{ "schema_version": "1.1.0", "generated_at": "2026-08-17T11:21:14Z", "human_page": "https://govoss-catalog.vercel.app/", "counts_note": "`entries` is the ACTIVE catalogue. /entries.json holds `rows_in_entries_json` rows, because a set-aside entry is flagged `excluded: true` with an `exclude_reason` rather than dropped \u2014 filter on `excluded` for the active catalogue. /v1/entries.json is an alias of /entries.json and carries the same rows. 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"count": 175 }, { "key": "citizen-services", "label": "Citizen Services & Participation", "count": 123 }, { "key": "finance-procurement", "label": "Finance, Procurement & Accounting", "count": 95 }, { "key": "hr-workforce", "label": "HR & Workforce", "count": 22 }, { "key": "crm-service", "label": "CRM & Service Desk", "count": 104 }, { "key": "dev-tools", "label": "Developer Tools & Platform", "count": 315 }, { "key": "infrastructure", "label": "Infrastructure & Operations", "count": 181 }, { "key": "integration", "label": "Integration, APIs & Data Exchange", "count": 82 }, { "key": "learning-knowledge", "label": "Learning & Knowledge", "count": 84 }, { "key": "health-social", "label": "Health & Social Care", "count": 11 }, { "key": "environment-transport", "label": "Environment, Energy & Transport", "count": 24 }, { "key": "office", "label": "Office & Productivity", "count": 95 }, { "key": "registers", "label": "Registers & Reference Data", "count": 16 } ], "countries": [ { "code": "FR", "count": 676 }, { "code": "DE", "count": 549 }, { "code": "IT", "count": 537 }, { "code": "GLOBAL", "count": 248 }, { "code": "DK", "count": 214 }, { "code": "BG", "count": 177 }, { "code": "NL", "count": 103 }, { "code": "BE", "count": 101 }, { "code": "CA", "count": 66 }, { "code": "TW", "count": 57 }, { "code": "FI", "count": 54 }, { "code": "SE", "count": 44 }, { "code": "PT", "count": 39 }, { "code": "EU", "count": 8 }, { "code": "IE", "count": 2 } ], "source_catalogues": [ { "key": "IT/developers-italia", "label": "Developers Italia", "country": "IT", "site": "https://developers.italia.it/en/software", "api": "https://api.developers.italia.it/v1/software", "route": "REST API", "claim": "built for public administration" }, { "key": "FR/sill", "label": "SILL", "country": "FR", "site": "https://code.gouv.fr/sill", "api": "https://code.gouv.fr/sill/api/sill.json", "route": "bulk JSON", "claim": "recommended to public agents" }, { "key": "FR/awesome-codegouvfr", "label": "awesome-codegouvfr", "country": "FR", "site": "https://code.gouv.fr/", "api": "https://code.gouv.fr/data/awesome-codegouvfr.json", "route": "bulk JSON", "claim": "curated French public-sector" }, { "key": "DE/openCode", "label": "openCode", "country": "DE", "site": "https://opencode.de/en/software", "api": "https://gitlab.opencode.de/api/v4/projects", "route": "GitLab API", "claim": "built for public administration" }, { "key": "DE/opensource.muenchen.de", "label": "Munich Open Source", "country": "DE", "site": "https://opensource.muenchen.de/software/", "api": "https://github.com/it-at-m/opensource.muenchen.de/tree/main/software", "route": "markdown files in git", "claim": "built or used by the City of Munich" }, { "key": "NL/code.overheid.nl", "label": "code.overheid.nl", "country": "NL", "site": "https://code.overheid.nl/", "api": "https://code.overheid.nl/api/v1/repos/search", "route": "Forgejo API", "claim": "published by Dutch government bodies" }, { "key": "BE/iMio", "label": "iMio", "country": "BE", "site": "https://www.imio.be/", "api": "https://api.github.com/orgs/IMIO/repos", "route": "GitHub org", "claim": "built by Walloon municipalities" }, { "key": "DK/os2", "label": "OS2 Denmark", "country": "DK", "site": "https://os2.eu/", "api": "https://api.github.com/orgs/OS2web/repos", "route": "GitHub orgs (20)", "claim": "built by Danish municipalities" }, { "key": "BG/governmentbg", "label": "e-Government Ministry", "country": "BG", "site": "https://github.com/governmentbg", "api": "https://api.github.com/orgs/governmentbg/repos", "route": "GitHub org", "claim": "built for the Bulgarian government" }, { "key": "SE/offentligkod", "label": "Offentligkod", "country": "SE", "site": "https://offentligkod.se/", "api": "https://gitlab.com/open-data-knowledge-sharing/katalogen", "route": "GNU recutils in git", "claim": "in use by Swedish public