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Data Catalogs

How open data portals, geoportals and repositories work, and how to choose your own

A book about public data catalogs: open data portals, geoportals, research repositories, statistics catalogs and machine learning dataset hubs. It explains what kinds of catalogs exist and what they can do, how to choose features and a platform and justify the choice, and how to publish data, with or without a portal. The numbers in the book come from an open registry of more than 43,000 catalogs.

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Contents

  1. What a data catalog is
  2. What data gets published
  3. Types of catalogs
  4. Catalog capabilities
  5. Platforms and extensions
  6. How to choose a catalog
  7. How data is published
  8. Publishing without a portal
  9. Practices
  10. Catalog quality
  11. Trends
  12. Appendices

How to cite

Begtin, I. (2026). Data Catalogs: How open data portals, geoportals and repositories work, and how to choose your own (October 2026 ed.). In Russian. https://datacatalogs.begtin.tech/

@book{begtin2026datacatalogs,
  author = {Begtin, Ivan},
  title = {Data Catalogs: How open data portals, geoportals and repositories work, and how to choose your own},
  year = {2026},
  edition = {October 2026},
  url = {https://datacatalogs.begtin.tech/},
  language = {russian},
  note = {In Russian. CC BY 4.0}
}