The directory brings together data publishers, APIs and AI guidance. Select sources by definition, coverage and reuse conditions, then test their usefulness.
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| Need | Questions to examine |
|---|---|
| Downloadable data | Licence, period, fields, coverage and update frequency. |
| API | Authentication, quotas, schema, pagination and service terms. |
| AI system | Use case, evaluation set, errors, human oversight and total cost. |
A catalogue guarantees neither access to every database nor rights for every use. Health data, personal data and quota-controlled feeds need specific checks with the publisher.
Check the specific dataset’s licence, terms and restrictions. A catalogue entry and accessible documentation do not mean that all records are open or suitable for your purpose.
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Collaborative database and API describing the accessibility of public-facing establishments for different disability needs.
Use it for: Find a venue’s accessibility information, then confirm specific requirements.
Source: acceslibre.beta.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Datasets and visualisations covering energy, climate, buildings, waste, mobility and the circular economy.
Use it for: Identify environmental data to support a documented analysis.
Source: data.ademe.fr · Link checked
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Agriculture Ministry statistics, series and publications on production, farms, territories and food sectors.
Use it for: Contextualise agricultural activity using official statistics.
Source: agreste.agriculture.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Official page for the open API to search French businesses by name or location and review the data it provides.
Use it for: Test API fields, limits and update behaviour before treating it as a reference source in a service.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Open data on fibre, fixed Internet, mobile networks, coverage and the quality of digital services.
Use it for: Compare coverage and connectivity while reading the measurement method.
Source: www.arcep.fr · Link checked
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Time series and datasets on money, credit, businesses, markets, the balance of payments and the economy.
Use it for: Find an economic series while preserving unit, frequency and revisions.
Source: webstat.banque-france.fr · Link checked
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Official French address register available through national or departmental files, map feeds and geocoding services.
Use it for: Use for address matching or normalisation; review ambiguous matches.
Source: adresse.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteFree API for public-contract notices, awards, concessions and calls for competition published in BOAMP.
Use it for: Prepare procurement-notice monitoring with explicit criteria and period.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Official civil and commercial notices covering businesses, sales, proceedings and registrations.
Use it for: Find a commercial announcement connected to a company and check its date.
Source: www.bodacc.fr · Link checked
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Search, download and integrate open cadastral plans covering parcels, sections, buildings and map features.
Use it for: Integrate cadastral boundaries while documenting vintage and source scope.
Source: cadastre.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Guidance, recommendations and a self-assessment framework for developing or using AI systems in line with the GDPR.
Use it for: Examine an AI system’s data-protection requirements before deployment.
Source: www.cnil.fr · Link checked
Open the official sitePractical guidance for identifying generative-AI uses and adopting safeguards suited to small businesses.
Use it for: Prepare internal rules for an initial AI use in a small business.
Source: www.cnil.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteCore data on public contracts and concessions published by contracting bodies and concession authorities.
Use it for: Assess essential procurement data with its schema and coverage limitations.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Public cultural-data platform providing datasets, APIs, visualisations and open formats.
Use it for: Find cultural data and its reuse conditions.
Source: culture.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteIndicators, datasets and APIs covering employment, unemployment, pay, working conditions and training.
Use it for: Explore employment or labour statistics with scope and methodology.
Source: dares.travail-emploi.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Public statistics on health, institutions, social protection, disability, pensions and social support.
Use it for: Contextualise social or health issues with documented statistics.
Source: data.drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteNational platform for finding, publishing and reusing datasets and APIs produced by public bodies and civil society.
Use it for: Before reusing a dataset, check its publisher, licence, update date and geographic scope.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteNational register of social and employment-inclusion organisations and services, regularly enriched and deduplicated.
Use it for: Assess referral to inclusion services by audience and area.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Open-data portal of the French economic and finance ministries, with exploration, visualisations, maps and APIs.
Use it for: Explore datasets published by economic and financial administrations.
Source: data.economie.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Survey catalogue, metadata and demographic databases covering population, fertility, mortality, migration and inequality.
Use it for: Start with documentation and access conditions; not every survey dataset is freely downloadable.
Source: data.ined.fr · Link checked
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Search and APIs for businesses in the national register, plus trademarks, patents and industrial designs.
Use it for: Use it to search for a business or industrial-property title, then verify the scope of the displayed result.
Source: data.inpi.fr · Automated check not confirmed
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Public data on sports facilities, places of practice, federations and territorial characteristics across France.
Use it for: Find sports data and check facility coverage and freshness.
