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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…
Spain, one of countries that is an open data trendsetter
Like every other year, the EU Open Data Portal has just published the results of its report Open Data Maturity 2022. It is a study that assesses the maturity of European countries in the field of open data and it provides an overview of the good practices followed in Eu…
What is a data dictionary and why is it important?
Data has occupied a fundamental place in our society in recent years. New technologies have enabled a data-driven globalization in which everything that happens in the world is interconnected. Using simple techniques, it is possible to extract value from them that was unimaginable just a few years a…
Data vocabularies: why are they important?
Each individual, organization or group uses a number of common words in their daily communication, which would be their personal vocabularies. The greater the number of words we use, the greater our ability to communicate, but it can also be a barrier, increasing the difficulty of understanding othe…
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)
One of the main barriers to the deployment of linked data is the difficulty that data editors have to determine which vocabularies to use to describe their semantics. These vocabularies provide the "semantic glue" that allows simple data to become "meaningful data".
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)…
