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APIs in Public Administrations: which ones are there and how to use them
The European High-Value Datasets (HVD) regulation, established by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138, consolidates the role of APIs as an essential infrastructure for the reuse of public information, making their availability a legal obligation and not just a good technological practice.
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Service Level Agreements in Open Data Publishing
Since its origins, the open data movement has focused mainly on promoting the openness of data and promoting its reuse. The objective that has articulated most of the initiatives, both public and private, has been to overcome the obstacles to publishing increasingly complete data catalogues and…
Challenges and adjustments in measuring the impact of open data in the age of AI
For more than a decade, open data platforms have measured their impact through relatively stable indicators: number of downloads, web visits, documented reuses, applications or services created based on them, etc. These indicators worked well in an ecosystem where users – companies, journalists…
Urban digital twins and open data
At the crossroads of the 21st century, cities are facing challenges of enormous magnitude. Explosive population growth, rapid urbanization and pressure on natural resources are generating unprecedented demand for innovative solutions to build and manage more efficient, sustainable and livable urban…
Limitations to querying an API
Access to data through APIs has become one of the key pieces of today's digital ecosystem. Public administrations, international organizations and private companies publish information so that third parties can reuse it in applications, analyses or artificial intelligence projects. In this situation…
Metadata to increase the reuse of open data in machine learning
Open data is a central piece of digital innovation around artificial intelligence as it allows, among other things, to train models or evaluate machine learning algorithms. But between "downloading a CSV from a portal" and accessing a dataset ready to apply machine learning techniques , there i…
Real-time geospatial data interoperability: how OGC standards enable real-time data exchange from urban sensors, mobility or weather
Cities, infrastructures and the environment today generate a constant flow of data from sensors, transport networks, weather stations and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, understood as networks of physical devices (digital traffic lights, air quality sensors, etc.) capable of measuring and transm…
Cyber-Physical Systems: the bridge between the real world and open data
We live in an age where more and more phenomena in the physical world can be observed, measured, and analyzed in real time. The temperature of a crop, the air quality of a city, the state of a dam, the flow of traffic or the energy consumption of a building are no longer data that are occasiona…
Quantum computing and open data. The Next Frontier of Knowledge and Technology
Quantum computing promises to solve problems in hours that would take millennia for the world's most powerful supercomputers. From designing new drugs to optimizing more sustainable energy grids, this technology will radically transform our ability to address humanity's most complex challenges. Howe…
Enriched metadata: evolution towards knowledge graphs and ontologies
In any data management environment (companies, public administration, consortia, research projects), having data is not enough: if you don't know what data you have, where it is, what it means, who maintains it, with what quality, when it changed or how it relates to other data, then the value is ve…
