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GeoPackage in INSPIRE: efficiency and usability for geospatial data geospatial data.
In the field of geospatial data, encoding and standardisation play a key role in ensuring interoperability between systems and improving accessibility to information.
The INSPIRE Directive (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) determines the general rules for the establishment of an Inf…
Data activism: an increasingly relevant practice in the age of platforms
Data activism is an increasingly significant citizen practice in the platform era for its growing contribution to democracy, social justice and rights. It is an activism that uses data and data analysis to generate evidence and visualisations with the aim of revealing injustices, improving peop…
Invisibilisation and algorithmic discrimination
Digital technology and algorithms have revolutionised the way we live, work and communicate. While promising efficiency, accuracy and convenience, these technologies can exacerbate prejudice and social inequalities exacerbate prejudice and social inequalities and create new forms of exclusion and cr…
A common language to enable interoperability between open dataset catalogs
Open data plays a relevant role in technological development for many reasons. For example, it is a fundamental component in informed decision making, in process evaluation or even in driving technological innovation. Provided they are of the highest quality, up-to-date and ethically sound, data can…
The gender gap: inequality is also in the data
Today, 8 March is the day on which we commemorate women's struggle to achieve their full participation in society, as well as giving visibility to the current gender inequality and demanding global action for effective equality of rights in all areas.
However, the data seem to indicate that we still…
Why should you use Parquet files if you process a lot of data?
It's been a long time since we first heard about the Apache Hadoop ecosystem for distributed data processing. Things have changed a lot since then, and we now use higher-level tools to build solutions based on big data payloads. However, it is important to highlight some best practices related to ou…
Trends in open data around the world
In view of the series of current and future trends around the future of open data indicated in our report, we wanted to check to what extent these - or similar - trends are already present in the global open data community. To this end, we have verified the current activities and future plans of sev…
