How does it works?

Open Data is a global initiative which consists in allowing free access to everybody, without technical or legal limits, to data generated by public administrations. In the public sector, having access to public information guarantees transparency, efficiency and equal opportunities as well as creating value. Transparency is guaranteed because access is given to official sources; efficiency is guaranteed because citizens and organisations can create services which tie in better with public administration; equal opportunities are guaranteed because access is the same for every citizen. Value is created because new applications and services may be developed, using the information provided.

The licences and terms of use of the open data are submitted to the corresponding laws of data reuse in the public sector, and in some cases, may have intellectual property licences, although the tendency is to permit use without conditions, as long as the original contents are not manipulated, and the original source, in its most updated form, is cited.

Why give free access to the data?

With freedom to public information, there is the will to implement open government, based on the values of transparency, participation, service and efficiency. At the same time, value can be created by the reuse of public data, facilitating the internal cohesion of the public Administration systems, via the interconnectedness of services.

This website helps to guarantee the reuse of public data because it brings together all the open data initiatives of Tarragona Port Authority in a single catalogue together with associated information, when this is relevant to the possibility of reuse.

This represents a qualitative change given that, for the first time, a sizeable body of data is being opened in formats which are easy to reuse.

The continuing release of information in this website will be carried out giving priority to public service, guaranteeing the maximum quality of the data in both content and format, making them as intelligible as possible for the citizenry and using open source licencing where possible, permitting commercial reuse.

What is it possible to do with the data?

Open data allow consultation and the construction of applications, especially programs and viewing systems, that take the data as a source. Public administration itself may create applications, as may private individuals, organisations and businesses.

The type of applications that can be created with open data are very diverse and may respond to very different objectives. The uses may vary from citizens who use transport warnings on their mobiles, to associations of people with respiratory diseases who aim to monitor the levels of air pollution, through to companies that use GPS positioning of vehicles.

Other examples of the variety of applications that may be generated are maps and interactive graphics used in database journalism as well as in search engines. Information may also be used in blogs, websites, or mobile applications.

Formats with owners

Formats lliures

These are archive formats which can be created and manipulated for any programming system, free of legal restrictions.

 Compression Formats

History

Open Data is a global initiative created fundamentally in the USA and the UK from 2009 onwards. The first initiative with this philosophy is fruit of the United Nations (UNdata) , dating from the 12^th of September 2006. A year later the District of Columbia (USA) would produce its Catalogue, published on the 23^rd of October 2007. The third website of this type was the European Commission site SEMIC.EU Catalogue, published on the 17^th of June 2008.

In 2009 there were similar initiatives in the USA, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, as well as at the World Bank.

The first initiatives in the Spanish State were Open Data Euskadi and the Zaragoza Public Data Catalogue, both of which were published on the 8^th of April 2010. The Catalonia Open Data Catalogue appeared on the 8^th of November 2010. The following initiatives in Catalonia were Badalona Open Data , on the 11^th of February 2011, and Lleida Open Data on the 14^th of February 2011.

The Spanish State has created the Catálogo de Información Pública de la Administración General del Estado as the most visible element in the Project Aporta.

Other initiatives are:

 Generalitat de Catalunya

 Ajuntament de Tarragona

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The Royal Decree 1495/2011, of the 24^th of October, establishes for the State public sector the obligation that the General Administration of the State and the rest of the public sector must approve a plan for the re-use of public sector information, via electronic means, within the competencies enjoyed by the central State.

The European Commission considers that public data must be reused, as much by citizens as by businesses, given that this helps transparency as well as constituting a source of dynamism for the information society, especially in the area of digital knowledge. The Directive 2003/98/CE, of the European Parliament and the European Council, has been assimilated into Spanish State legislation via the Law 37/2007, of the 16^th of November.

The Directive, in broad terms, demands the following:

 The reuse of public sector information, in equal conditions, with or without a commercial objective

Transparency in the conditions of reuse, detailed in a licence

That taxes and prices for the reuse of data will obey the general principle of cost recovery.

Documents and licences will be facilitated electronically

The Law 37/2007, of the 16^th of November, on the reuse of public sector information, establishes the general framework for all public administrations.

