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How local councils drive open data in municipalities
Although local governments are the closest actors to citizens, they often face limitations in terms of resources and capacities to implement open data effectively. The diputations, as intermediate institutions between central government and municipalities, play a key role in coordinating, supporting…
10 principles for web development and web API design
Web API design is a fundamental discipline for the development of applications and services, facilitating the fluid exchange of data between different systems. In the context of open data platforms, APIs are particularly important as they allow users to access the information they need automatically…
Big Data Test Infrastructure: A free environment for public administrations to experiment with open data
The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is a tool funded by the European Digital Agenda, which enables public administrations to perform analysis with open data and open source tools in order to drive innovation.
This free-to-use, cloud-based tool was created in 2019 to accelerate d…
Overcoming Data Publishing Challenges with Linked Data Event Streams (LDES)
What challenges do data publishers face?
In today's digital age, information is a strategic asset that drives innovation, transparency and collaboration in all sectors of society. This is why data publishing initiatives have developed enormously as a key mechanism for unlocking the potential of this…
Re3gistry: facilitating the semantic interoperability of data
The INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) Directive sets out the general rules for the establishment of an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community based on the Infrastructures of the Member States. Adopted by the European Parliament a…
Segment Anything Model: Key Insights from Meta's Segmentation Model Applied to Spatial Data
Image segmentation is a method that divides a digital image into subgroups (segments) to reduce its complexity, thus facilitating its processing or analysis. The purpose of segmentation is to assign labels to pixels to identify objects, people, or other elements in the image.
Image segmentation is c…
European Webinars: Monitoring Climate Change and Digital Development with Open Data
The "Stories of Use Cases" series, organized by the European Open Data portal (data.europe.eu), is a collection of online events focused on the use of open data to contribute to common European Union objectives such as consolidating democracy, boosting the economy, combating climate change, and driv…
Chat GPT-3 API The Gateway to Integrations
We continue with the series of posts about Chat GPT-3. The expectation raised by the conversational system more than justifies the publication of several articles about its features and applications. In this post, we take a closer look at one of the latest news published by openAI related to Chat GP…
APIS for accessing and downloading tourism data
Spain was the second country in the world that received the most tourists during 2019, with 83.8 million visitors. That year, tourism activity represented 12.4% of GDP, employing more than 2.2 million people (12.7% of the total). It is therefore a fundamental sector for our economy.
These figures ha…
APIs for open data Access
Last December, the Congress of Deputies approved Royal Decree-Law 24/2021, which included the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on open data and the reuse of public sector information. This Royal Decree amends Law 37/2007 on the reuse of public sector information, including new requirements…
