research, application development or other purposes.
Comma Separated Values (CSV) - Comma Separated Values file is a plain text file containing a list of data. These files are often used to exchange data between different applications. Databases usually support CSV files. The .csv format is an open data format. Resources in the .csv file format are a simplified open document type used to represent data in a table separated by a comma (,) in the columns. Fields containing text or commas must be closed with a quotation mark ().
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In the B40 Open Data Portal, you can use the "Search Data Set" box to search by keyword and / or browse by organization, catalog type, tags, subject or file format.
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You can contact us at https://b40opendataportal/contact
As part of an effort to: create a better informed public for all cities, improve efficiencies and obtain value added benefits back from the community.
Once you are a member of the B40 Open Data Portal, you can submit your data request to us at https://data.ibb.gov.tr/tr/datarequest/new. Our Open Data team will follow your request; Note, however, that the relevant departments will not need to change their business methods to facilitate your new data collection requests.
Depending on the availability of public data from B40 member cities are selected from those who do not have any confidential feature, who do not have personal data, and that data owners agree to be open data. The datasets consist of layers that are machine readable and have no privacy restrictions.
Data in the open file formats xlsx, csv, pdf, xml, kml are available on the B40 Open Data Portal.
You can contact us at https://b40opendataportal/contact. When you click on a dataset layer, there is a short metadata entry that lists the current contact for the information of that data set.
B40 Balkan Cities Network is obliged to comply with information and privacy laws in accordance with KVKK, GDPR and other data protection standards applicable in B40 Balkan Cities Network member cities will only publish publicly available data.
You can contact us at https://b40opendataportal/contact. When you click on a dataset layer, there is a short metadata entry that lists the current contact for the information of that data set.
The intellectual property rights of the data belong to B40 Balkan Cities Network and, exceptionally, to third parties. Additional information regarding the conditions governing the use of the data can be found in the B40 Network Open Data Licence.
It is operated by Department of Information Technologies of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM).
You can find detailed information at https://b40opendataportal/privacy and https://b40opendataportal/license
By accessing datasets, you automatically accept the B40 Open Data License and Terms of Use. Please review the B40 Open Data License and Terms of Use at https://opendata.b40cities.org/en/license
By accessing data sets, you automatically accept the B40 Open Data License and Terms of Use. Please review the B40 Open Data License and Terms of Use at https://B40opendataportal/license