 It defines RISP and the concept of the document in the ambit of reuse

 Excluded from the ambit of application are the following:

Administrative procedures in course

National defence

Areas outside of public service

Documents with intellectual or industrial property rights

Documents belonging to cultural, educative and research institutions

It establishes modalities for availability and the conditions to be met by licences

It prohibits exclusive agreements

It permits the charging of fees and public prices

It establishes the procedure of application , and the period within which the Administration must respond(20 days)

It establishes sanctions for infractions

The Royal Decree 1495/2011, of the 24^th of October, develops the Law in the State public sector, recognising the importance and the value of the information generated by the public sector, because of the interest that citizens and businesses have in it. Openness can generate economic growth and the creation of jobs, as well as generating more transparency and democratic participation.

 Authorises the general reuse of information, demanding a justification for exceptions

 Obliges Administrations to communicate which information is available

 Establishes the figure of RISP coordinator in public bodies

Establishes a State organism with the objective of assessing, promoting, raising awareness and enabling the continuing development of the Catalogue of Public Information

Obliges the Administrations to keep the Catalogue up-to-date

Conditions

The Port Authority of Tarragona favours the general modality of open data, without establishing specific conditions(article 8.1 of the Royal Decree 1495/2011, of the 24^th of October), as shown in the terms laid out in the Legal Notice.

Legal Notice on the General Modality of Reusable Documents

Compulsory Nature of the General Conditions

These General Conditions, permanently available at www.datos.gob.es/avisolegal, are of application to any and all parties who reuse said documents.

Authorisation of Reuse and Non-Exclusive Concession of Intellectual Property Rights

These General Conditions permit the reuse of documents submitted to said Conditions, with commercial and non-commercial objectives. ‘Reuse’ means that of documents which are held by the organisms of the General Administration of the Spanish State and the other bodies of the State public sector mentioned in article 1.2 of the Royal Decree 1495/2011, of the 24^th of October, which develops the Law 37/2007, of the 16^th of November, on the reuse of State public sector information, by both physical and juridical persons, with commercial and non-commercial objectives, when in all cases this use is not an activity of public administration. Reuse includes copying, dissemination, modification, adaptation, extraction, reorganisation, and combination of the information cited.

The concept of document is established in paragraph 2 of article 3 of the Law 37/2007, of the 16^th of November, on the reuse of public sector information,  and includes all information in any support, as well as the graphic, sound, or visual expression thereof, thereby including data when in its least organised, or ‘raw’ form.

This authorisation includes the free, non-exclusive, concession of intellectual property rights pertaining to each document, authorising the reproduction, distribution, publishing or transformation, according to the needs of the activity authorised, in any modality or format, by anyone and enjoying the maximum period permitted by Law.

General conditions for Reuse

The general sense of the information must be retained.

The source must be cited. This may read as following: ‘Origin of data: Tarragona Port Authority’.

The last update of cited document must be included, provided this is shown in the original document.

The party reusing the document may not indicate, insinuate or suggest that Tarragona Port Authority, as holder of the information in question, participates, sponsors, or supports the reuse carried out.

The metadata on the update, and the conditions of reuse, must be conserved, without being altered or deleted.

Exemption from responsibility

The use of data will be carried by reusing parties or agents under their own responsibility, corresponding entirely to them. They and only they shall respond to third parties in the case of damages caused.

Tarragona Port Authority will not accept responsibility for the use made of said data by reusing parties or agents, nor will it accept responsibility for any damages caused or economic losses suffered, as a result of the reuse of data.

Tarragona Port Authority does not guarantee the continuity of the availability of documents reused, neither in content nor in form, and does not accept responsibility for any error or omission in them.

Responsibility of the party reusing data

The reusing party or agent is subject to the law on reuse of public sector information, in particular the system of sanctions provided in article 11 of the Law 37/2007, of the 16^th of November, on reuse of public sector information.

Intellectual Property and Author’s Rights

In all cases, the acceptance of these Terms of Use does not suppose the concession of author’s rights nor intellectual property on groups of data.

Personal Data

Open data. PortTarragona does not show personal data, nor data which may identify specific individuals, as stipulated in the Organic Law 15/1999, of the 13^th of December, on Personal Data Protection.