Data infrastructures and responsibilities of public authorities in Germany are still very heterogeneous. eGovernment initiatives to enhance technical and semantical interoperability between different data and information providers exist in some fields though, on the whole, public and private information systems for ...

Granting access to governmental data has become a matter of public interest since long. There are national and international regulations like the German environmental information act (UIG) or the European infrastructure for spatial information (INSPIRE). Both encourage governmental institutions to make information available ...