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BA Data — Buenos Aires's Open Data Portal

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Every one of the 451 datasets is openly licensed. But the city's own guide says it always applies CC BY 4.0, and just 5 datasets do; the bulk sit on an Argentine port of a 2.5 licence.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?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 →
Run byDirección General de Gobernanza de Datos, Secretaría de Innovación y Transformación Digital (GCBA)
Scale🏙️ City-wide

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Decreto 156/2012 created data.buenosaires.gob.ar; Decreto 478/2013 made city data open by default, though its only mention of a free licence sits in the recitals rather than the binding articles. A CKAN catalogue query on 26 July 2026 returned 451 datasets and not one unlicensed: 386 under an Argentine port of Creative Commons Attribution 2.5, 60 under an unversioned CC BY, and 5 under the CC BY 4.0 that the city's own publication guide says it always applies. 416 of the 451 had been touched within the previous twelve months. The city's audit office reported in 2022 that many datasets had nonetheless passed their declared refresh deadline, and that publication still depended on negotiating access department by department.

Live 📅 since 2012

📊 Impact

451 datasets, every one licensed and all under Creative Commons Attribution terms: 386 CC BY 2.5 Argentina, 60 unversioned CC BY, 5 CC BY 4.0 (sum exact). 416 of 451 updated within the previous twelve months — portal API, 26 July 2026. A repeat call on 5 October 2026 returned 455 datasets (386 / 64 / 5), still none unlicensed, with 387 modified in the previous twelve months.

🎓 Lesson

A licence rule written into an operational guide instead of a decree's binding articles drifts quietly: everything here is openly licensed, but only five datasets carry the version the guide says is always applied.

📡 Data & IoTOpen dataDigital government

Sources

↗ BA Data — CKAN package_search, licence facetOwn call, 26 July 2026. result.count = 451; search_facets.license_id.items = CC-BY-2.5-AR 386, cc-by 60, CC-BY-4.0 5 — summing to exactly 451, so no dataset carries an empty or 'notspecified' licence. A separate /api/3/action/license_list call returned only CKAN's stock registry, so the ids CC-BY-2.5-AR and CC-BY-4.0 are local additions to this instance.
↗ BA Data — CKAN package_search, twelve-month currencyOwn call, 26 July 2026: result.count = 416, i.e. 92% of the 451-dataset catalogue had metadata modified within twelve months. This is a weaker test than the audit's — a dataset declaring daily updates but last touched six months ago passes here and fails there.
↗ GCBA — Guía para la publicación de datos en formatos abiertosSection 'Licencia de utilización de datos' states verbatim: 'se aplicarán siempre Licencia Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) para todos sus contenidos digitales.' The same page's footer reads 'Los contenidos de buenosaires.gob.ar están licenciados bajo Creative Commons Reconocimiento 2.5 Argentina License' — the contradiction is inside the city's own document, and the catalogue follows the footer. The guide sets no universal refresh cadence: 'La actualización de los conjuntos de datos se realiza conforme a la frecuencia establecida en cada dataset.'
↗ GCBA — Política de Datos Abiertos (Estrategia de Apertura de Datos)Supports the lineage: Decreto 156/2012 created data.buenosaires.gob.ar 'para facilitar la búsqueda, descubrimiento y acceso' to public-sector datasets; Decreto 478/2013 established open by default. Also cites Ley 104 (access to public information, reformed by Ley 5784/2016) making open format a criterion, and Ley 1845 on personal data as the limit.
↗ Boletín Oficial CABA — Decreto 478/2013Published 11 December 2013The decisive check for the licence question. Art. 1 commands publication of 'todos los datos producidos, almacenados y/o recolectados en medios digitales... cuya publicidad no se encuentre excluida por normas específicas'; art. 2 requires each ministry to file an Open Data Plan. No operative article names a licence — the phrase 'bajo licencia libre' appears only in the CONSIDERANDO, which does not bind. I did not obtain the full text of Decreto 156/2012.
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↗ El Auditor — ¿Cómo funciona Buenos Aires Data? (AGCBA audit)Published 16 December 2022Independent counterweight. Auditoría General de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, report dated 18 October 2022, covering the portal under the DG de Calidad Institucional y Gobierno Abierto and the DG de Arquitectura de Datos. Found a large share of datasets past their declared update-frequency deadline and data 'desactualizados, con errores y omisiones en la información'; that publication requires 'acuerdos de apertura de datos entre la repartición y las áreas encargadas de la publicación' rather than automatic flows; and that most technical staff worked under service contracts, where 'la falta de formalización en la relación laboral de los agentes podría generar inestabilidad'.
↗ GCBA — Dirección General de Gobernanza de DatosEstablishes today's operator: the DG de Gobernanza de Datos, under the Subsecretaría de Innovación Administrativa of the Secretaría de Innovación y Transformación Digital, maintains and administers the BA Data portal and vets datasets for publication. A 2025 end-of-tenure report for the directorate appears in the Boletín Oficial (PE-RES-MJGGC-381-25), confirming the body still existed under the current administration.
Show your work What this page rests on and what it can’t tell you · all 12 claims with their sources · the forensic record

