New edition of the open data contest of Castilla y León

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September 30 2020

The Junta de Castilla y León, through its Ministry of Transparency, Territorial Planning and Foreign Action, organizes, for yet another year, its open data contest. This is the fourth edition, after the appointments of 2013, 2014 and 2018, in which more than 100 projects were presented in total.

The purpose of the contest is to promote the use of the data published in the Castilla y León open data catalog, through the recognition of projects already carried out and the promotion of new ideas.

4 categories available

To the traditional categories of "Ideas", "Products and Services" and "Didactic Resources", this year adds a novelty: the award for "Data Journalism". Each of these categories is detailed below:

Ideas Category: Reward projects that describe an original idea to create studies, services, websites or applications for mobile devices. The idea must be unpublished and not have been previously awarded.
Products and services category: Real projects are sought that provide studies, services, websites or applications for mobile devices, and which are accessible to all citizens via the web through a URL.
Teaching Resources Category: This award is aimed at creating new and innovative open teaching resources (published under Creative Commons licenses) to support classroom teaching.
Category Data journalism: The novelty of this year. It seeks to reward journalistic pieces (written or audiovisual) published in a printed or digital media, including blogs. The works must have been published in the 12 months prior to the call and have not been awarded previously.

In all categories it is necessary that the project -or idea- presented uses at least one data source published in the Open Data Portal of the Junta de Castilla y León. It should be noted that the resource can be exploited using the data analysis portal. These data sets may be combined with others available from other sources, whether public or private, and at local, regional, national or international level.

All applications will be evaluated by a jury, based on criteria such as utility, originality and quality.

What does the prize consist of?

In each category there will be a first and second general prize, and one aimed at students enrolled in university or non-university education, provided it is official. In the case of minors, a teacher from the center to which they belong will be responsible for the project submitted as a candidate.

The award will consist of a financial award and advice on open data. The total amount will be 10,500 euros, which will be distributed among the winners in the 4 categories as follows: