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Encuentro Aporta 2016, good business practices in the field of open data reuse
In the words of Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Mr. Victor Calvo-Sotelo, the open data sector in Spain has a direct economic impact of 1,700 million euros, creating approximately thirteen thousand jobs in the country. Given these data, there is no doubt that t…
Encuentro Aporta 2016, global and local actions aimed at promoting key action areas in the global roadmap
Framed within the program previous to the International Open Data Conference, the agenda of Encuentro Aporta has been aligned to IODC sessions. To that end, the last session was about the global and local actions related to five key areas in the open data roadmap: standards, capacity and skill…
The importance of open data in the national tourism sector
Tourism is a key sector for the Spanish economy and, for this reason, it is necessary to know the factors that affect this industry. Having access to the tourist information -preferences, destinations, spending per visitor... - help improve the business and public policies to make grow the profitabi…
Contribute with your ideas at the International Open Data Conference
Individuals score goals, but teams win games." Zig Ziglar.
Have you already signed up in IODC? Would you like to actively participate during the event? The organization of the International Open Data Conference has launched a call to find volunteers to help during the meeting, responsible for the f…
Open Data and Natural Language Processing Technologies
Nowadays, more than six thousand tweets per second are sent in the world, there are more than nine billion web pages and the European Union translates a volume similar to 1500 quijotes texts per year.
This volume of electronic texts is no longer humanly manageable, but it is imperatively necess…
Workshop on the re-use of information in cultural sector
In June 2013, the European Union published the EU directive 2013/37 amending the scope of the re-use of public sector information including those data belonging to public bodies such as libraries, museums and archives. This legislative change and its implementation meant a great chall…
Open Exchange: International Open Data Unconference
The Open Exchange, also known as the International Open Data Unconference, is a collaborative space where we can exchange ideas on open data in a horizontal manner, capitalising on common knowledge and promoting the participation of attendees. Thus, participants are invited to collaborate…
SNOWED CT: clinic and health data representation
For decades effort are being made to develop vocabularies for representing data related to health: testing, measuring, equipment, clinical data, pathologies and diseases, description of the human body, chemicals, etc. The main objective is to facilitate the exchange of information between administra…
Open data as an effective tool for sustainable development
In August 2014 the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon asked a group of independent experts to develop specific recommendations on how to carry out a data revolution for sustainable development. In the conclusions of the report prepared by the experts, two global challenges were…
Open data & privacy: report by European Data Portal
Although the benefits of open data are already widely known as they have become an important resource to increase citizens' access to information in the public or private sector, and promote economic growth, scientific research and corporate accountability, concern grows when the open publication ma…
