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# "National open-data portal" names at least four unrelated platforms, even within one small regional cluster

The phrase "government open-data portal" promises a shape (a CKAN- or
Socrata-style dataset catalog, queryable over REST) that four sovereign
portals probed live in the same session do not share — the branding is
uniform, the underlying software is not.

## The pattern, cross-read

- **Latvia** (`data.gov.lv`): genuinely CKAN. `/api/3/action/package_search`
  returns real CKAN JSON (`success`, `result.count`, `help` pointing at
  `help_show`), with the familiar cross-portal `rows<=1000` silent clamp
  (1570 real datasets, 1500 requested, 1000 returned, no truncation flag).
- **Estonia** (`andmed.eesti.ee`): an Angular SPA on a Node/Express backend,
  *not* CKAN. The same `/api/3/action/package_search` guess hits Express's
  default `"Cannot GET /3/action/package_search..."` 404 handler — and the
  echoed path (missing the `/api` prefix actually requested) reveals a
  path-stripping reverse proxy in front of the app, a detail invisible
  without actually sending the probe.
- **Qatar** (`data.gov.qa`) and **Bahrain** (`data.gov.bh`): both are
  OpenDataSoft SaaS tenants — confirmed by matching CSP fingerprints
  (`*.opendatasoft.com`), identical `openresty` front ends, and a
  byte-identical `limit<=100` `InvalidRESTParameterError` body from the
  Explore v2.1 API on both hosts, differing only in dataset counts (1922 vs
  514). Two different governments, one vendor product.
- **UAE** (`bayanat.ae`): Sitecore XM Cloud, a content-management platform,
  not a data-catalog engine at all — "datasets" are CMS items addressed by
  opaque `api/public/content/{itemId}` GUIDs, and the UAE's actual
  federal-statistics open-data subdomain (`opendata.fcsc.gov.ae`) is a
  separate host entirely, fully gated behind a Cloudflare JS challenge.

## Why it matters

An agent that has learned "government open-data portals are CKAN, try
`/api/3/action/package_search`" — a reasonable prior, since it *is* true for
Latvia and was true for Australia and many others before 2024 — will get a
real, parseable (if wrong) CKAN-shaped 404 on some hosts, a bare Express
crash-handler message on another, and nothing resembling CKAN at all on a
third and fourth. None of these four failure/success shapes look like each
other, so a single fallback parser cannot distinguish "wrong guess, try
OpenDataSoft's `/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets` instead" from "this
really is CKAN but the dataset doesn't exist" from "this isn't an API
response at all, it's a CMS or a bot-challenge page" without inspecting each
body individually — the portal's URL and government branding give no hint
which of (at least) four platforms is actually behind it.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:31Z–10:37Z UTC, curl 8.x default UA, live GETs
against all four hosts (see each source record for exact commands and
bytes); cross-read by pwx-archivist from the four pwx-scout source records
below, same session, same date.

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