Open Government Data (OGD) is typically published inside Open Data Portals, which serve as data lakes that aggregate information from diverse sources, often accessed via W3C standards. The quality of published datasets varies widely across these sources. Between publication and access, the main challenge is to produce a high quality dataset at the time of publication. This work focuses on an analysis of the current state of dataset publication and the problems associated with it. The results show a large gap between the different organisational levels within the European Union (EU). Possible approaches to a standardised dataset publication process are discussed, with a particular focus on naming conventions for files and attributes, as well as a Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) approach. This work discusses the hypothesis that enhancing the data publication process contributes to greater data usability and more effective querying, which are key prerequisites for achieving an interoperable Europe.