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3 barriers to PSI re-use in the public sector
Improving citizens experience, promoting collective intelligence and social participation or using predictive analysis to spot social trends and societal needs. These are just some of the benefits of the reuse of public sector information (PSI) in the public sector, according to a report elaborated…
The legal framework of infrastructures and geographic information services: a model to encourage reuse
The geographical information generated in any field, and in particular in the public field, has a great interest both for the specific tasks for which it is generated and maintained and for other applications, in many cases not initially planned, and it has a great potential for the development of t…
You can now participate in BNE collaborative platform
A couple of weeks ago, the Spanish National Library (BNE) presented its collaborative work platform, comunidad.bne.es, developed together with Red.es, in an event that brought together dozens of collaborators interested in our cultural heritage.
Since then, almost 200 people have participated in the…
Open data as a governance tool
Nowadays, there is a reflection that goes through the global open data community about whether the current open data model is already exhausted, making necessary to go further with a new generation of openness. According to David Eaves, one of the greatest achievements in this first era of data open…
The BNE presents its new platform for collaborative work
The National Library of Spain launches on 6 February a collaborative digital project to enrich its collections and catalogues, developed in collaboration with Red.es. The aim is to favour access to and the reuse of public data in an area of great interest to society such as culture.
The project seek…
How to facilitate interoperability in an open data portal: the example of Aragón Open Data
The Open Data initiative of the Government of Aragon was created by an agreement in 2012 with the aim of creating economic value in the ICT Sector through the reuse of public information, the increase of transparency and the promotion of innovation. All this, in order to boost the development of inf…
New, open and reusable BNE datasets are available
Within their strategy framework to promote the reuse of digital heritage, and with the support of Red.es, the Spanish National Library (BNE) has developed a specific data analysis, opening and publication work in the last year. The data are shared in open and reusable formats and following RISP (Reu…
Evaluation of Aporta Initiative in 2018
As every year, it is time to evaluate the activity carried out during the last year.
2018 has been a very positive year for Aporta initiative. On the one hand, our work has been acknowledged, one more year, by the European Data Portal, which consider our country as an open data trend-setter. In addi…
Guidelines for the opening of research data from a legal perspective
One of the main challenges of the research activity is related to the dissemination of the results obtained. For a few years now, special emphasis has been placed on promoting universal access to knowledge "by positioning in favor of policies of open access to scientific information", using the expr…
