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85 resources

Public dataCatalogue

data.gov.ro

National open-data portal

Find datasets published by Romanian public institutions.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataCatalogue

data.europa.eu

Publications Office of the EU

Search European data and trace each record to its publishing catalogue.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

TEMPO-Online

National Institute of Statistics

A starting point for statistical series on population, the economy and localities.

Rights need checkingNeeds another review
Public dataDatabase

Eurostat database

Eurostat

Compare European indicators and download tables with their explanatory metadata.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap and its contributors

Use community mapping data about roads, buildings and places.

ODbL-1.0Source reviewed
Public dataCatalogue

Copernicus Climate Data Store

ECMWF / Copernicus

Find climate data and documentation for downloading it through an API.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Public dataCatalogue

EEA Datahub

European Environment Agency

Find European sources for environmental research.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Documents & standardsArchive

Romanian legislative portal

Ministry of Justice

A starting point for finding Romanian legislation.

Rights need checkingNeeds another review
Documents & standardsArchive

EUR-Lex

Publications Office of the EU

Find EU law, the Official Journal and consolidated texts, including Romanian versions.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Documents & standardsStandard

DCAT-AP 3.0.1

SEMIC / European Commission

Consult a common profile for describing catalogues and datasets.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Documents & standardsStandard

W3C PROV

World Wide Web Consortium

Understand how to describe data origins, activities and the people or organisations involved.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageAPI

OpenAlex

OurResearch

Explore a research index and its API documentation.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageAPI

Crossref REST API

Crossref

Search metadata about publications, funding and DOI identifiers.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageAPI

DataCite REST API

DataCite

Search DataCite DOI metadata to discover datasets and other research outputs.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageDatabase

Research Organization Registry

ROR

Identify research organisations through structured records and institutional relationships.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

UD Romanian RRT

Romanian RRT team / Universal Dependencies

Analyse Romanian sentences with morphological and syntactic annotation.

CC-BY-SA-4.0Source reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

UD Romanian Nonstandard

Romanian Nonstandard team / Universal Dependencies

Study nonstandard Romanian texts annotated in the Universal Dependencies framework.

CC-BY-SA-4.0Source reviewed
Research & languageCatalogue

OPUS

OPUS project

Explore parallel-text collections for translation and linguistic research.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

CoRoLa

RACAI and the Institute of Computer Science

Search words, grammatical forms and contexts in a reference corpus of contemporary Romanian.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Cultural heritageCatalogue

Europeana

Europeana

Discover digitised heritage from European collections and continue to the holding institution.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Cultural heritageAPI

Europeana APIs

Europeana

Search collections and retrieve object records through documented interfaces.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Cultural heritageArchive

Romanian National Digital Library

National Library of Romania

Find manuscripts, early books, periodicals and documents digitised from the library collections.

Restrictive termsSource reviewed
Cultural heritageStandard

IIIF Presentation API 3.0

IIIF community

Understand manifests that describe the order and presentation of digital objects in a viewer.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Cultural heritageDocument

General map of Romania, 1900

Romanian Army Geographic Institute

Consult a digitised historical map with documented authorship, date and provenance.

Public domainSource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

School network map — SIIIR

Ministry of Education and Research

Find the official entry point to school mapping and the framework for organising the network.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Locality population in the 2021 census

National Institute of Statistics

Table 1.22 provides resident population by sex, county, municipality, town, commune and village.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Early leaving from education — Romania

Eurostat

Indicator for people aged 18–24 with at most lower-secondary education who did not participate in education or training in the previous four weeks.

Eurostat reuse policySource reviewed
Public dataDataset

CFR Călători train timetables

S.C. Informatică Feroviară S.A.

Annual schedules for comparing rail connections and journey times.

OGL-ROU-1.0Source reviewed
Public dataDataset

Air quality measurement time series

European Environment Agency

Country-reported measurements filterable by city and pollutant for local air-quality reporting.

CC BY 4.0Source reviewed
Public dataDataset

TED public procurement notices

Publications Office of the European Union

Search and download notices to examine Romanian authorities' procurement published on TED.

Reuse permitted; metadata CC0 1.0Source reviewed
Public dataDataset

CORINE land cover 2018

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service / EEA

Land classification for examining urban extent and landscapes around settlements.

