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EOSC: the European federated infrastructure that accelerates open science
In recent years, the need for the international scientific community to have agile mechanisms to share research results in order to respond to challenges such as pandemics, the climate crisis, biodiversity loss or the energy transition has become clear. In this sense, R+D tasks have become…
Observable + D3.js: the ideal open-source combination for your data visualizations
Data visualizations act as bridges between complex information and human understanding. A well-designed graph can communicate in seconds data that would take minutes or even hours to decipher in tabular format. What's more, interactive visualizations allow each user to explore data from their o…
Building the European Health Data Space (EHDS)
The construction of the ecosystem for the secondary use of e-health data in the European Health Data Space (EHDS) poses a significant scenario of opportunities for Spanish research, innovation and entrepreneurship. To this end, the European Union is promoting a multitude of strategic proje…
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…
European good practices in open data: lessons from the Open Data Maturity Report 2025
The Open Data Maturity Report is an annual evaluation that since 2015 has analysed the development and evolution of open data initiatives in the European Union. Coordinated by the European Data Portal (data.europa.eu) and carried out in collaboration with the European Commission, thi…
Redefining the regulatory framework on data in the context of artificial intelligence: the renewed European Union Strategy
La The European Commission has recently presented the document setting out a new EU Strategy in the field of data. Among other ambitious objectives, this initiative aims to address a transcendental challenge in the era of generative artificial intelligence: the insufficient availability of…
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…
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team: tools to map and save lives
In 2010, following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of humanitarian organizations arrived in the country ready to help. They encountered an unexpected obstacle: there were no updated maps. Without reliable geographic information, coordinating resources, locating isolated communities, or…
Data pooling: the collective driver of the new data union strategy
In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), data has ceased to be simple records and has become the essential fuel of innovation. However, for this fuel to really drive new services, more effective public policies or advanced AI models, it is not enough to have large volumes of information: the data…
