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Dresden Open Data Portal (opendata.dresden.de)

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Dresden publishes more than 1,100 open datasets and ranked third among Germany's 20 largest cities for it. No published source says what the data has changed.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
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 byLandeshauptstadt Dresden; the TU Dresden research project on the portal works with the city's Municipal Statistics Office
Scale🏙️ City-wide
CostOpen Data project 2023–2026: 1.1 million euros project budget
FundingRun by the city administration; further development 2023–2026 within the federally funded Smart City Dresden model project.

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,237 documented projects · 🏙️ 8 more in Dresden · 📊 Open data guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects

Dresden's open data portal at opendata.dresden.de has run since 2019, implementing a city council resolution of 3 September 2015 that asked for municipal data to be made available to citizens, businesses and start-ups. The city says more than 1,100 datasets can be used by anyone, commercially too, provided the licence named on the portal is credited. The national portal GovData lists 872 datasets under the publisher Stadt Dresden; all but three carry the Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung 2.0, and the three exceptions, satellite images from 1965 and 1975 and a historical weather series, are marked closed. Since 2023 a 1.1 million euro project in the Smart City Dresden model programme has been adding a chatbot, an app portal and a feedback channel.

Live 📅 since 2019

🎓 Lesson

The measurements of this portal that exist count it. A February 2025 comparison by the consultancy Finatycs placed Dresden third among the 20 largest German cities by number of datasets, behind Hamburg and Berlin, and the EU project MAtchUP tracked the catalogue growing from 893 to 1028 open datasets during its monitoring. Neither says what anyone did with the data. The city's own next step was to fund use rather than volume, and its research partner TU Dresden found that enjoying working with data is a strong motivation for the people who use the portal. A dataset count is the easy number for an open-data programme; the one it still has to publish is which decisions, services or businesses rest on the data.

📡 Data & IoTOpen dataDigital governmentCitizen participation

Sources

↗ Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Open Data (dresden.de)The city's page on open data: more than 1,100 datasets free for anyone to use, the portal implementing a city council resolution of 3 September 2015, machine-readable formats, commercial and non-commercial use allowed provided the licence named on the portal is credited.
↗ Smart City Dresden — Open Data project page (2023–2026)The city's Smart City project page: the portal has run since 2019 as part of the urban platform; a 2023–2026 project with a 1.1 million euro budget adds a digital assistant and feedback channel, an Open Data App Portal and an Open Data Chatbot.
↗ Smart City Dresden — Transparency through open data: Dresden comes third (21 Feb 2025)City press release on a comparison of the 20 largest German cities by the consultancy Finatycs, reported in Kommune21: Hamburg 8,239 datasets, Berlin 3,171, Dresden 1,117. It says the portal was launched in 2019 following a city council resolution.
↗ TU Dresden — “Administrative data is fun”: research project on why people use the Dresden Open Data Portal (12 Sep 2025)University news on a questionnaire-based survey of portal users and non-users, run within the Smart City model project with the Dresden Municipal Statistics Office: enjoying working with data is a strong motivation for users; transparency and awareness matter to non-users.
↗ GovData — CKAN API query: datasets with publisher Stadt Dresden (queried 6 Nov 2026)A live query of the national open data portal GovData for datasets whose publisher is Stadt Dresden (harvested via Saxony). On 6 November 2026 it returned 872 datasets; three carried a closed licence (Satellitenbilder 1965, Satellitenbilder 1975 and daily weather data from Dresden-Klotzsche since 1934), the rest the Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung 2.0.
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↗ MAtchUP — D5.5 Technical evaluation (29 Sep 2023)The MAtchUP consortium's technical evaluation. For Dresden it records 893 open datasets in the city's portal before the project and 1028 after the two-year monitoring period, and notes that the portal was in place before the evaluation's baseline.

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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2019. 3 of 6 sources carry a publication date, from 29 September 2023 to 12 September 2025.

When the sources were published

  1. MAtchUP consortium (Horizon 2020) · researchMAtchUP — D5.5 Technical evaluation (29 Sep 2023)
  2. Landeshauptstadt Dresden · city governmentSmart City Dresden — Transparency through open data: Dresden comes third (21 Feb 2025)
  3. Technische Universität Dresden · researchTU Dresden — “Administrative data is fun”: research project on why people use the Dresden Open Data Portal (12 Sep 2025)

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Evidence file · public beta 14 addressable claims, 6 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.

