Ivan BegtinRU

About

I have worked in IT since 1999. I started as a Unix system administrator, then became a developer and led a data mining laboratory.

Since 2009 I have worked on government openness and open data, and since 2010 on data catalogs: from a community open data hub to an open registry of data catalogs of the whole world and the Dateno search engine built on top of it.

Another long-standing topic is digital preservation. Since 2009 I have archived government websites that close or change, and since 2017 Infoculture runs the National Digital Archive.

Expertise

  • Open data and open government
  • Data catalogs and dataset discovery
  • Data engineering and open-source data tools
  • Digital preservation and web archiving
  • Public spending and procurement data
  • Plain language in government texts

Career

  1. 2024–

    Founder and CTO

    Dateno

    A search engine for datasets built on the open registry of data catalogs.

  2. 2023–

    Creator of the registry of data catalogs

    Common Data Index, later dataportals-registry

  3. 2019–2021

    Head of the open data project area

    Accounts Chamber of Russia

    Led the team that built the public spending portal spending.gov.ru.

  4. 2017–

    Project lead

    National Digital Archive (Infoculture)

  5. 2012–

    Founder and director

    Infoculture NGO

  6. 2010–

    Co-founder

    Apps4Russia contest

  7. 2009–2015

    Founder

    OpenGovData.ru

    News and a knowledge base about open government data; archiving of government websites since 2009.

  8. 1999

    Unix system administrator, developer, head of a data mining lab

Short bio

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Ivan Begtin is the founder and CTO of Dateno, a search engine for datasets, the founder and director of the Infoculture NGO (Informational Culture) and a co-founder of Open Data Armenia. He has worked on open data and government transparency since 2009. In 2019–2021 he led the open data project area at the Accounts Chamber of Russia, where his team built the public spending portal spending.gov.ru. He maintains an open registry of more than 40,000 data catalogs worldwide, writes open-source tools for data engineering and digital preservation, and is the author of a book on data catalogs.

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