Evidence file · public beta 12 addressable claims, 7 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The file is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

Inspect the claims, one by one — verbatim text, sources and caveats for all 12

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-1a7812ca9ab6a625 quantitative
Decreto 156/2012 created data.buenosaires.gob.ar
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
'Mediante el Decreto N° 156/2012 se implementó el sitio data.buenosaires.gob.ar como plataforma para facilitar la búsqueda, descubrimiento y acceso' to public-sector datasets.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GCBA — Política de Datos Abiertos (Estrategia de Apertura de Datos)
Claim 2 clm-90f8e3566513e283 quantitative
Decreto 478/2013 made city data open by default
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
Art. 1 of the decree: 'Establécese que todos los datos producidos, almacenados y/o recolectados en medios digitales' by the city administration are to be published unless specifically excluded.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Boletín Oficial CABA — Decreto 478/2013
  2. GCBA — Política de Datos Abiertos (Estrategia de Apertura de Datos)
Claim 3 clm-358e79af93de5661 descriptive
its only mention of a free licence sits in the recitals rather than the binding articles
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The phrase 'bajo licencia libre' appears in the considerando (the 'Que …' recitals); the operative articles that follow 'DECRETA' name no licence.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Boletín Oficial CABA — Decreto 478/2013
Claim 4 clm-1ca0f3733b274c68 quantitative
A CKAN catalogue query on 26 July 2026 returned 451 datasets and not one unlicensed: 386 under an Argentine port of Creative Commons Attribution 2.5, 60 under an unversioned CC BY, and 5 under the CC BY 4.0
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The licence-facet call made on 26 July 2026 returned result.count 451 with CC-BY-2.5-AR 386, cc-by 60 and CC-BY-4.0 5, summing exactly to the total.
Caveat
A live query: on 5 October 2026 the same call returned 455 datasets (386 / 64 / 5), still none unlicensed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. BA Data — CKAN package_search, licence facet
Claim 5 clm-51c7ca7d12db0eca descriptive
that the city's own publication guide says it always applies
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The guide: 'se aplicarán siempre Licencia Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) para todos sus contenidos digitales.' Its own footer, however, licenses the site under CC Reconocimiento 2.5 Argentina.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GCBA — Guía para la publicación de datos en formatos abiertos
Claim 6 clm-ba9fd648a3043756 quantitative
416 of the 451 had been touched within the previous twelve months
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The metadata_modified query run on 26 July 2026 (window from 26 July 2025) returned 416.
Caveat
Metadata modification is a weaker test than the declared refresh frequency the city's audit office used. On 5 October 2026, 387 of 455 had been modified in the preceding twelve months.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. BA Data — CKAN package_search, twelve-month currency
Claim 7 clm-d5ed9d797bb8d9f2 quantitative
The city's audit office reported in 2022 that many datasets had nonetheless passed their declared refresh deadline
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
El Auditor (16 Dec 2022) on the AGCBA report: 'el organismo de control halló que gran cantidad de los datasets tenían el plazo de la frecuencia de actualización vencido', and some data were 'desactualizados, con errores y omisiones'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Auditor — ¿Cómo funciona Buenos Aires Data? (AGCBA audit)
