SOFTWARE ENGINEERING / NATIONAL DATA PLATFORM
Montenegro Open Data Portal
A national open-data service rebuilt for reliable publishing, administration and interoperable reuse.
Montenegro's Open Data Portal was rebuilt and put into production with migrated legacy content, six-role governance, multilingual access, REST/harvesting/DCAT interoperability, documentation and administrator training.
ScopeNational scope; deployed in the Ministry of Public Administration environment
ClientUnited Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
MapSoft roleNamed UNDP Contractor under Contract 10259920 within a joint venture / consortium with B-One LLC. Confirmed MapSoft project roles were Team Leader, Web Developer/Programmer and Database/Data Structure Expert; B-One supplied the Software/DevOps/System Architect and UI/UX Designer roles.
Project context
Rebuilding a national public service without losing usable legacy information
After the previous administration module could not be recovered, the project had to preserve usable published content while rebuilding the workflows, roles and interoperability needed for a maintainable national open-data service.
Montenegro needed a new operational Open Data Portal after the administration module of the previous portal could not be recovered following the August 2022 cyber-attack. Previously published data remained visible, so the project had to preserve and migrate usable legacy content while rebuilding the administrative, publishing and interoperability capabilities needed for a national public-sector service.
Delivery model: MapSoft provided the Team Leader, Web Developer/Programmer and Database/Data Structure Expert roles within the joint venture with B-One. Project results are attributed at consortium level unless an individual responsibility is explicitly documented.
Public portal
Public discovery and reuse on top of a governed institutional platform
The public interface provides dataset discovery, browsing and access, while institutional workflows behind the portal control who can create, edit, review and publish content.
3language / script variants
6documented user-role types
REST · DCATinteroperable access and exchange
Publishing workflows
Dataset publication is a controlled process, not a file upload
Organization users work through role-based dataset and resource workflows, including metadata, visibility, resource upload or external links, and administrative review according to permissions.
GOVERNANCE
Administration, moderation and institutional responsibility
The delivered portal distinguishes public use from organization and system administration. Real project UI documents governance and moderation workflows rather than only the public-facing catalogue.
Data & interoperability
A data platform designed for exchange beyond the portal itself
The final-state platform combines migrated legacy content, a structured CKAN data environment, REST access, harvesting and DCAT interoperability for machine-readable exchange with the wider open-data ecosystem.
01Legacy contentExisting reusable datasets and metadata
→02Governed platformCKAN 2.11 · PostgreSQL/PostGIS · Solr
→03Publishing & discoveryRoles, metadata, public/private resources
→04Interoperable exchangeREST · Harvesting · DCAT
Engineering & transition
Incremental development, production deployment and user enablement
The project used an iterative prototyping approach and moved through development, deployment, administrator training and transition into a specified support phase.
OPERATIONAL TRANSITION
Support as part of operational transition
The support environment provides a dedicated channel for MapSoft solutions. After production deployment, the engagement transitioned into a specified 12-month support phase.
- 01Assess legacy portal content and migration needs
- 02Configure the national portal architecture and data model
- 03Migrate and quality-check reusable legacy content
- 04Implement role-based publishing, discovery and administration
- 05Configure API, harvesting and DCAT interoperability
- 06Deploy to the Ministry environment and train administrators
- 07Transition the production portal to support
Delivered system
A production platform with public access, institutional governance and interoperability
The documented result is more than a redesigned website: it combines migrated data, role-based administration, multilingual access, publishing workflows, APIs, harvesting, documentation, training and production transition.
Production national Open Data Portal
CKAN 2.11-based public and administrative portal reported as fully functional in the final report.
Migrated legacy open-data content
Relevant data from the previous portal reported as successfully migrated after quality/consistency review.
Role-based publishing and administration workflows
Dataset/resource management, organization administration, moderation and system administration.
API, harvesting and DCAT interoperability
RESTful data/metadata access, harvesting and DCAT-based interoperability.
Technical and user documentation
As-built technical documentation plus organization- and system-administrator manuals.
Administrator training
Training for system and organization administrators.
2 audiencesWhat this project proves
National-scale software modernization in production
Modern public-sector data publishing with real production and interoperability proof.
The Montenegro Open Data Portal proves MapSoft can provide core software leadership, web development and data-platform expertise inside a multi-company consortium for a national public-sector service. It is evidence of legacy modernization, migration, role-based publishing, interoperable data exchange, multilingual delivery, documentation, training and production transition, while preserving B-One's documented architecture/DevOps and UI/UX roles.
National open-data publishing restored after legacy administration lossRelevant legacy content migrated into the new production platformSix-role governance from public users to system administratorsREST, harvesting and DCAT interoperability for wider data exchange
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