All public bodies in Greece, including Universities, are obliged to comply with the national legal framework and policy on open data. An emerging concern is how such a big and diverse organization could develop supporting procedures from an administrative, legal and technical stand point, that will enhance and expand the level of the provided open data-related services. In this paper, we describe our experience, as University of Crete, for tackling with these requirements. In particular, (a) we detail the steps of the process that we followed, (b) we show how an Open Data Catalog can be exploited also in the first steps of this process, © we describe the platform that we selected, how we organized the catalog and the metadata selection, (d) we describe extensions that were required, (e) we motivate and describe various additional services that we developed, and (f) we discuss the current status and possible next steps.