Events

For the eighth consecutive year, NASA organizes Space Apps, an international hackathon, where participating teams will have to solve real challenges related to Earth observation. What does it consist of? Programmers, scientists, storytellers, designers, and anyone interested in space science and data exploration can share their knowledge to design innovative solutions that respond to issues related to different categories: Earth's oceans Our moon Planets near and far To the stars Living...

The event, framed in the International Congress of Transparency, will take place as a crown jewel of the first day of this congress, on September 30, in Le Grand Café Center of Malaga. The event will offer presentations by journalists, technologists, activists and other expert profiles on this subject, networking and beer for free to attendees. The XVI edition of Databeers Málaga will take place on Monday, September 30, starting at 7.30 pm, at Le Grand Café Centro, in the heart of Malaga. The capacity...

On September 25, the Secretary of State for Digital Advance organizes the Infoday about language technologies. The event is part of the XXXV International Conference of the SEPLN (Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing) and the dissemination activities of the Plan for the Advancement of Language Technologies, whose objective is to promote the development of natural language processing and automatic translation in Spanish and co-official languages. With this event, the organizers want to show...

The new school year has already begun. While students are gradually returning to schools, companies and organizations are also recovering their activity. The last quarter of the year is chosen by a large number of organizations to launch events that help us to better understand the universe of open data, bringing us success stories and giving us the opportunity to discuss the future challenges. In datos.gob.es we have compiled some of these events: On September 14, the Tech.Party 2019 is held at...

Based on the idea that “the future reusers are, nowadays, in schools”, the Barcelona City Council organizes, once again, the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge, a contest with a high social impact whose main objective is to bring open data benefits closer to students and thus increase the number of people with open data knowledge and skills, taking advantage of all the benefits that entails. And it is aimed at the youngest citizens, from very soon. What does it consist of? The Barcelona Dades Obertes...

The agri-food and forestry sector is one of the main generators of rural wealth. Improving the efficiency of this sector, through digitization, is essential to promote entrepreneurship and address the challenges of rural areas, such as low population density or aging. In this context, the Aporta Initiative organizes, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, a working session that seeks to support the digital transformation of the agricultural sector, with the focus on the...

On June 12, the European Data Portal (EDP) organizes a webinar to explain the main conclusions of its latest report, entitled Analytical Report 13: Open Data best practices in Europe's Top Performers. This report analyses the success factors shared by the leading countries of open data in Europe: Spain, Ireland and France. These three countries have been chosen for their top positions in the EDP open data maturity ranking. They are prescribers in terms of open data due to their high performance and...

The European Data Portal (EDP) organizes a webinar to delve into data sharing between companies and public administrations (Business to Government or B2G) on 23 May. The main conclusions of the last EDP report -entitled Analytical Report 12: Business-to-Government Data Sharing- will be shared in the webinar, whose objective is to promote the supply of private sector data to public bodies under preferential conditions for its re-use. Specifically, during the webinar the following issues will be analyzed...

A new edition of the Aporta Challenge is already underway. As the previous edition, new ideas and prototypes based on open data are sought to help improve the efficiency of a specific sector. In this case, the agri-food, forestry and rural sector have been chosen, due to its fundamental role in the creation of wealth and employment. Why is the agri-food, forestry and rural sector important? Currently, this sector is facing a series of challenges that affect all us and, ultimately, the future of...

After the success of the first edition, TourismKG, the international workshop on knowledge graphs on travel and tourism, returns. If last year, the workshop take place during the ICWE congress (International Conference on Web Engineering), this year the appointment will be hold during the 22nd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2019), in Seville from June 26 to 28. The workshop is organized by Ontology Engineering Group, responsible for DBpedia del español, TAIGER and ODI...