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| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | No | The Austrian Copyright Law states that official decisions and releases are in the public domain (§7, https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10001848). However, it is not clear if all budget related documents would be covered by this provision. The Ministry of Finance's website carries a copyright mark and specifies that republication of its content is permitted for non-commercial purposes only (https://www.bmf.gv.at/services/impressum/impressum.html) |
| In an open and machine-readable format | PDF only, some less granular data is available in XLSX | |
| Downloadable at once | No | Detailed budget documents and the most detailed budget data are only available in PDF files for each federal ministry/entity, these are a total of at least 58 seperate PDF files. Various tables relating to the budget, containing higher-level data (such as the budget for departments but not for sub-departments – at least I couldn't find it) are available for download in XLSX format |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Data is updated annually, in early December 2016, the data for 2017 was available |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | Information is freely available, no payment, registration or login required |
| findable | 4 | The Ministry of Finance has a prominent link to the "Budget" section in the main navigation menu on its frontpage |
| findable_steps | Went to the Website of the Ministry of Finance, there is a prominent link to "Budget" in the main navigation menu on the homepage, go to the section "Das Budget" ("the budget") then click on "Budgetentwurf 2017" (draft budget 2017). Second route: Googled: Budget Österreich 2017, the top four non-paid results were the website of the Ministry of Finance. | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | Effort is required for use of XLSX-Data, because tables provided in dozens of different worksheets. Extensive effort is provided to free data from PDF reports. |
| collector_name | Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance | The Ministry of Finance (BMF) creates, manages and releases budget documents and submits documents related to the draft budget to the Austrian Parliament, which also has a team analyzing budget related issues (https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/BUDG/) |
| characteristics | Budget per government department, Budget per sub-department, Descriptions for budget sections | Detailed PDF reports for each Ministry and Federal entity are available at https://service.bmf.gv.at/Budget/Budgets/2017/bfg/teilhefte/_start_teilhefte.htm. However, there is no project-based budgeting, budget lines remain fairly general. |
| location | https://www.bmf.gv.at/budget/das-budget/das-budget.html - Federal Ministry of Finance website, https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/BUDG/ - Austrian Parliament website, section on budget analysis | The Ministry of Finance website is the primary source for data, the Parliament provides additional analysis on budgetary issues |
Accept: I agree with the assesment of the reviewer that the budget data - in machine readable format - is not sufficiently made available. Only overview tables and the budget law in PDF, and that does not suffice as an Open Data Set.