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Claim 2 clm-080fd6488579aaae quantitative
implementing a city council resolution of 3 September 2015
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What the mapping says
The city says the portal implements a city council resolution of 3 September 2015.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Open Data (dresden.de)
Claim 3 clm-b448956715931e4b descriptive
that asked for municipal data to be made available to citizens, businesses and start-ups
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What the mapping says
According to the city, the resolution provides for making municipal data available to interested citizens, businesses and start-ups.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Open Data (dresden.de)
Claim 4 clm-07eee34a51d657b7 quantitative
more than 1,100 datasets can be used by anyone
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city states that more than 1,100 of its datasets can be freely used by anyone.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Open Data (dresden.de)
Claim 5 clm-c7705f0bb2eb986b descriptive
commercially too, provided the licence named on the portal is credited
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snippet · verbatim
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What the mapping says
The city says use is free of charge, commercial and non-commercial use are both allowed, and the condition is stating the licence terms named on the portal.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Open Data (dresden.de)
Claim 6 clm-2efd9a04870b6d9d quantitative
The national portal GovData lists 872 datasets under the publisher Stadt Dresden
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The GovData search for the publisher Stadt Dresden returned a count of 872 datasets on 6 November 2026; this is the set harvested through Saxony's portal, not necessarily the city's whole catalogue.
Caveat
GovData lists fewer datasets than the city's own figure of more than 1,100; the two catalogues are not identical.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GovData — CKAN API query: datasets with publisher Stadt Dresden (queried 6 Nov 2026)
Claim 7 clm-14456093276aeae6 quantitative
all but three carry the Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung 2.0
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
In the API response every dataset's resources carry the licence http://dcat-ap.de/def/licenses/dl-by-de/2.0 except three, whose resources carry http://dcat-ap.de/def/licenses/other-closed. The licence string repeats across hundreds of records, so no unique locator exists; the result comes from reading every record of the response.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GovData — CKAN API query: datasets with publisher Stadt Dresden (queried 6 Nov 2026)
Claim 8 clm-9075c8693441ce6d quantitative
satellite images from 1965 and 1975 and a historical weather series, are marked closed
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The three closed-licence records are 'Satellitenbilder 1965', 'Satellitenbilder 1975' and daily weather data from Dresden-Klotzsche since 1934.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GovData — CKAN API query: datasets with publisher Stadt Dresden (queried 6 Nov 2026)
Claim 9 clm-7b4e9506433b3730 quantitative
Since 2023 a 1.1 million euro project in the Smart City Dresden model programme
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The project page gives the Open Data project a duration of 2023–2026 and a project budget of 1.1 million euros.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart City Dresden — Open Data project page (2023–2026)
Claim 10 clm-da8f595d647e1524 descriptive
adding a chatbot, an app portal and a feedback channel
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The page describes three tools: a digital assistant with a feedback channel, an Open Data App Portal collecting applications built on the city's data, and an Open Data Chatbot.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart City Dresden — Open Data project page (2023–2026)
Claim 11 clm-efe2d5d5da779685 quantitative
A February 2025 comparison by the consultancy Finatycs placed Dresden third among the 20 largest German cities by number of datasets, behind Hamburg and Berlin
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city press release reports the Finatycs comparison of the 20 largest German cities: Hamburg 8,239 datasets, Berlin 3,171, Dresden 1,117; TU Dresden dates the analysis to February 2025.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart City Dresden — Transparency through open data: Dresden comes third (21 Feb 2025)
  2. TU Dresden — “Administrative data is fun”: research project on why people use the Dresden Open Data Portal (12 Sep 2025)
Claim 12 clm-858fd27f38ddee7a quantitative
the EU project MAtchUP tracked the catalogue growing from 893 to 1028 open datasets during its monitoring
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The evaluation says there were 893 open datasets in the portal before MAtchUP and the number steadily rose to 1028 over the two-year monitoring period.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. MAtchUP — D5.5 Technical evaluation (29 Sep 2023)
Claim 13 clm-ffa24c623de6ae70 descriptive
its research partner TU Dresden found that enjoying working with data is a strong motivation for the people who use the portal
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The university reports the survey result that enjoying working with data is a strong motivation for Dresden residents to use the portal.
Caveat
The survey ran within the city's own model project, in cooperation with its Municipal Statistics Office.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TU Dresden — “Administrative data is fun”: research project on why people use the Dresden Open Data Portal (12 Sep 2025)
Claim 14 clm-3f5addbd3a309244 descriptive
The city's own next step was to fund use rather than volume
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The project page says the aim is to better harness the benefits of open data and, beyond making data available, to actively promote it and facilitate its use.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart City Dresden — Open Data project page (2023–2026)
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.

