Find out about the winning projects of the 7th Castile and Leon open data competition

The awards ceremony for the seventh edition of the Castilla y León open data competition was held on Monday 12 February seventh edition of the Castilla y León open data competition, which aims to recognise and value the good use of open dataas well as promoting and encouraging its use and exploitation.

The competition, which has been running since 2016, aims to to raise interest in open data and the and the multiple economic possibilities associated with it. In this way, the initiative, organised by the Regional Ministry of the Presidency of the Junta de Castilla y Leónthe initiative, organised by the Regional Ministry of the Presidency of Castile and Leon, recognises projects that generate ideas, studies, services, websites or mobile applications. As has been the case in previous editions, the common denominator of the entries in this competition is the use of datasets from the Open Data Portal of the Junta de Castilla y León.

Thirty-two entries were submitted in this call, of which eight were awarded in one of the four categories eight of them have been awarded in one of the four categories: Ideas, Products and Services, Didactic Resource and Data Journalism.

Eight award-winning projects in this edition of the competition

The winners in the different categories, chosen from the 32 entries submitted, were:

Category Ideas:

• First prize of 1500 €: Health supply in Castilla y León / Dashboard - Author: Almudena María Moreno Maderuelo.
  
  • Scorecard related to public health in Castilla y León, based on open data.
• Second prize of 500 €: "Geographical names and their oral transmission" - Author: Guillermo Herrero Gacimartín.
  
  • An idea to take advantage of open data to promote the conservation and dissemination of the wealth of geographical names and histories of the peoples of our autonomous community.

Category Products and Services:

• First prize of 2500 €: EnergyCyl. Boosting energy efficiency through energy analysis in Castilla y León  - Author: David Aparicio Sanz.
  
  • Web application that compiles, analyses and provides detailed information on the energy sector in the autonomous community of Castilla y León.
• Second prize 1500 €: Active Territories Project.Webmapping for the characterisation and sustainable promotion of innovative initiatives in the rural environment of Castilla y León - Authors: Víctor Pérez Eguíluz, María A. Castrillo Romón, Elvira Khairulina, José Luis Lalana Soto and Enrique Rodrigo González.
  
  • Website of the "Territorios Activos" project to study innovation in the context of rural environments in the autonomous community of Castilla y León.
• Third prize 500 €: Anomalous pattern monitoring for operational optimisation of logistics infrastructures - Author: Unai Beristain.
  
  • Open data and IoT solution for logistics management and early detection of anomalous patterns in logistics infrastructures. 3D web map based on open data.
• Student prizes of €1500: Offers for young people in Castilla y León - Authors: Ismael Martín Moakil, Alberto Herrero Jiménez, Oscar Antona Gutierrez, Daniel Herranz Herranz, Alberto Aguilar García, Joel Garrido Hernández, Rafael Martín Domínguez and Alonso Gallego. IES Alonso de Madrigal (Ávila).
  
  • App for Android that allows you to find out about discounts and promotions for young people with the Carnet Joven de Castilla y León (Youth Card of Castilla y León)

Didactic Resource Category:

• First prize: 1500 €: CHEST: an application to support the creation and reuse of ubiquitous educational experiences related to cultural heritage around the world - Authors: Pablo García Zarza, Guillermo Vega Gorgojo, Miguel L. Bote Lorenzo, Juan I. Asensio Pérez, Eduardo Gómez Sánchez and Yannis Dimitriadis.
  
  • Application to support teachers in the design and implementation of ubiquitous learning when teaching subjects related to cultural heritage.

Data Journalism Category:

• First prize of 1500 €: what is life like without a bar? How the villages manage to play the game - Authors: Ana Isabel Ruíz Espinar, Marta Ley and Guillermo Cid.
  
  • Journalistic article that analyses how the existence of hotel and catering establishments affects the municipalities of Castilla y León.

The Junta de Castilla y León has published a list of all the projects that entered the competition, available on its website: https://datosabiertos.jcyl.es/web/es/concurso-datos-abiertos/proyectos-presentados.html

During the awards ceremony, the Minister of the Presidency of the Junta de Castilla y León, Luis Miguel González Gago, insisted on the premise of continuing to improve the presentation and accessibility of open data accessibility of open data. In this sense, the aim is to improve the visualisation of the data presented by all the departments of the Junta de Castilla y León, which in a homogeneous and coordinated way will use the same presentation schemes so that they can be easily located, understood and interpreted easily located, understood and interpreted by citizens by citizens. A commitment to interoperability.