Open Data Census/Hungary

http://hu.okfnpad.org/data-mapping

= Legislation =

Legislation is exempt from copyright in Hungarian law - but restrictions may be imposed on certain editions or published versions of legal texts


 * http://www.parlament.hu/internet/plsql/internet_irom
 * All in PDF - very scattered, many for one law
 * Would require a lot of scraping
 * final adopted legal texts are available from complex and some gov website i have to look up.
 * http://www.complex.hu/jr/gen/hjegy_doc.cgi?docid=A0900176.FVM
 * often HTML, sometimes poor quality images embedded in page
 * linked to from the government portal - paid for by the government
 * suggestion that copyright is asserted - though this may be dubious? (often no formal process for seeking permission)
 * http://www.magyarkozlony.hu/ Official Journal
 * everything is in PDF
 * search interface: https://kereses.magyarorszag.hu/jogszabalykereso (same database, different interface)

Court cases

 * http://www.birosag.hu/engine.aspx?page=Birosag_english
 * Search function - but doesn't work / not very good
 * Can download texts individually - but these are not labelled clearly
 * Can't cite URLs easily
 * Worth contacting to see if we can get database in bulk

Constitutional court
 * http://www.mkab.hu/index.php?id=hatarozatkereso

Local Government decrees: http://nrt.bm.hu/

Ombudspersons' statements, recommendations: www.obh.hu

Competition Office decisions: http://www.gvh.hu/gvh/alpha?do=2&st=1&pg=308&m470_doc=6976&m471_doc=6975&m469_act=3&m472_act=3


 * Parliamentary
 * blog http://ertunkvannak.hu/ - doesn't work anymore

http://irm.gov.hu/birosagi_hatarozatok/cikk/Birosagi_hatarozatok_adatbazisa.htm EU court decisions

= Spending =


 * farm subsidy: http://www.mvh.gov.hu/portal/MVHPortal/default/mainmenu/alkalmazasok/tamogataskereso/MVHTamkeresoPortletWindow?kereses=true&action=2&order=1&ev=b2009-2010&tamkereso_title=A+Bizottság+259%2F2008%2FEK+Rendelete+szerinti+közzététel+(kifizetések+2009.10.16+-+2010.10.15-ig)

https://emir.nfu.hu/kulso/jelek/index.php?view=list&menu=101 (statistics, reports) http://www.nfu.hu/content/58 (individual decisions)
 * allocation of EU co-financed transfers (Széchényi Plan, 2007-2013)

http://www.budapest.hu/engine.aspx?page=einf_gazd * Part 1: http://budapestportal.eu/utfelujitas/res/koltsegvetes2010_01.pdf * Part 2: http://budapestportal.eu/utfelujitas/res/koltsegvetes2010_02.pdf * Scanned PDF! * 2011 budget: http://www.budapest.hu/engine.aspx?page=tirhidden&command=showagendaitem&agendaitemid=76525 (different files, bit of chaos) Municipalities (villages, cities and 22 districts of Budapest)
 * Central budget
 * URL to budget template: http://www.kormany.hu/hu/nemzetgazdasagi-miniszterium/allamhaztartasert-felelos-allamtitkarsag/hirek/koltsegvetes
 * ministry of finance - budget chapter/2010: published in accordance of the 'glass pocket' regulation: http://www.kormany.hu/download/a/50/00000/PM_targyevi_ktsgvetes_2010.pdf#!
 * Budget as an act of the parliament: http://www.complex.hu/jr/gen/hjegy_doc.cgi?docid=A1000169.TV
 * Ministry of finance used to publish COFOG based data in PDF (Petra has 2005)
 * Budapest city budget (~2bn euros)
 * Central city budget is in a law
 * Can only get this in a PDF decree
 * Requested information - but very slow to respond
 * Note that the district municipalities dispose around half the amount of public spending in Budapest
 * e.g. 11th district: http://ujbuda.hu/page.php?template=koltsegvetesi_beszamolok_2011 (PDFs); municipal subsidies are in Excel: http://ujbuda.hu/tamogatasok.php?ev=2011
 * Limited tax powers
 * Most money comes from central government
 * Scanned PDF
 * Do we have an example?