Copernicus full, free and open access policySource reviewed
Public dataDataset

OpenStreetMap extract for Romania

OpenStreetMap contributors; distributed by Geofabrik

Community-mapped roads, buildings and other features for local maps and field verification.

ODbL 1.0Source reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

DGT-TM translation memory

European Commission — Joint Research Centre

Extract Romanian segments and their translations from EU legislation for terminology and machine-translation research.

European Commission reuse conditionsSource reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

JRC-Acquis — parallel legislative texts

European Commission — Joint Research Centre

Study Romanian legislative documents alongside other language versions and alignment links.

European Commission reuse conditionsSource reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

DGT-Acquis — aligned documents and paragraphs

European Commission — Joint Research Centre

Compare Romanian wording in EU Official Journal document context, with paragraph alignment.

European Commission reuse conditionsSource reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

Europarl — Romanian and English

Philipp Koehn

Use the Romanian–English European Parliament debate pair for translation research.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

EAC-TM — education and culture translations

European Commission — Joint Research Centre

Explore Romanian segments from forms and reference texts for European education and culture programmes.

European Commission copyright noticeSource reviewed
Research & languageCorpus

ECDC-TM — public-health translations

European Commission — Joint Research Centre

Compare Romanian segments with professional translations of ECDC texts for medical terminology research.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Documents & standardsDatabase

ReJust — national case law

Superior Council of Magistracy

The official entry point to the ReJust portal for national case law.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

SIRUTA 2024 — locality identifiers

National Institute of Statistics

The 2024 territorial register of counties, administrative units and localities, with a legend.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataCatalogue

ROMPLUS — earthquake catalogue

National Institute for Earth Physics

The official download page for the ROMPLUS catalogue; the institution’s navigation also links to the browsing application.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Life expectancy in Romania

Eurostat

Series by age and sex for comparing life expectancy; the example selects Romania and the under-one age group.

Eurostat reuse policySource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Hospital beds in Romania

Eurostat

Data on available beds by function and type of care. The API example uses a five-year window and beds per 100,000 inhabitants.

Eurostat reuse policySource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Risk of poverty or social exclusion

Eurostat

The EU 2030 AROPE indicator combines poverty risk, severe material and social deprivation, and very low household work intensity.

Eurostat reuse policySource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Unemployment by age and sex — Romania

Eurostat

Annual labour-force-survey series with counts and rates. The example selects Romania, both sexes and ages 15–74.

Eurostat reuse policySource reviewed
Public dataDataset

GDP by county and NUTS 3 region

Eurostat

GDP at current prices, with monetary units and per-inhabitant values. The API example selects Bihor county, code RO111.

Eurostat reuse policySource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Difficulty keeping the home warm

Eurostat

Share of the population reporting they cannot afford adequate home heating, by household type and poverty risk.

Eurostat reuse policySource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

Political party and campaign financing

Permanent Electoral Authority

Records of public subsidies allocated to political parties, membership dues, private donations and reported campaign expenses.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

Public asset and interest disclosure registry

National Integrity Agency

Public discovery search for annual asset and interest disclosures filed by Romanian dignitaries, magistrates and public servants.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

National public procurement — SICAP / SEAP

Authority for Digitalisation of Romania / ANAP

Annual aggregated exports covering public tender procedures, direct awards, framework agreements and awarded contracts in Romania via SICAP.

OGL-RO 1.0Source reviewed
Public dataAPI

Company fiscal registry — ANAF API

National Agency for Fiscal Administration

Public web service to query taxpayer fiscal status by unique identification code (CUI): VAT registration, fiscal inactivity, addresses and headquarters.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

National Air Quality Monitoring Network — RNMCA

Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests

Hourly and daily measurements of atmospheric pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, NO2, SO2, O3, CO) supplied by certified official reference stations in Romania.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataCatalogue

ANCPI National Geoportal — INSPIRE spatial data

National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration

National access point for viewing (WMS) and download (WFS) services covering official spatial data: cadastral parcel boundaries, registered properties, orthophotos and administrative units.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

National Power Grid status — Transelectrica

Transelectrica

Real-time data and historical series on Romania’s electricity production, consumption and cross-border commercial flows, broken down by generation type (nuclear, hydro, coal, gas, wind, solar, biomass).

