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Data.parliament.uk vs Open Government, Belgium

Data.parliament.uk

The Dataset Explorer's underlying Linked Data API, hosted at `lda.data.parliament.uk`, is still live: a keyless GET against `bills.json` returned real, paginated bill records (2,000+ results) with a wildcard `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header, and `endpoints.json` lists dozens of other datasets (committees, attendance, members) served the same way. It's a legacy platform, though — Parliament now also runs newer per-domain REST APIs (`members-api.parliament.uk`, `bills-api.parliament.uk`) that cover the same ground with a modern interface and are worth checking first for new integrations.

Open Government, Belgium

Data.gov.be is Belgium's federal open-data portal, built on a custom Drupal-based platform rather than CKAN. Rather than a search REST API, it publishes its full catalogue as a DCAT-AP metadata export (RDF/XML and N-Triples) and exposes it live through a Triple Pattern Fragments / Linked Data Fragments server at `ldf.belgif.be/datagovbe`, which answers unauthenticated with a wildcard CORS header. The main site itself also sits behind bot-detection middleware that can block naive scripted fetches, but the LDF endpoint and the documented DCAT export are both reachable directly.

Data.parliament.ukOpen Government, Belgium
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSON, XML, RDF/XMLRDF/XML, N-Triples
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

Data.parliament.uk supports 3 response formats, while Open Government, Belgium offers fewer — pick Data.parliament.uk for more integration flexibility.

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