metadata harvesting portal

A meta-catalog that aggregates dataset descriptions from many publisher catalogues instead of hosting the data itself. data.europa.eu daily harvests 210 source catalogues across 36 countries into 1.7 million-plus records, each linking back to publisher-hosted files under the publisher's own licence.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - EU Open Data Portal - Telecommunications Carrier Datasets — "1,725,936 datasets from 210 catalogues across 36 countries". - Data.gov Catalog - Telecommunications & Carrier Datasets — "Data.gov".

A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.

The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and EU Open Data Portal - Telecommunications Carrier Datasets lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open EU Open Data Portal - Telecommunications Carrier Datasets and confirm its record — "1,725,936 datasets from 210 catalogues across 36 countries" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Open Data.gov Catalog - Telecommunications & Carrier Datasets and confirm its record — "Data.gov" — against the files you actually receive.

See the term applied to real records: alternative-carriers data, distributors data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - community dataset hub - per-dataset licence variance - SPARQL endpoint search