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The unique relevance of interoperability in the Data Regulation(Data Act)
One of the main objectives of Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2023 on harmonised rules for fair access to and use of data (Data Regulation) is to promote the development of interoperability criteria for data spaces, data processing services and smart cont…
The obligation to provide data to public bodies in exceptional situations in the Data Regulations (Data Act)
The recent Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2023 on harmonised rules for fair access to and use of data (Data Act) introduces important new developments in European legislation to facilitate access to data generated by connected products and rela…
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…
User access to data from connected products and related services in the new European Data Regulation ( Data Act)
The adoption of the Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2023 on harmonised rules for fair access to and use of data (Data Law) is an important step forward in the regulation of the European Union to facilitate data accessibility. This is an initiative already…
Challenges and uncertainties for the deployment of the Data Economy in Europe
Four years after the publication of the European Commission's Communication 'A Data Strategy', the European Commission has published a Communication on the European Commission's 'Data Strategy'A Data Strategy' (February 2020) (February 2020) - setting out the broad outlines of the broad outlines of…
European data regulation faces the challenge of a harmonized application that will boost data sharing
Two of the European Union's most relevant data regulations will soon articulate the legal contours that will delineate the development of the data economy in the coming years. The Data Governance Act (DGA) has been fully applicable since September 24, 2023, while the wording of the Data Act (DA) was…
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…
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…
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…
