38 interviews found
Interview with the organizers of Databeers
Science and technology
Databeers is a non-profit initiative specializing in dynamic events focused on different areas related to the data universe. The objective: to disseminate issues related to data, so fashionable and so habitually plagued with common places, myths and some confusion.
Datos.gob.es have talked with Marcelo Soria Rodríguez and María Sánchez, organizers of Databeers and Databeers Málaga respectively, to…
Interview with María Jesús González-Espejo, expert in open data in the legal sector
Legislation and justice
María Jesús González-Espejo is, with Laura Fauqueur, co-founder of the Institute of Legal Innovation (Instituto de Innovación Legal), a company specialized in supporting professionals, law firms and organizations in innovation and digital transformation projects. For this, they are based on 4 pillars: consulting, training, events and information.
Datos.gob.es has spoken with her to tell us the rol…
Interview with Mariano Rico, responsible for qMe-Aporta, third prize of Desafio Aporta 2017
Science and technology
qMe-Aporta, third prize winner at Desafío Aporta 2017, is a prototype for the intuitive construction of queries, in guided natural language, based on datos.gob.es knowledge. It is a system that guides the user in the construction of the question, showing multiple alternatives to start and continue the question. It not only uses the system terms (metadata), but also the data and its synonyms. These…
Interview with Manuel Noya and José López Veiga, Linknovate's associates
Science and technology
Linknovate, the winning company of the 1st edition of Aporta Awards, is a software provider that tracks all the scientific production published on the internet, ranking the contents according to its own algorithm. Its search engine optimizes the time spent searching for information, facilitating contact between the academic and the business world.
We interviewed Manuel Noya and José López Veiga, L…
Interview with Antonio F. Rodríguez Pascual
Science and technology
Interview with Antonio F. Rodríguez Pascual, Assistant Deputy Director of CNIG.
What is the place of geospatial information within the general open data ecosystem?
To provide some figures, geographic information is inevitably present in seven (election results, national map, weather forecasts, pollutant emissions, location dataset, water quality, land ownership) of the thirteen essentia…
Interview with Josema Alonso, Open Data Program Director at the World Wide Web Foundation
Science and technology
Interview with Josema Alonso, Open Data Program Director at the World Wide Web Foundation.
1. According to your experience with the open data program at the WWW Foundation, what are the greatest impacts of open data publication?
One of the greatest impacts of open data publication is the transparency and accountability of Public Administrations. Moreover, open data enable the creation of added val…
Interview with Dato Capital
Science and technology
Interview with Dato Capital, a multinational company specialised in business services and financial information.
Dato Capital offers users an extensive database of companies and executives. From what sources is the information obtained? Are they public or private?
There are about 100 different sources of information, most of them are official publications of public nature such as new…
Interview with Wendy Carrara
Science and technology
Interview with Wendy Carrara, project manager of the European Data Portal of the European Commission.
What role does the European Commission, especially DG CONNECT, play in the promotion of openness and re-use of public sector information?
The European Commission has been supporting accessibility and re-use of public sector information for quite some time now. Public sector informati…
Entrevista a Carto
Science and technology
Entrevista a Miguel Arias, COO de Carto, una empresa española que desarrolla herramientas de visualización de información geográfica a través de un sistema de creación de mapas que ha revolucionado la cartografía actual.
1. Carto es una herramienta de código abierto que permite transformar los datos geolocalizados en mapas e información de valor. No obstante, ¿cuáles son los ras…
Entrevista a Tabulae
Science and technology
Tabulae es una plataforma de visualización y análisis de datos. Esta herramienta permite convertir la información en conocimiento, al poder crear de forma fácil y autónoma informes, presentaciones, mapas o cuadros de mando como aplicaciones web accesibles desde cualquier dispositivo.
1. ¿Cómo surgió la idea de crear esta plataforma y cómo han sido sus inicios?
Las personas que fo…
