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FAIR Principles: Good Practices for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship
Our lives are surrounded by data and we are immersed in its culture: open data, big data, linked data… The growth of the capacity to generate, store and process data is never ending and is accompanied by the generalization of the use of technological applications (for example, data created in a spec…
Tools for the Management of Controlled Vocabularies with SKOS Suppor
In order to organize (classify, describe, index) knowledge, there are several knowledge organization tools that exist. The following is a summary of them, organized from the simplest (the least formalized and with fewer rules) to the most complex (more formalized and with more rules): controlled voc…
G20 International Event on Agriculture and Linked Open Data
On September 27th and 28th, the Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition (GODAN) held a series of workshops on agriculture and Linked Open Data in Berlin. This event took place during Germany’s G20 Presidency (Presidency they will hold throughout 2017) as part of the meeting of the G20 itsel…
Taxonomies and Thesauri: Knowledge Organization Tools
In order to organize (classify, describe, index) knowledge, several knowledge organization tools exist. Below is a summary of them, organized from the simplest (the least formalized and with fewer rules) to the more complex (more formalized and with more rules):
Controlled vocabularies
Taxonomies
T…
2017 EU DATATHON: Reusing European Union Open Data for Employment and Growth
The Council of the European Union and the Publications Office of the European Union have organised a datathon focused on reusing data from the European Union's Open Data Portal. This datathon, which starts in October and lasts until 16 November, is focused on promoting the reuse of open d…
El problema de la gestión en los datos abiertos
La Carta Internacional de los Datos Abiertos establece que los datos gubernamentales deberían ser “abiertos por defecto”, para lo cual es imprescindible que se lleve a cabo una gestión eficaz de mismos. Por otro lado, las conclusiones del último Barómetro de los datos abiertos nos muestran la necesi…
Challenges and advances in natural language processing
On 20 September, the Debate Workshop on applications of Language Technologies will be held addressing the actions carried out within the Language Technologies Promotion Plan (LT Plan) with tools such as the public procurement of innovation services or participation in European programmes. The d…
AGROVOC: Thesaurus for the classification of agricultural knowledge
One of the major concerns of international organisations is the dispersion in the categorisation and indexation of the knowledge created in each of the component parts (such as agencies, units, departments, venues or programmes). This is because, for example, when a person in a department wants to s…
Applications to view, query, compare and use geographic information
The National Geographic Institute (IGN in Spanish) is a public body belonging to the Ministry of Development that is responsible for measuring and collecting information on the Earth's surface to make it available to users in the form of official maps, cartography, images, data files, web serv…
Understanding corporate structures through open data: Open Ownership
The Global Registry of Property Beneficiaries is an initiative originating from civil society that responds to the increasing problem of opacity, and the occasional lack of integrity, in a part of the business world, and the social problems stemming from it.
The open and free registry will use data…