Claim 8 clm-f530a4425eea3559 descriptive
publication still depended on negotiating access department by department
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
Quoting the report: to reach the data 'es necesario lograr acuerdos de apertura de datos entre la repartición y las áreas encargadas de la publicación de la información pública en el portal'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Auditor — ¿Cómo funciona Buenos Aires Data? (AGCBA audit)
Claim 9 clm-95ecc81456bd0077 quantitative
451 datasets, every one licensed and all under Creative Commons Attribution terms: 386 CC BY 2.5 Argentina, 60 unversioned CC BY, 5 CC BY 4.0 (sum exact). 416 of 451 updated within the previous twelve months — portal API, 26 July 2026.
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
Licence facet and metadata_modified queries on 26 July 2026: 451 total; 386 / 60 / 5 by licence; 416 modified since 26 July 2025.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. BA Data — CKAN package_search, licence facet
  2. BA Data — CKAN package_search, twelve-month currency
Claim 10 clm-72cdb3d520f77a95 quantitative
A repeat call on 5 October 2026 returned 455 datasets (386 / 64 / 5), still none unlicensed, with 387 modified in the previous twelve months.
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The licence-facet call on 5 October 2026 returned count 455 with CC-BY-2.5-AR 386, cc-by 64, CC-BY-4.0 5; a metadata_modified query for the window from 5 October 2025 returned 387.
Caveat
The twelve-month figure comes from the same API with the window moved to 5 October 2025; the listed currency URL keeps its July 2025 start date.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. BA Data — CKAN package_search, licence facet
  2. BA Data — CKAN package_search, twelve-month currency
Claim 11 clm-145633a6c4d32f4c descriptive
A licence rule written into an operational guide instead of a decree's binding articles drifts quietly
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The decree's operative articles name no licence (only the recitals say 'bajo licencia libre'); the licence rule — CC BY 4.0 'siempre' — lives in the publication guide.
Caveat
'Drifts quietly' is our reading of the gap between the guide and the catalogue.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Boletín Oficial CABA — Decreto 478/2013
  2. GCBA — Guía para la publicación de datos en formatos abiertos
Claim 12 clm-04869820fface4c0 descriptive
everything here is openly licensed, but only five datasets carry the version the guide says is always applied
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The licence facet shows every dataset under a CC BY variant, with CC-BY-4.0 on 5; the guide says CC BY 4.0 is always applied.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. BA Data — CKAN package_search, licence facet
  2. GCBA — Guía para la publicación de datos en formatos abiertos
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Dirección General de Gobernanza de Datos, Secretaría de Innovación y Transformación Digital (GCBA)
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
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Cost
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Ownership
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Decision rights
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7 source dossiers

BA Data — CKAN package_search, licence facet data.buenosaires.gob.ar · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-00000718eb26e26b
Publisher
Name not classified · data.buenosaires.gob.ar
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-05
Dossier created
2026-10-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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Locator
Open the recorded source note

