Data Village

Data Village is an online forum about data sharing, information governance and related topics.

Here you will meet others who work with data and data sharing, both in the public and private sectors. The Data Village is a place to share experiences, ask questions, and get help finding data.

The Data Village is mainly in Norwegian, but you can write in English as well. When logged in, you can choose to change the language of the forum interface to English. This will not affect the content of the posts, but it will make it easier for you to navigate the forum.

Getting Started

The Data Village is open to everyone. You can read all posts without registering. However, if you want to write posts, you need to create a user account. This is easily done by following the steps below.

Go to Datalandsbyen.norge.no
Click on Log in at the top right
Select Register and follow the instructions if you do not already have a user account that you have used in other Digdir services, such as Samarbeidsportalen.
Approve consent and terms of use for the online forum

The first post published by a new user in the forum must be approved by an administrator.

With a user account, you can:

Write and reply to posts
Upvote posts
Subscribe to topics to receive email notifications about new posts
Choose to receive an email summary of recent activity in the forum

Tips for Use

Request Data

If you need help finding data or want to request that data be published, you can write a post in the category "Etterspør datasett og API-er" (Request Datasets and APIs). We will follow up and contact relevant data providers and others in our network to assist you. Perhaps others in the Data Village also have tips for you?

Tips for writing a post about data requests (in norwegian).

Questions or Comments on Datasets

If you have questions or comments about a dataset described in data.norge.no, you can ask the question in the Data Village. We will then notify the data owner that a post has been made that they should respond to.

Please check if there is an existing discussion thread about the dataset you are interested in, or create a new thread in the category "Kommentartråder" (Comment Threads). Existing discussion threads that link to the dataset can also be found on the dataset page in data.norge.no, under the "Discussions" tab.

Good Examples of Data Use

In the category "Gode eksempler på bruk" (Good Examples of Use), you can find examples of how others have used data, whether it is to create an app, service, visualization, or something else.

Have you created something with data that you would like to share? Feel free to post in this category.

Tips for writing a post about example of use of data (in norwegian).

Feedback on data.norge.no

If you have feedback or questions about data.norge.no, you can write a post in the category "Tilbakemeldinger og nyheter" (Feedback and news).

Other

In the Data Village, there are also categories for meetings and events, questions about law, artificial intelligence, information modeling, and more. Visit Datalandsbyen to see all categories.