Abstract

Governments produce, disseminate, preserve and reuse information in order to carry out the public services entrusted to them. They make use of the so-called official publications to disseminate information about public policies. We use the term publications  in the sense that this word has attained in the digital era, that is, any digital resource online, including web pages from departments. The Spanish Administration provides two key elements of information about its publishing activity: the Catalogue of Publications of the General Administration of the State  and the Guide to official publishers. The organizational developments for preserving and reuse the valuable and extensive information of the Spanish Public Sector are still pending, but the current regulatory gaps are in the process of being resolved.

Abstract

In this article we analyze the organization of information in Spain’s Portal of the Transparency, which includes information that is required by law. We analyze both the organization of information and people who appear in the Portal. The analysis is then compared with the Law of transparency, access to public information, and good governance. The results show a high percentage of subjects that are not reporting the information as required by law. Contrarily, some sections, like economics, include an excess of information that makes their access complex.