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageDatabase

DEX online — Romanian lexicographic database

DEX online Association

Complete downloadable database of dictionary definitions, inflection paradigms and etymologies from over 30 reference dictionaries of Romanian, accompanied by a public REST API.

CC-BY-SA-4.0Source reviewed
Cultural heritageArchive

BCU Cluj Digital Library — DSpace

Lucian Blaga Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca

Institutional digital repository containing historical Romanian periodicals (Gazeta Transilvaniei, Tribuna, Familia), early books, manuscripts, iconography and doctoral dissertations, accessible via OAI-PMH.

Varies by resourceSource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

Statistical bulletin of the trade register — ONRC

National Trade Register Office

Monthly statistical series on company registrations, dissolutions, suspensions and authorized sole proprietorships by county and NACE economic sector.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Railway timetables and transport data — CFR

CFR Călători and CFR SA

Official passenger train schedule across the national railway network, stations, direct routes, transfers and travel times.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

National road and motorway network — CNAIR

National Road Infrastructure Administration (CNAIR)

Primary road infrastructure of Romania: motorway routes, express roads, national highways, construction projects and road restrictions.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageDataset

Historical demographic census series of Romania (1859–2002)

Academic collections & National Institute of Statistics

Digitized demographic tables from historical population censuses (1930, 1941, 1956, 1966, 1977, 1992, 2002) with ethnic, denominational and rural/urban breakdowns.

CC-BY-4.0Source reviewed
Documents & standardsDatabase

Public audit annual reports — Romanian Court of Accounts

Romanian Court of Accounts

Annual financial, performance and compliance audit reports on the management, allocation and expenditure of public finances across state institutions and state-owned enterprises.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Cultural heritageDataset

National historical monuments list — INP

National Heritage Institute

Official register of historical monuments, architectural ensembles and archaeological sites protected as built heritage in Romania, structured by county with LMI codes, dating and addresses.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

National catalogue of medicine prices — CANAMED

Ministry of Health and ANMDMR

Official catalogue containing maximum wholesale and retail prices, international nonproprietary names (INN), dosage forms and marketing authorisation holders for prescription medicinal products.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

Contracted projects and EU funds payments — MySMIS / MIPE

Ministry of Investments and European Projects

Financing contracts awarded under European structural and cohesion funds (operational programmes 2014–2020 and 2021–2027), detailing public and private beneficiaries, values and disbursement status.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Research & languageDatabase

Cultural consumption barometer and cultural statistics — INCFC

National Institute for Cultural Research and Training

National sociological surveys, empirical studies on cultural participation and habits, institutional statistics on theatres, museums, libraries, publishing and cultural audiences in Romania.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

National meteorological observation network — ANM

National Meteorological Administration

Hourly and daily weather observations recorded across national meteorological stations: temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, air pressure, precipitation and hazardous weather alerts.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDatabase

Register of licensed road transport operators — ARR

Romanian Road Authority

National registry of licensed road freight and passenger transport operators, commercial vehicles holding valid certified copies, and inter-county public transit transit corridors.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Public dataDataset

Consumer price index and inflation rate — INS

National Institute of Statistics

Monthly consumer price index (CPI) series, average inflation rate, consumption basket weightings, and price movements across three main groups: food goods, non-food goods, and consumer services.

Rights need checkingSource reviewed
Practical guides

Start with a question.

Reading the sources

Sources you can see.
Limits you can check.

This independent discovery catalogue includes Romanian resources and international infrastructure useful for researching Romania. Inclusion does not mean that all content is freely reusable.

What does “source reviewed” mean?

Each record states its review date. Reviewing documentation is not a complete data audit. Inspected files and API responses are identified separately. Two sources still need another review.

Why are some rights unclear?

An identified licence is explicitly stated by the cited source. In catalogues, rights vary between resources. When evidence is insufficient, we preserve the unknown: a page being free to read does not establish redistribution rights.

What is in the export?

Records, descriptions in both languages, sources, limitations and editorial relationships, in JSON and CSV. Unknown values are null in JSON and empty fields in CSV. Original files stay with their providers.

How complete is this catalogue?

85 resources across four collections. The selection is not exhaustive. Review dates are not data update dates. There is no automated monitoring.

Historical map of Romania from 1900, showing terrain and the borders of that period.
General map of Romania, 1900. Romanian Army Geographic Institute; UWM Libraries collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Reduced copy; historical borders. Image source and rights ↗
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