bodies" }, { "key": "FI/avoinkoodi", "label": "Avoinkoodi", "country": "FI", "site": "https://avoinkoodi.fi/", "api": "https://avoinkoodi.fi/projects.json", "route": "static JSON", "claim": "Finnish public-sector project" }, { "key": "CA/code.open.canada.ca", "label": "Open Resource Exchange", "country": "CA", "site": "https://code.open.canada.ca/en/index.html", "api": "https://code.open.canada.ca/code.json", "route": "code.json", "claim": "published by Canadian administrations" }, { "key": "PT/arte", "label": "ARTE Portugal", "country": "PT", "site": "https://github.com/amagovpt", "api": "https://api.github.com/orgs/amagovpt/repos", "route": "GitHub org", "claim": "built by Portugal's state technology agency" }, { "key": "IE/ogcio", "label": "OGCIO Ireland", "country": "IE", "site": "https://github.com/ogcio", "api": "https://api.github.com/orgs/ogcio/repos", "route": "GitHub org", "claim": "built by the Irish government CIO office" }, { "key": "TW/code.gov.tw", "label": "Public Code Platform (moda)", "country": "TW", "site": "https://code.gov.tw/", "api": "https://code.gov.tw/api/OpenDataSet/PublicProgramInfoData/json", "route": "official open-data export", "claim": "published by Taiwanese agencies" }, { "key": "GLOBAL/dpg", "label": "Digital Public Goods Registry", "country": "GLOBAL", "site": "https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/registry", "api": "https://app.digitalpublicgoods.net/api/dpgs", "route": "REST API", "claim": "vetted against the DPG Standard" }, { "key": "EU/code.europa.eu", "label": "code.europa.eu", "country": "EU", "site": "https://code.europa.eu/", "api": "https://code.europa.eu/api/v4/projects", "route": "GitLab API", "claim": "built by EU institutions" } ], "surveyed_not_ingested": [ { "country": "US", "flag": "\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8", "name": "code.gov", "url": "https://code.gov", "status": "retired", "detail": "302s to a Digital.gov policy page; api.code.gov returns the same HTML. The federal inventory that defined the code.json schema is gone. Its schema outlived it - Canada still uses it." }, { "country": "IN", "flag": "\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3", "name": "OpenForge", "url": "https://openforge.gov.in/", "status": "no-code", "detail": "Operational as a SERVICE but empty as a catalogue. Tuleap Community Edition 16.12 (current), CORS-open REST API, 1,502 active public projects with real names (DigiLocker toolkits, eGov SmartCity, EPrabandhan) - but ZERO accessible source code. /api/projects//git returns an empty repositories array for 40 of 40 sampled projects; frs_packages is empty; the file-release pages say \"empty\"; and 0 of 25 git plugin pages carry a clonable URL. Not auth-gated - there is simply nothing published. Adding it would inject 1,502 entries with no repository URL, which is both the dedupe identity and the whole promise of the catalogue. Re-check periodically: if code lands, this becomes the largest single source here." }, { "country": "KR", "flag": "\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7", "name": "oss.kr (Open Source Portal)", "url": "https://www.oss.kr/", "status": "wrong-shape", "detail": "Live and substantial, but it is a national OSS PROMOTION portal, not a catalogue of government-produced software: developer contests, a contribution academy, licence verification, Open Up centre, news. Its /opensource/hub/ pages profile UPSTREAM projects (Node.js and the like) rather than Korean public-sector code, with no adoption data. Closest analogue here is SILL's recommendation axis, minus the government-use signal that makes SILL worth having. Nothing to ingest without changing what the catalogue means." }, { "country": "BR", "flag": "\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7", "name": "Portal do Software Publico", "url": "https://www.softwarepublico.gov.br/", "status": "broken", "detail": "TLS certificate expired; /social/ 404s. Historically the most ambitious public software portal outside Europe - worth re-checking." }, { "country": "ES", "flag": "\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8", "name": "CTT", "url": "https://administracionelectronica.gob.es/ctt", "status": "bot-protected", "detail": "Centro de Transferencia de Tecnologia holds a real solutions directory, but every route is behind an F5/BIG-IP bot challenge (TSPD) that returns HTTP 200 with a CAPTCHA page instead of data - the HTML, the RSS feed and every /api/ path alike. Solving or bypassing a CAPTCHA is off the table, so this cannot be harvested as it stands. The legitimate route would be Spain asking to allowlist a harvester, or publishing the directory via datos.gob.es. Re-check rather than retry: the block is deliberate." }, { "country": "global", "flag": "\ud83c\udf10", "name": "State of Public Code / Software Heritage", "url": "https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/07/01/public_code_2026_launch/", "status": "different-shape", "detail": "288,411 repositories with at least one government-email contribution across all 193 UN member states. A measurement dataset, not a curated catalogue - it answers 'who contributes' rather than 'what can we adopt'. Useful as discovery input for finding catalogues we have missed." }, { "country": "CY", "flag": "\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfe", "name": "Cyprus - no code platform found", "url": "https://www.cyprus.gov.cy/", "status": "none-found", "detail": "Checked properly rather than left open. The Software Heritage domain registry has collected 634 responding Cyprus government domains and NONE is a code platform or forge; there is no Cyprus entry in its github-gov-orgs.csv; and its candidate list names only parliament.cy. Keyword matches for git/code/repo across the subdomain list are false positives (digitalcoalition, reportdruginfo). Cyprus appears simply not to publish government source code centrally. EGDI rank 38 of 193, so this is a genuine gap rather than a discovery failure." }, { "country": "EU facets", "flag": "\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa", "name": "remaining EU catalogue facets", "url": "https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/eu-oss-catalogue", "status": "unresolved", "detail": "Reading the EU catalogue's SOURCE FACET NAMES from the page HTML resolved two of the three unknowns: hosting_platform:ogcio is Ireland's OGCIO, and hosting_platform:arte is Portugal's ARTE state technology agency - NOT the Franco-German broadcaster, which is what it was first read as here. Both are now ingested. Still unidentified: hosting_platform:city_of_ghent (a Belgian municipality, likely a handful of repos) and hosting_platform:dmrid_dits (github.com/DMRID is an individual user with one repo, not a registry)." }, { "country": "DK/BG", "flag": "\u26a0", "name": "translation debt (OS2 + Bulgaria)", "url": "https://govoss-catalog.vercel.app/status.html", "status": "needs-research", "detail": "English coverage dropped from 100% to 91% when OS2 Denmark and Bulgaria were added: 265 strings remain untranslated (171 Bulgarian, 82 Danish, 12 other). Recorded rather than papered over - every entry still carries description_lang so a consumer can tell, and meta.json reports the real figure. The Bulgarian set is mostly long EU-funding project titles rather than software summaries, so it needs judgement about what is worth translating at all." }, { "country": "meta", "flag": "\ud83d\udcd6", "name": "OSOR \"OSS repositories\" list", "url": "https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/oss-repositories", "status": "discovery-source", "detail": "The best discovery resource found so far, and it should have been checked first: a hand-curated, server-rendered directory of ~29 public-sector OSS catalogues with owner, language and geographic coverage. Unlike the EU OSS Catalogue on the same portal, this page renders fine. It confirmed 6 sources already ingested and surfaced these NOT yet evaluated in depth: OS2 (os2.eu, Danish municipal community - the Denmark source never found by guessing), dev.egov.bg (Bulgaria's e-government dev portal), ICT ReUse Belgium, Helsingborg City (SE municipal), Adullact (FR, runs gitlab.adullact.net), Forja redIRIS (ES academic) and OW2. publiccode.directory is a dead domain." }, { "country": "MD", "flag": "\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde9", "name": "OpenCode Moldova", "url": "https://opencode.md/en/registry/", "status": "needs-research", "detail": "\"Registry of Open Source Solutions\" - a real national portal covering DPGs, open licences, approved git repositories and requirements for open source solutions. But it is WordPress with only stock post types (no custom solutions type in /wp-json/wp/v2/types) and the registry page contains zero repository links, so what