Press releases only tell us so much - the data that can drive Government decisions should be readily available
To provide user-friendly access to the core information and detail on the State’s finances, gov.ie should have co-opted librarian skills in developing the site’s architecture and navigability. Librarians are trained in how to make information available to people in a format that they can easily find. As a regular user of TCD library, Government publications were on open access on their shelves, filed by library staff under the department that published them, and then in alphabetical order.
All is not lost for those urgently seeking Government publications! The Oireachtas library has being doing a quiet job of scanning all major Government publications since the foundation of the state, and they are freely available online. There you can find Government accounts for 2019 that cannot be found on the gov.ie website. Some of the work of the Oireachtas library is patchy, with occasional scanned files being empty, and some missing issues. Their search engine is a bit unwieldy.
The Central Statistics Office is Ireland's national statistics collection service. Photograph: The Irish Times. Publications and databases are easily accessed with a readily understandable hierarchy. If you want to find details of the Labour Force Survey you go to “databases” and then “labour market”. The CSO are also doing a major service to historians as they are gradually putting up past publications.
It’s good to look at how Irish data websites compare to their counterparts elsewhere. While not up to the CSO’s standard, I find the Eurostat website quite easy to use, but it also tends to mislay older data sets when new ones come along.
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