Source: data.sports.gouv.fr · Link checked
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National open tourism-information platform for downloading and reusing data from French destinations.
Use it for: Assess a tourism-information feed and its update rules.
Source: diffuseur.datatourisme.fr · Link checked
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Practical guide to the use cases, prerequisites, costs and technical choices involved in a retrieval-augmented generation project.
Use it for: Assess requirements for retrieval-augmented document search before choosing an architecture.
Source: www.entreprises.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteOfficial catalogue of operational artificial-intelligence solutions suited to small and medium-sized businesses.
Use it for: Identify families of AI solutions for trials against the same use case.
Source: www.entreprises.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Detailed French foreign-trade statistics by product, country, region, period and customs classification.
Use it for: Study trade flows with relevant classifications and periods.
Source: lekiosque.finances.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Access to data on groundwater, surface water, river flows, water uses, quality and sanitation.
Use it for: Find water data while specifying area, measurement and period.
Source: www.eaufrance.fr · Link checked
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Thematic data catalogue covering climate, energy, biodiversity, water, housing, risks and local areas.
Use it for: Identify an environmental source and record its publisher and period.
Source: ecologie.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Education Ministry data portal covering institutions, pupils, examinations and the French education system.
Use it for: Explore school or education data with its period and scope.
Source: data.education.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Public studies on digital adoption, needs and perceptions among French small businesses.
Use it for: Contextualise small-business practices without extrapolating beyond the sample.
Source: www.francenum.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteLocal data on jobseekers, vacancies, hires, recruitment pressure, salaries and labour-market trends.
Use it for: Contextualise recruitment needs using labour-market indicators.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteReal-time API for active vacancies filterable by occupation, location, sector and contract type.
Use it for: Assess job-offer integration, fields and publication conditions.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteStructured reference data on occupations, skills, activities and work contexts for use in digital services.
Use it for: Connect a job title to skills in a documented reference framework.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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National reference database for air quality, providing measurements, statistics, history, maps and an API.
Use it for: Prepare air-quality analysis by checking stations, pollutants and periods.
Source: www.geodair.fr · Link checked
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Maps, open databases and APIs on natural, technological and environmental risks affecting local areas.
Use it for: Find risks associated with an area and read the data limitations.
Source: www.georisques.gouv.fr · Automated check not confirmed
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Practical framework for defining, measuring, communicating and improving data quality for a specific use.
Use it for: Choose quality dimensions that affect your decision and document defects at their source.
Source: www.gov.uk · Link checked
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Directory of French health databases searchable by medical field and information category.
Use it for: Identify a health database and contact its owner about access conditions.
Source: health-data-hub.fr · Link checked
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Authoritative geographic data, maps and services for finding, analysing, publishing or integrating territorial information.
Use it for: For a mapping project, compare coverage, precision, projection and reuse conditions of data layers.
Source: www.ign.fr · Link checked
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French national institute dedicated to evaluating the capabilities and safety of advanced artificial-intelligence systems.
Use it for: Follow institutional work on evaluation and safety of advanced AI systems.
Source: www.inria.fr · Link checked
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Access to the Sirene, Melodi, BDM, local-data and metadata APIs for French official statistics.
Use it for: Prepare access to a statistical API and read its parameters and conditions.
Source: www.insee.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteData and API catalogues, distribution formats and services for using French economic and social statistics.
Use it for: Useful for finding an official statistical denominator or context instead of comparing raw counts.
Source: www.insee.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteAPI for codes, legislation, regulations, case law and legal metadata published through Légifrance.
Use it for: Assess legal-text integration while retaining version and applicability date.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Thematic open-data catalogue covering freight, infrastructure, flows and the French logistics ecosystem.
Use it for: Identify freight data for a flow analysis.
Source: logistique.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Open data on higher education, research, institutions, study programmes and innovation.
Use it for: Find research or higher-education statistics with their reference year.
Source: data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Access to public weather and climate data produced by Météo-France.
Use it for: Prepare weather analysis with an explicit period, unit and frequency.
Source: meteo.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteNIST voluntary framework for structuring risk management for artificial-intelligence systems.
Use it for: Structure discussion of risks, responsibilities and controls for an AI use.
Source: www.nist.gov · Link checked
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Interactive mapping of hundreds of territorial indicators, with comparisons, local profiles and data exports.
Use it for: Compare territorial indicators while retaining the same geographic scope.
Source: www.observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteAnnual geolocated databases describing road injury accidents, the vehicles involved and casualties.
