Woo Publication Platform is the Open Government Act (Wet Open Overheid; Woo) publication platform, developed by the the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport in the Netherlands (Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport; MinVWS). It helps government officials publish documents and improves access for journalists and the public to search them.
The Woo consists of 17 categories of documents that need to be made public. The platform initially supported category 14 (Woo-verzoeken, -besluiten en verstrekte informatie), and support for additional categories has been added over time.
Note: The published version does not include the Rijksoverheid theme used on OpenVWS. The site look and feel is very minimal out of the box.
The platform was originally conceived for use within MinVWS and was called "OpenMinVWS", later shortened to "OpenVWS". As the platform expands to multiple departments, the project has been named "Woo Publication Platform".
Repository names still use the nl-rdo- prefix. RDO is the former name of iRealisatie ("Realisatie Digitale Ondersteuning").
For technical info, see the Technical documentation and our collection of Architecture decision records
Our commit messages follow the pull request decoration guidelines.
The Woo-platform is based on the Symfony framework and uses Elasticsearch as its search engine.
- For installing, see the Developer Installation documentation
- For updating or local setup troubleshooting, see the Update documentation
- For Elasticsearch, see the Elasticsearch documentation.
- For platform console commands, see the Commands documentation.
- For testing, see the Test documentation
For Roles and permissions see the Access roles documentation.
For Doctrine entities, see the Doctrine documentation.
For terminology, see the Terminology documentation.
Additionally, information about the metadata requirements for the Woo Publication Platform can be found in the following documents:
Our project team promotes transparency, collaboration, and innovation through open source. We welcome technical and non-technical contributions to improve the Woo Publication Platform.
For contribution guidance, see the MinVWS contributing guide.
- Project repository: minvws/nl-rdo-woo-web
- Local development: Developer Installation
- Technical documentation: Technical
- E2E Robot test coverage: Test
Accessibility is important to the Woo Publication Platform. Its accessibility statement is available in the Toegankelijkheidsverklaring register.
The source code of this Woo-platform is released under the EUPL license. The documentation is released under the CC0 license. The EUPL 1.2 and the CC0 do not apply to photos, videos, infographics, fonts or other forms of media. Specifically the rijkslogo and rijkshuisstijl have specific terms of use.
Please see the REUSE.toml file for more details, which follows the Reuse specification.