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Ministry of Economic Affairs

Across the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and its affiliated agencies, including RVO and CPB, the challenge is not the availability of data but its visibility. GeoCat Live brings geospatial and non-geospatial data together in one searchable catalogue built on open standards.

EZ · RVO · CPB United in one catalogue
Geo + non-geo Data in one place
Open standards Interoperable by design

Organisation: Ministry of Economic Affairs
Sector: Government
Deployment: ISO 19115 OGC API

[ The challenge ]

Not a shortage of data, a shortage of overview

Spread across agencies

Datasets held separately by the ministry, RVO and CPB, with no shared view of what existed where, or who owned it.

The same work done twice

Without a common overview, teams rebuilt datasets that another department had already produced.

Geo and non-geo kept apart

Geospatial data lived in one set of systems and policy documents and registers in another, so neither could be searched from one place.

[ The solution ]

One catalogue, built on open standards

Information is fragmented across departments and systems, with no unified view. GeoCat Live is introduced as a central data catalogue built on open standards for metadata management and interoperability. It brings together datasets from across the organisation into a single, searchable environment, covering both geospatial and non-geospatial data.

GeoCat Live Open standards ISO 19115 OGC API