Use it for: Analyse accidents after checking definitions, location and year.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Multi-energy data on production, consumption, storage, infrastructure, markets and local areas.
Use it for: Compare energy data after checking units and publication granularity.
Source: opendata.reseaux-energies.fr · Link checked
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Search and download terrestrial and marine species-observation data published through France’s national natural-heritage inventory.
Use it for: Examine biodiversity observations without equating no observation with species absence.
Source: openobs.mnhn.fr · Automated check not confirmed
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Independent directory of artificial-intelligence tools organised to discover and compare their uses.
Use it for: Build an initial AI-tool shortlist, then check features and pricing with their publishers.
Source: pictoquest.worldwebcertified.com · Link checked
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Sovereign repository for publishing, sharing and opening data produced by French public research.
Use it for: Discover a research dataset and its documentation before reuse.
Source: recherche.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Open register assigning a unique persistent identifier to buildings, with a map, exports, APIs and vector tiles.
Use it for: Assess building identifiers for matching territorial sources.
Source: rnb.beta.gouv.fr · Link checked
Open the official siteOpen Anah data on the identity, location, buildings and administrative status of French co-owned properties.
Use it for: Understand available condominium information and publication limitations.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Data, indicators, maps and visualisations from Santé publique France by subject and location.
Use it for: Explore a health indicator while retaining definition, area and period.
Source: odisse.santepubliquefrance.fr · Link checked
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Rail-data catalogue and API covering stations, lines, scheduled timetables and real-time information.
Use it for: Find railway data with its schema and publication terms.
Source: ressources.data.sncf.com · Link checked
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Detailed tables and indicators on courts, decisions, processing times, civil and criminal cases and justice administration.
Use it for: Find justice statistics while distinguishing activity, cases and people.
Source: www.stats.justice.gouv.fr · Link checked
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France’s national access point for open mobility data covering public transport, cycling, car sharing, roads and infrastructure.
Use it for: Find mobility data for an area and check coverage.
Source: transport.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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Explore property transactions derived from notarial records and cadastral data, including prices, areas, locations and raw data.
Use it for: Examine property transactions without treating them as individual price estimates.
Source: explore.data.gouv.fr · Link checked
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A directory entry is a starting point. Match the resource to a defined need, check the original source and compare approaches before committing a budget.
Write down the audience, the problem, the expected result and the deadline. A website redesign, a security review and a data project call for different evidence and skills.
Open the organisation’s own site. Check its legal identity, the scope of its services, the date of its guidance and how to contact it. For public data, review the publisher, licence and update frequency.
Ask providers about relevant work, delivery method, responsibilities, accessibility, handover and support. Compare proposals against the same brief and note what is excluded.
A public resource may help you learn or benchmark; a provider may carry out a mission. Inclusion here does not imply endorsement, affiliation or current availability. Read the expert selection guide for a fuller checklist.
The filters group different types of resources. These notes explain the intended use and the checks to make before acting.
Choose this category when the need concerns a website, application, integration or long-term technical maintenance. Distinguish a delivery provider from a public guide explaining how to prepare the project.
Before you decide: Ask about ownership of the domain and code, accessibility checks, security updates, documentation and the support plan.
Scope the workUse this category for brand messages, visual identity, editorial production and channels. A communication plan should name its audience and the action it is meant to support.
Before you decide: Compare examples of published work, approval steps, usage rights and how consistency will be maintained across formats.
Plan contentExplore this category for infrastructure, connectivity, cybersecurity and operational support. Start with an inventory of essential services and who can access them.
Before you decide: Confirm response arrangements, backups, recovery responsibilities, subcontractors and the boundary between support and security advice.
Review security basicsFind public datasets, APIs and guidance for analysis or a controlled AI experiment. A catalogue entry describes a source; it does not automatically make the data suitable for a decision.
Before you decide: Check licence, update frequency, coverage, missing values, access conditions and whether a human can review consequential outputs.
Choose indicatorsLook here for search visibility, campaigns, email and measurement guidance. Begin with a target audience and a meaningful outcome before selecting a channel.
Before you decide: Ask which baseline will be used, how consent and tracking work, and who will maintain content after a campaign.
Build a content planUse networks to discover organisations, training or support. An entry in a network is a lead for further checking, not proof of availability or quality.
Before you decide: Verify membership criteria where relevant, the person who will carry out the work and the terms of any proposed introduction.
Compare specialistsThe date records an automated availability check, not a guarantee of data freshness, service quality or eligibility. Some publishers block automated requests. For each dataset or API, check the actual licence, update date, coverage and access terms before reuse.
