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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…
Formulas for accelerating data collaboration
After a period in which efforts were focused on releasing data, mainly from the public sector, in conditions in which it could be reused to create value in its different forms (economic, social, cultural, etc.), we are finding increasing activity around collaboration between organizations to solve b…
Conclusions of the Congress on open data and reuse of public sector information
Last September, an international congress was held at the University of Alicante, which addressed some of the main challenges posed by open data and the reuse of public sector information from a legal perspective.
The inaugural conference was given by Kiko Llaneras, who made, from his own journalist…
The latest news in natural language processing: summaries of classic works in just a few hundred words
Artificial intelligence is increasingly present in our lives. However, its presence is increasingly subtle and unnoticed. As a technology matures and permeates society, it becomes more and more transparent, until it becomes completely naturalized. Artificial intelligence is rapidly going down this p…
The importance of anonymization and data privacy
We are in a historical moment, where data has become a key asset for almost any process in our daily lives. There are more and more ways to collect data and more capacity to process and share it, where new technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Linked Data play a…
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…
Open Data and Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, an action plan made up of 17 global goals to eradicate poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity. This is what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In order to measure and evaluate the progress of the SDGs…
The protection of personal data in the draft Data Governance Regulation (Data Governance Act)
Since the initial publication of the draft European Regulation on Data Governance, several steps have been taken during the procedure established for its approval, among which some reports of singular relevance stand out. With regard to the impact of the proposal on the right to the protection of pe…
The value of real-time data through a practical example
Life happens in real time and much of our life, today, takes place in the digital world. Data, our data, is the representation of how we live hybrid experiences between the physical and the virtual. If we want to know what is happening around us, we must analyze the data in real time. In this post,…
New initiatives to open and harness data for health research
In recent months there have been a number of important announcements related to the construction and exploitation of infrastructures and datasets related to health research. These initiatives aim to make data a vital part of a health system that is currently not extracting the maximum possible value…
