Open Data BCN
This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed below and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.
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Barcelona City Council's open-data service, launched in 2011, was one of Europe's earlier municipal open-data portals. It publishes hundreds of datasets — population, mobility, economy, environment and more — in reusable formats with an API. Rebuilt on CKAN software (with custom extensions for federation to Spanish and EU portals), it is a pillar of the city's data-commons and transparency policy.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Sources
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Open Data BCN” — Barcelona, Spain. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/barcelona-open-data-bcn/ (last verified 2026-07-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.