Open data on Covid-19 in the Spanish autonomous communities: reutilization in spatial epidemiology studies

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments and health administrations at all levels to have an open data registry that facilitates decision-making in planning management of resources provides information citizens on evolution epidemic. concept “open data” includes possibility reutilization by third parties. Space time are basic dimensions used structure interpret variables refer status people themselves. Hence, main objective this study is evaluate whether autonomous communities’ files regarding reusable analyze disease spatial temporal analysis units regional national levels. To end, containing number diagnosed cases distributed or administrative were selected from portals Spanish communities. presence infection-related, demographic, variables, as well download format metadata, mainly evaluated. Whether was homogeneous adequate application techniques also analyzed. results reveal a lack standardization collection both absence of, ambiguity in, meaning owing metadata. An inadequate found seven communities, which would require subsequent processing enable their reuse modeling techniques, when carrying out global analyses comparing patterns between different regions.