is published looks like policy and guidance rather than a structured software list. Worth a closer read before writing off - it would be a new country." }, { "country": "ES", "flag": "\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8", "name": "Comptoir du Libre (crosswalk)", "url": "https://comptoir-du-libre.org/api/v1/softwares.json", "status": "ready", "detail": "Not a national catalogue but a CROSSWALK, and an open one: 780 entries in a single JSON with url_repository, wikidata, sill, cnll, framalibre and wikipedia ids on the same row. Would improve dedupe rather than add coverage - it maps SILL ids to Wikidata QIDs to repo URLs, which is exactly the identity resolution this catalogue does by hand." }, { "country": "n/a", "flag": "\u26a0", "name": "UNODC GlobE \"Directory of Open-Source Registries\"", "url": "https://globenetwork.unodc.org/globenetwork/en/directory-of-open-source-registries/index.html", "status": "false-lead", "detail": "NOT about open-source software. GlobE is UNODC's Global Operational Network of Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement Authorities, and \"open-source registries\" here means open-source INTELLIGENCE - publicly available official records such as company and beneficial-ownership registries. Its stated purpose: \"Information from open-source registries is useful for anti-corruption law enforcement authorities... collected by investigators and prosecutors without the need of a formal mutual legal assistance request.\" Recorded because it surfaced in a software-catalogue search and reads plausibly relevant from the title alone." }, { "country": "NL", "flag": "\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1", "name": "Dutch OSS register (api.developer.overheid.nl)", "url": "https://api.developer.overheid.nl/oss-register/v1", "status": "ready", "detail": "A real register, and the one source here that is blocked only by paperwork: every read returns 401 without an x-api-key, and a key has not been requested. Not urgent - the Dutch CODE PLATFORM at code.overheid.nl is harvested and needs no key, and is arguably the better source anyway (first-hand repositories rather than a register of pointers). Recorded here because it was previously visible only as a '0 records' warning on the status page; when that page merged into this one the warning had nowhere to live, and a known gap with no home is a gap that gets forgotten." } ], "sources": [ { "name": "FR/sill", "count": 667 }, { "name": "IT/developers-italia", "count": 537 }, { "name": "DE/openCode", "count": 412 }, { "name": "DK/os2", "count": 299 }, { "name": "GLOBAL/dpg", "count": 248 }, { "name": "BE/iMio", "count": 236 }, { "name": "BG/governmentbg", "count": 191 }, { "name": "SE/offentligkod", "count": 148 }, { "name": "DE/opensource.muenchen.de", "count": 141 }, { "name": "NL/code.overheid.nl", "count": 135 }, { "name": "PT/arte", "count": 89 }, { "name": "CA/code.open.canada.ca", "count": 67 }, { "name": "TW/code.gov.tw", "count": 57 }, { "name": "FI/avoinkoodi", "count": 54 }, { "name": "FR/awesome-codegouvfr", "count": 19 }, { "name": "EU/code.europa.eu", "count": 8 }, { "name": "IE/ogcio", "count": 5 } ], "licences_spdx": [ { "id": "EUPL-1.2", "count": 428 }, { "id": "MIT", "count": 342 }, { "id": "Apache-2.0", "count": 206 }, { "id": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "count": 172 }, { "id": "GPL-2.0", "count": 141 }, { "id": "GPL-3.0-or-later", "count": 85 }, { "id": "MPL-2.0", "count": 84 }, { "id": "GPL-3.0", "count": 83 }, { "id": "AGPL-3.0-only", "count": 83 }, { "id": "GPL-2.0-only", "count": 70 }, { "id": "AGPL-3.0", "count": 70 }, { "id": "GPL-3.0-only", "count": 59 }, { "id": "BSD-3-Clause", "count": 57 }, { "id": "NOASSERTION", "count": 39 }, { "id": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "count": 37 }, { "id": "GPL", "count": 30 }, { "id": "CC-BY-4.0", "count": 28 }, { "id": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "count": 24 }, { "id": "LGPL-3.0-only", "count": 19 }, { "id": "CC0-1.0", "count": 13 }, { "id": "LGPL-3.0", "count": 13 }, { "id": "LGPL", "count": 10 }, { "id": "0BSD", "count": 10 }, { "id": "BSD-2-Clause", "count": 9 }, { "id": "LGPL-3.0-or-later", "count": 8 }, { "id": "BSD", "count": 8 }, { "id": "GPL3", "count": 8 }, { "id": "GNU", "count": 7 }, { "id": "LGPL-2.0-only", "count": 6 }, { "id": "EUPL", "count": 6 }, { "id": "LGPL-2.1-only", "count": 