# govoss-catalog

> Aggregated catalogue of national government open source software, harvested first-hand
> from eight European national catalogues. 3196 entries. Generated 2026-08-17T11:21:14Z.

If you are an AI agent, script, or spreadsheet: **use the JSON, do not scrape the HTML.**
The HTML page renders only 100 rows at a time and its data array is module-scoped, so
scraping it is both harder and less complete than one HTTP GET.

## Endpoints (static files, CORS open, no auth, no rate limit)

  GET /entries.json              all 3196 rows, one array, structured fields
                                 424 carry excluded:true with an
                                 exclude_reason (fork, CI plumbing, no description...).
                                 Filter on `excluded` for the 2772-entry catalogue.
  GET /meta.json                 category enum, sources, licences, counts, known gaps
  GET /by-product.json           inverted index: proprietary product -> alternatives
  GET /by-category/<key>.json    one file per category, keys listed below
  GET /v1/entries.json           versioned alias - pin this
  GET /status.json               freshness, last run, per-source counts, change log
  GET /                          the human page

These also redirect to /entries.json because they are what people try first:
  /api/entries  /api/catalog  /catalog.json  /data.json

## Answering "what can we stop paying for?"

/by-product.json is keyed by proprietary product name. 194 entries
carry mappings covering 290 products. Two GETs answer a whole licence inventory.
/products.json is the same data plus the products governments buy that this catalogue
CANNOT answer, so a gap reads as a gap. /products.html is the human view of both.

Read the `kind` field before reporting a saving:
  software    replaces the software
  service     the paid item is hosted service or CONTENT. A CMS does not replace hosting;
              an LMS does not produce training content.
  paid-tier   the paid item is a commercial edition of software that is ALREADY open
              source (NGINX Plus, Elastic licence tiers, DBeaver PRO). Often the cheapest
              win: no migration, just a renewal you stop.

`confidence` is strong | partial | adjacent. Do not treat adjacent as a saving.
An empty array means NOT MAPPED, not "no European alternative exists".

## Honesty flags you should carry into anything you publish

  translated_from          ~74% of descriptions are MACHINE TRANSLATIONS from de/it/fr/fi/sv.
                           description_original holds the source wording.
  categories_inferred      true = category inferred by keyword rules, not declared upstream
  link_dead                repository URL confirmed gone over 2+ consecutive checks
  merged_from              how many catalogue records were merged into this entry
  licence_spdx             null where the upstream string was not a real SPDX id
                           ("GPLv3+", "MIT licence"). Use `licence` for the raw string.
  generated_at             build time. Harvest runs weekly; REDEPLOY IS MANUAL, so trust
                           generated_at over the deploy date.

## Categories (19)

  case-workflow          Case & Workflow Management         339
  documents              Documents & Records                270
  web-content            Content & Web Publishing           270
  collaboration          Collaboration & Communication      315
  data-analytics         Data, Analytics & Visualisation    572
  geospatial             Geospatial & Mapping               186
  identity-security      Identity, Access & Security        175
  citizen-services       Citizen Services & Participation   123
  finance-procurement    Finance, Procurement & Accounting  95
  hr-workforce           HR & Workforce                     22
  crm-service            CRM & Service Desk                 104
  dev-tools              Developer Tools & Platform         315
  infrastructure         Infrastructure & Operations        181
  integration            Integration, APIs & Data Exchange  82
  learning-knowledge     Learning & Knowledge               84
  health-social          Health & Social Care               11
  environment-transport  Environment, Energy & Transport    24
  office                 Office & Productivity              95
  registers              Registers & Reference Data         16

## Sources

  FR/sill                667
  IT/developers-italia   537
  DE/openCode            412
  DK/os2                 299
  GLOBAL/dpg             248
  BE/iMio                236
  BG/governmentbg        191
  SE/offentligkod        148
  DE/opensource.muenchen.de 141
  NL/code.overheid.nl    135
  PT/arte                89
  CA/code.open.canada.ca 67
  TW/code.gov.tw         57
  FI/avoinkoodi          54
  FR/awesome-codegouvfr  19
  EU/code.europa.eu      8
  IE/ogcio               5

## Known gaps

Absence is a finding. Categories where the European commons appears to have nothing:
  - social media scheduling / management
  - SMS / mass notification platforms
  - mobile field data collection
  - digital signage

Not replaceable by software at all:
  - managed hosting (Pantheon, WP Engine) — a CMS does not replace hosting
  - training content subscriptions (LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight, GO1) — an LMS does not produce course content

Unresolved national catalogues: IE, PT, CY
Pending an API key: NL

The EU's own aggregate catalogue is deliberately NOT a source: its pager, facets and
search all ignore query strings, so only 20 of its 1,084 solutions are reachable.