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OpenCatalogi

The public-facing software, dataset, and API catalogue. Drops into your Nextcloud, surfaces every register as a searchable entry, federates to data.overheid.nl out of the box.

OpenCatalogi is an open-source publication catalog app for the Nextcloud workspace. It lets government bodies publish, index, and share catalogs of software, services, and data through a single user interface, and ingests metadata from GitHub, GitLab, and external APIs via PublicCode.yml. The app supports WOO compliance (Public Access to Government Information Act) and standardized organization profiles, making public-sector information discoverable to citizens, businesses, and other agencies. Released under EUPL-1.2 and maintained by Conduction since 2019.
What it does

One catalogue, every register, every public link.

Connect OpenCatalogi to your registers, configure once, and your team is publishing searchable entries the same morning. Citizens land at jouwgemeente.nl/catalogi and find what they need without writing a Woo-verzoek.

Federated search by default.

Search runs across every register on your install plus every catalogue you've federated with. Results stay sovereign, no central index.

DCAT-AP profile, NLDS-aligned.

Every entry exports as DCAT-AP and NLDS metadata. data.overheid.nl picks it up without manual upload.

Citation-stable URLs.

Every catalogue entry gets a permanent identifier. Tweede Kamer-vragen and audit trails keep working through reorganisations.

Woo publication flow.

All 17 mandatory Woo (Wet open overheid) information categories get DIWOO sitemaps and robots.txt out of the box, with audit-trail and retention lifecycle built in.

Open, forever.

Every entry exportable to plain JSON. The day you uninstall is as easy as the day you installed. No vendor lock-in, ever.

Partners

Partners shipping OpenCatalogi

Implementation, hosting, and integration partners that deliver OpenCatalogi to their customers. Pick the partner you already work with, or one whose stack matches yours.

Certified
Acato logo
Acato
Digital agency from Den Haag. Builds accessible websites and web apps for municipalities and government organisations, focused on WCAG 2.2 AA and NLDS. Delivers the Conduction OpenWoo solution on OpenCatalogi, OpenRegister, and OpenConnector.
Service
Shift2 logo
Shift2
Dutch software builder for municipalities, water boards, and provinces, part of the Conxillium group. Ships CMS, civil affairs, and forms, plus the Conduction OpenWoo solution on OpenCatalogi, OpenRegister, and OpenConnector.
Host
BCT logo
BCT
Dutch supplier of information- and document-management software (Corsa, Verix). Delivers the Conduction OpenWoo solution to organisations that want their information governance in order.
Host
Open Gemeenten logo
Open Gemeenten
Open-source platform for municipal websites. Serves more than 30 municipalities with accessible sites (WCAG, internet.nl). Also delivers the Conduction OpenWoo solution.
Host
xxllnc logo
xxllnc
Dutch supplier of case-management software for municipalities (xxllnc Zaken, plus apps for taxes and the social domain). Also delivers the Conduction OpenWoo solution.
Host
YARD logo
YARD
Digital agency from Utrecht for municipalities, healthcare, and knowledge organisations. Open-source-oriented, more than 80 projects. Delivers the Conduction OpenWoo solution.
Host
iO logo
iO
Belgian-Dutch digital agency with offices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Builds customer-facing digital platforms and delivers the Conduction OpenWoo solution to public and semi-public organisations.
Become a partner

Ship Conduction to your customers.

Three tiers: Host (ship our apps), Service (SLA + third-line support), Certified (trained, joint roadmap, tender-eligible). The apps stay open source, the relationship stays direct.

Apply through Support
How it works

Four steps, one configuration pass.

The same pipeline applies to a software catalogue, a Woo-portal, or a public API directory. Configure the connector, point it at your register, the catalogue lights up.

Sources
  • Spreadsheets
  • Databases
  • REST / SOAP
  • Legacy systems
01
Ingest
OpenConnector
Pull data in from existing systems via REST, SOAP, file drops.
02
Validate
OpenRegister
Schema validates every write. Citation-stable IDs assigned.
03
Surface
OpenCatalogi
Federated public catalogue. Search, filter, share.
04
Render
LaunchPad
Optional dashboards and reports for the team.
Consumers
  • Citizens
  • Partners
  • API clients
  • Auditors
Three ways OpenCatalogi earns its place

Federated catalogue, register-aware, dashboard-ready.

Scroll the cards. Each pins as you reach it; the next slides up to cover.

Federated by default

One catalogue, many publishers.

OpenCatalogi indexes registers across organisations and federates to data.overheid.nl. Search once, find every published record. No central database, no nightly import.

See the catalogue
Register-aware

Every entry is a typed register row.

OpenCatalogi reads OpenRegister directly. Schema changes flow through. Citation-stable IDs land in the catalogue automatically.

See OpenRegister
Dashboard-ready

What you publish, you can chart.

LaunchPad reads the same registers OpenCatalogi indexes. Publish a dataset and a graph of it shows up on the dashboard the same morning.

See LaunchPad
Widgets we ship

On every Nextcloud dashboard.

Install OpenCatalogi and the home screen tracks what got published, what was searched, and what other gemeenten are federating from you.

Most-viewed publications

Top publications by view count, so you know what the public is actually reading.

3.4k
records
12
catalogs
847
unpublished

Catalogues at a glance

Every catalogue on this instance, with its publication count, in one widget.

Expiring soon (4)
Review required (2)
Archived (11)

Retention review queue

Publications whose retention term needs a decision — expiring-soon, review-required, and archived, each linking straight into the filtered list.

Pairs well with

Three apps that fill the catalogue.

OpenCatalogi surfaces what's already typed. These apps fill, connect, and extend the registers OpenCatalogi reads from.