5 }, { "id": "Apache", "count": 5 }, { "id": "CECILL-B", "count": 5 }, { "id": "EPL-2.0", "count": 4 }, { "id": "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0", "count": 4 }, { "id": "AGPL", "count": 4 }, { "id": "LGPL-2.0-or-later", "count": 4 }, { "id": "LGPL-2.1", "count": 4 }, { "id": "EPL", "count": 3 }, { "id": "agpl-3.0", "count": 3 }, { "id": "CPL-1.0", "count": 3 }, { "id": "EPL-1.0", "count": 3 }, { "id": "AGPL-1.0-or-later", "count": 3 }, { "id": "BSD-3-Clause-Clear", "count": 2 }, { "id": "EUPL-1.1", "count": 2 }, { "id": "CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0", "count": 2 }, { "id": "OdbL-1.0", "count": 2 }, { "id": "LGPL-2.1-or-later", "count": 2 }, { "id": "CECILL-2.1", "count": 2 }, { "id": "GPLv2+CPE", "count": 2 }, { "id": "PostgreSQL", "count": 2 }, { "id": "EUPL-1.2-or-later", "count": 2 }, { "id": "AGPL-3", "count": 2 }, { "id": "FREEWARE", "count": 1 }, { "id": "BSD-3", "count": 1 }, { "id": "GPLv3.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "NSP", "count": 1 }, { "id": "OSL-2.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "other", "count": 1 }, { "id": "PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "WTFPL", "count": 1 }, { "id": "AFL-1.1", "count": 1 }, { "id": "EUPL-v1.2", "count": 1 }, { "id": "OSL-3.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "MIT-0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "SSPL", "count": 1 }, { "id": "CC0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "LGPLv2", "count": 1 }, { "id": "LPPL", "count": 1 }, { "id": "LGPL-v2.1-only", "count": 1 }, { "id": "gpl-3.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "Artistic-2.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "Freemium", "count": 1 }, { "id": "CC-BY-SA-3.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "ODC-By-1.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "OLDAP-2.8", "count": 1 }, { "id": "ODbL", "count": 1 }, { "id": "Freeware", "count": 1 }, { "id": "LGPLv2.1", "count": 1 }, { "id": "Zlib", "count": 1 }, { "id": "OSL-1.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "XXXXXXXXX", "count": 1 }, { "id": "NPOSL-3.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "CPA", "count": 1 }, { "id": "X11", "count": 1 }, { "id": "CC-BY-NC-4.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "Ms-PL", "count": 1 }, { "id": "gnu", "count": 1 }, { "id": "EULA", "count": 1 }, { "id": "AFL-2.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "ISC", "count": 1 }, { "id": "GPL-3", "count": 1 }, { "id": "BSD-3.0", "count": 1 }, { "id": "Zimbra-1.3", "count": 1 } ], "replaces_disclaimer": "CURATED AND PARTIAL. Hand-seeded, not exhaustive, not authoritative. Absence of a mapping is NOT evidence that no replacement exists.", "confidence_values": { "strong": "like-for-like functional substitute for the common use case", "partial": "covers the main use case with real gaps", "adjacent": "same domain, different shape - needs a workflow change" }, "kind_values": { "software": "replaces the software itself", "service": "the paid item is a hosted SERVICE or CONTENT subscription; self-hosting this replaces the software but you still need hosting/content. Drupal does not replace hosting; Moodle does not produce training content.", "paid-tier": "the paid item is a commercial edition of software that is ALREADY open source. Usually the cheapest win in a procurement review - often no migration at all, just a licence you stop renewing." }, "files": { "entries": "/entries.json", "meta": "/meta.json", "by_product": "/by-product.json", "by_category": "/by-category/.json", "sources": "/sources.json", "status": "/status.json", "versioned": "/v1/entries.json" }, "known_gaps": { "note": "Absence is a finding: a category with no entries tells a European public-sector audience where the gaps in their own commons are.", "no_results_observed_for": [ "social media scheduling / management", "SMS / mass notification platforms", "mobile field data collection", "digital signage" ], "not_replaceable_by_software": [ "managed hosting (Pantheon, WP Engine) \u2014 a CMS does not replace hosting", "training content subscriptions (LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight, GO1) \u2014 an LMS does not produce course content" ], "unresolved_national_catalogues": [ "IE", "PT", "CY" ], "needs_api_key": [ "NL" ] }, "replaces_seed_orphans": [] }