Own call, 26 July 2026. result.count = 451; search_facets.license_id.items = CC-BY-2.5-AR 386, cc-by 60, CC-BY-4.0 5 — summing to exactly 451, so no dataset carries an empty or 'notspecified' licence. A separate /api/3/action/license_list call returned only CKAN's stock registry, so the ids CC-BY-2.5-AR and CC-BY-4.0 are local additions to this instance.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
BA Data — CKAN package_search, twelve-month currency data.buenosaires.gob.ar · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-5d9da9c46a9ae186
Publisher
Name not classified · data.buenosaires.gob.ar
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-05
Dossier created
2026-10-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Own call, 26 July 2026: result.count = 416, i.e. 92% of the 451-dataset catalogue had metadata modified within twelve months. This is a weaker test than the audit's — a dataset declaring daily updates but last touched six months ago passes here and fails there.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
GCBA — Guía para la publicación de datos en formatos abiertos datosgcba.github.io · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-8f14bb60e25fe8b4
Publisher
Name not classified · datosgcba.github.io
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-05
Dossier created
2026-10-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Section 'Licencia de utilización de datos' states verbatim: 'se aplicarán siempre Licencia Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) para todos sus contenidos digitales.' The same page's footer reads 'Los contenidos de buenosaires.gob.ar están licenciados bajo Creative Commons Reconocimiento 2.5 Argentina License' — the contradiction is inside the city's own document, and the catalogue follows the footer. The guide sets no universal refresh cadence: 'La actualización de los conjuntos de datos se realiza conforme a la frecuencia establecida en cada dataset.'

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
GCBA — Política de Datos Abiertos (Estrategia de Apertura de Datos) datosgcba.github.io · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-b6e5dbecc0afdf20
Publisher
Name not classified · datosgcba.github.io
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-05
Dossier created
2026-10-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Supports the lineage: Decreto 156/2012 created data.buenosaires.gob.ar 'para facilitar la búsqueda, descubrimiento y acceso' to public-sector datasets; Decreto 478/2013 established open by default. Also cites Ley 104 (access to public information, reformed by Ley 5784/2016) making open format a criterion, and Ley 1845 on personal data as the limit.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Boletín Oficial CABA — Decreto 478/2013 boletinoficial.buenosaires.gob.ar · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-ede7a8c40aad6f5a
Publisher
Name not classified · boletinoficial.buenosaires.gob.ar
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2013-12-11
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-05
Dossier created
2026-10-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The decisive check for the licence question. Art. 1 commands publication of 'todos los datos producidos, almacenados y/o recolectados en medios digitales... cuya publicidad no se encuentre excluida por normas específicas'; art. 2 requires each ministry to file an Open Data Plan. No operative article names a licence — the phrase 'bajo licencia libre' appears only in the CONSIDERANDO, which does not bind. I did not obtain the full text of Decreto 156/2012.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
El Auditor — ¿Cómo funciona Buenos Aires Data? (AGCBA audit) elauditor.info · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-817f7a85de18d868
Publisher
Name not classified · elauditor.info
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-12-16
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-05
Dossier created
2026-10-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Independent counterweight. Auditoría General de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, report dated 18 October 2022, covering the portal under the DG de Calidad Institucional y Gobierno Abierto and the DG de Arquitectura de Datos. Found a large share of datasets past their declared update-frequency deadline and data 'desactualizados, con errores y omisiones en la información'; that publication requires 'acuerdos de apertura de datos entre la repartición y las áreas encargadas de la publicación' rather than automatic flows; and that most technical staff worked under service contracts, where 'la falta de formalización en la relación laboral de los agentes podría generar inestabilidad'.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
GCBA — Dirección General de Gobernanza de Datos buenosaires.gob.ar · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-4dc6c746bab57529
Publisher
Name not classified · buenosaires.gob.ar
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-05
Dossier created
2026-10-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Establishes today's operator: the DG de Gobernanza de Datos, under the Subsecretaría de Innovación Administrativa of the Secretaría de Innovación y Transformación Digital, maintains and administers the BA Data portal and vets datasets for publication. A 2025 end-of-tenure report for the directorate appears in the Boletín Oficial (PE-RES-MJGGC-381-25), confirming the body still existed under the current administration.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Known limits of this file
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “BA Data — Buenos Aires's Open Data Portal” — Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/buenos-aires-open-data/ (last verified 2026-10-05). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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