# Data.gouv.fr

Data.gouv.fr is the french official open data platform. It is managed by the Etalab Service, within the Prime Minister Services. I joined the data.gouv.fr team for a 6 month full-time contract as a "Data Editor" in 2020, right at the beginning of the pandemic when health data became critical in a few weeks.

As categories are not an available feature of CKAN (the open source tool used to build the platform), I suggested [we build thematic dataset collections pages](https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/pages/thematiques-a-la-une/), and created the first one related to COVID-19 data. There are now many thematic dataset pages on the platform.\
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I also wrote dataset descriptions, metadata schemes, the first newsletter of the platform and contributed to the Etalab blog. I handled the Twitter account to post about new datasets and open data news. I contributed to a few sections of the [data.gouv.fr documentation](https://doc.data.gouv.fr/) as well (using Github & Jekyll).\
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All content was written in Markdown.

<figure><img src="https://1927154691-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F2G8aJzbljMW78Ww5LCLV%2Fuploads%2F0U8dYKw35GNWaSjM7AK7%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=59659c05-5496-45d5-9f5b-11d1fade93ba" alt=""><figcaption><p>Screenshot of the thematic pages featuring important datasets by topic. This is now accessible from the platform's homepage.</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="https://1927154691-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F2G8aJzbljMW78Ww5LCLV%2Fuploads%2F8jUmY36DINqoLm3yA58p%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=da1833e6-4bfb-4050-be16-9cd94fc4b298" alt=""><figcaption><p>The COVID-19 datasets dedicated page</p></figcaption></figure>