unreviewed Revision 2026-11-06-baseline effective 2026-11-06 · created 2026-11-06

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Landeshauptstadt Dresden; the TU Dresden research project on the portal works with the city's Municipal Statistics Office
Actor types
city-government, research
Funding model
public
Funding description
Run by the city administration; further development 2023–2026 within the federally funded Smart City Dresden model project.
Cost
Open Data project 2023–2026: 1.1 million euros project budget
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
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Exit conditions
Not recorded

6 source dossiers

Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Open Data (dresden.de) dresden.de · 4 linked claims

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src-d1a9888d4c3512ea
Publisher
Name not classified · dresden.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
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Updated
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
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No local capture recorded
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Locator
Open the recorded source note

The city's page on open data: more than 1,100 datasets free for anyone to use, the portal implementing a city council resolution of 3 September 2015, machine-readable formats, commercial and non-commercial use allowed provided the licence named on the portal is credited.

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Claims linked
Smart City Dresden — Open Data project page (2023–2026) smartcity.dresden.de · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-2acd8c4dbf11806e
Publisher
Name not classified · smartcity.dresden.de
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
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The city's Smart City project page: the portal has run since 2019 as part of the urban platform; a 2023–2026 project with a 1.1 million euro budget adds a digital assistant and feedback channel, an Open Data App Portal and an Open Data Chatbot.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Smart City Dresden — Transparency through open data: Dresden comes third (21 Feb 2025) smartcity.dresden.de · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-150a60da4181bf8c
Publisher
Name not classified · smartcity.dresden.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-02-21
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

City press release on a comparison of the 20 largest German cities by the consultancy Finatycs, reported in Kommune21: Hamburg 8,239 datasets, Berlin 3,171, Dresden 1,117. It says the portal was launched in 2019 following a city council resolution.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
TU Dresden — “Administrative data is fun”: research project on why people use the Dresden Open Data Portal (12 Sep 2025) tu-dresden.de · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-efc4826a0aa52288
Publisher
Name not classified · tu-dresden.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-09-12
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

University news on a questionnaire-based survey of portal users and non-users, run within the Smart City model project with the Dresden Municipal Statistics Office: enjoying working with data is a strong motivation for users; transparency and awareness matter to non-users.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
GovData — CKAN API query: datasets with publisher Stadt Dresden (queried 6 Nov 2026) ckan.govdata.de · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-96c11399f33f4cf8
Publisher
Name not classified · ckan.govdata.de
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
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Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

A live query of the national open data portal GovData for datasets whose publisher is Stadt Dresden (harvested via Saxony). On 6 November 2026 it returned 872 datasets; three carried a closed licence (Satellitenbilder 1965, Satellitenbilder 1975 and daily weather data from Dresden-Klotzsche since 1934), the rest the Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung 2.0.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
MAtchUP — D5.5 Technical evaluation (29 Sep 2023) ec.europa.eu · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-0fb4e40a3a194bb5
Publisher
Name not classified · ec.europa.eu
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-09-29
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-06
Dossier created
2026-11-06
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The MAtchUP consortium's technical evaluation. For Dresden it records 893 open datasets in the city's portal before the project and 1028 after the two-year monitoring period, and notes that the portal was in place before the evaluation's baseline.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
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). “Dresden Open Data Portal (opendata.dresden.de)” — Dresden, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/dresden-open-data/ (last verified 2026-11-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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