Ireland's Data Catalogue

What is the Public Service Data Catalogue?

The Public Service Data Catalogue aims to promote openness and transparency around the data held by the public service by cataloguing and describing public Service data.

As public service bodies are increasingly collecting, storing and processing large volumes of data in order to deliver public services, it was recognised that there was a growing need to Catalogue the growing amount of data being held by the public Service.

About this Catalogue

The Catalogue is designed to help people find and understand how data is used across the public Service. This will provide both the public and the public Service with greater awareness and understanding of public Service data and its usage.

With this greater transparency and openness around data, citizens and business will be empowered with knowledge of how their data is utilised.

The public Service will also benefit through the fostering of innovation and reform around data, as public bodies discover and re-use data they were previously unaware of.

About datacatalogue.gov.ie

The Public Service Data Catalogue enable PSBs to describe their data holdings, providing information on its various datasets including details such as the dataset's scope and purpose. The Catalogue provides only metadata on datasets it records and does not provide direct access to the datasets it records. However, many of datasets listed are available for download via the Open Data Portal, data.gov.ie.