County (19)
 * Each have separate budget


 * City example (Törökbálint)
 * 2011 budget http://www.torokbalint.hu/4dsoft/export/sites/default/Torokbalint/Rendelet/2011/Tren1104.pdf

Contracts and procurement
 * List of ITT and award of tenders: http://www.kozbeszerzes.hu//nid/KE01/lid/ertesito/pid/0/ertesitoProperties?objectID=friss
 * PDF
 * A sample document link ...

= Companies information =


 * Company Register http://www.e-cegjegyzek.hu/index.html
 * Basic info is free (address, registered activities, stakeholders)
 * More detailed is not
 * K-Monitor is talking with companies about
 * Legal situation: everyone is allowed to access

= Property register =

Property Register:


 * No public access
 * Have to go to physical location, identify yourself and state your purpose
 * takarnet: online property register service, targeted at lawyers, nonfree in both senses
 * demo version: http://www.takarnet.hu/demo/_fomenu.html
 * ..Link on govt portal for LIMITED property data, requires portal identification: https://kereses.magyarorszag.hu/ingatlankereso

= Parking fines =


 * Privatised
 * Litigation to get info but largely unsuccessful
 * Local gov would have income information

= Timetable =

.. Hungary (bus, balaton ship, flights malév, gysev rail): http://menetrendek.hu/
 * Rail: MÁV http://www.mav-start.hu/
 * Domestic Bus http://www.menetrendek.hu/cgi-bin/menetrend/html.cgi
 * Asserted copyright in their website
 * FOI case and the Commissioner deemed it public as related to public service
 * Acts on public transport: under this act transport company makes contract.
 * Budapest Transport (BKV): http://bkv.hu/hu/utazasi_informaciok
 * Someone recently got the data for their iphone app (scraped and then given by company) http://itunes.apple.com/app/id360445890
 * ACTION: can we ask them to release the data publicly?

= Kindergarten, School =


 * Run by local government (usually)
 * Want to know: where they are, whether there are free places
 * How many children are currently there, application process is really untransparent
 * Rate my kindergarten
 * E.g. like: http://www.schooloscope.com/
 * Or like playground search app for budapest (private semi-crowdsourced): http://jatszoterkereso.hu/

= Opening Hours =


 * Data on opening hours
 * http://www.nyitvatartas.hu/

= Post office =


 * http://posta.hu/ugyfelszolgalat/postakereso (search post office)

= Insurance (every kind like car, personal) =


 * Just one of plenty databases: http://www.netrisk.hu/

= Environmental data =

http://www.kvvm.gov.hu/olm/map.php?lang=en
 * "Basic environmental data" is public, and the manner in which the Meteorological Service has to provide it, is publishing it on their website: http://www.met.hu/doc/omsz_kozerdeku_adatok.pdf
 * Really basic data is here, also lot's of maps: http://www.met.hu/elorejelzesek/
 * Air pollution
 * Water quality
 * This data is available and probably in the public domain / freely reusable - but it scattered in lots of different locations. Could be an interesting project to crowdsource.
 * E.g. crowdsourced water price data in France: http://www.prixdeleau.fr/
 * Meteo

= Health =


 * Birth doctor fees - gratuity payments (illegal). Money being paid to doctors.
 * moved to an "offshore" domain: http://halapenz.cjb.net/
 * Mortality rates.
 * Performance data. Possible negative effects. E.g. interpretation of data.

= Crime =


 * Police have internal system called RobotZsaru (robocop)
 * Crime Maps (cf UK)

= Other notes =


 * Arcanum - http://www.arcanum.hu/
 * http://kwiw.addig.hu/front/api
 * wiki.okfn.org/OpenVisualisation
 * vis.okfn.org