data.gov.mt (Open Data Malta)

data.gov.mt is the national government open-data portal for Malta, operated by MITA (Malta Information Technology Agency) as a bespoke "Shared Data Governance and Data Management Platform" with a JavaScript single-page-app front end (served at portal.data.gov.mt / open.data.gov.mt). It is DCAT-AP-compliant for EU harvesting (~230+ datasets) but exposes no publicly documented JSON catalog API. Malta's geospatial APIs are available separately via the MSDI geoportal.

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Open Data Malta Portal

Bespoke MITA-built open-data portal (JS SPA) at portal.data.gov.mt / open.data.gov.mt. The catalog is DCAT-AP-compliant and harvested into data.europa.eu (~230+ datasets across ...

Malta Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) geoportal

Malta's INSPIRE / geospatial stack exposing standard OGC services (GeoNetwork CSW, GeoServer WMS/WFS, ArcGIS). Distinct from the national open-data catalog.

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aid: data-gov-mt
name: data.gov.mt (Open Data Malta)
description: data.gov.mt is the national government open-data portal for Malta, operated by MITA (Malta Information Technology
  Agency) as a bespoke "Shared Data Governance and Data Management Platform" with a JavaScript single-page-app front end (served
  at portal.data.gov.mt / open.data.gov.mt). It is DCAT-AP-compliant for EU harvesting (~230+ datasets) but exposes no publicly
  documented JSON catalog API. Malta's geospatial APIs are available separately via the MSDI geoportal.
kind: government
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-mt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Open Data
- Custom Platform
- DCAT-AP
- Government Data
- National Government
- Malta
- Europe
created: '2026-06-23'
modified: '2026-06-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: data-gov-mt:portal
  name: Open Data Malta Portal
  description: Bespoke MITA-built open-data portal (JS SPA) at portal.data.gov.mt / open.data.gov.mt. The catalog is DCAT-AP-compliant
    and harvested into data.europa.eu (~230+ datasets across sectors such as planning and statistics), but no public, documented
    JSON/REST catalog API was located; the SPA calls an undocumented internal backend. Standard CKAN paths 404 (it is not
    CKAN).
  humanURL: https://portal.data.gov.mt/
  baseURL: https://portal.data.gov.mt/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Catalog
  - DCAT-AP
  - SPA
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://portal.data.gov.mt/
  - type: x-dcat-harvest
    url: https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?catalog=data-gov-mt
- aid: data-gov-mt:msdi
  name: Malta Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) geoportal
  description: Malta's INSPIRE / geospatial stack exposing standard OGC services (GeoNetwork CSW, GeoServer WMS/WFS, ArcGIS).
    Distinct from the national open-data catalog.
  humanURL: https://msdi.data.gov.mt/
  baseURL: https://msdi.data.gov.mt/
  tags:
  - Geospatial
  - INSPIRE
  - OGC
  - WMS
  - WFS
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://msdi.data.gov.mt/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://portal.data.gov.mt/
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com