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An important part of the data which is published on the Semantic Web, where resources are identified by URIs, is stored within triple store databases. This data can only be accessed through SPARQL queries via a SPARQL endpoint. Moreover, the URIs used...

Most likely, most of us will know, or at least have heard of blockchain technology, because of its relationship with the most popular cryptocurrency nowadays - Bitcoin. However, blockchain is not a technology born solely to sustain this new digital...

People, governments, economy, infrastructure, environment ... all these elements come together in our cities and they have to make the most of the constant flow of data on their streets to be more efficient. Analysis of the efficiency of services,...

Open data has great potential to improve transparency and accountability or to enhance public services and the creation of new services, but at the same time they also show a less friendly face by increasing our vulnerability and exposing information...

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 "...

The final impact that can be obtained through an open data initiative will ultimately depend on multiple interrelated factors that will be present (or absent) in these initiatives. That is why the GovLab of New York University has analyzed these factors...

On too many occasions, open data initiatives are born in governments as purely technical projects whose purpose is simply creating a data catalog, when, in reality, they should be seen as collaborative transformation projects that take place within...

The research data is very valuable, and its permanent access is one of the greatest challenges for all agents involved in the scientific world: research staff, funding agencies, publishers and academic institutions. The long-term conservation of data and...

The innovative search engine Linknovate and the virtual library Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes have been the two winning projects of the first edition of the Aporta Awards 2017. An initiative promoted by the Secretary of State for the Information...

The public procurement reform that has taken place in Europe has incorporated innovation as a new public policy that must be promoted through contractual tools. Although innovation can be understood as a concept that is difficult to pinpoint, the...