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Spain, one more year among the trend-setting countries in open data
The European data portal, data.europa.eu, has published the Open Data Maturity Index 2024, an annual report that assesses the level of open data maturity of European countries.
The 34 participating countries, including the 27 EU Member States, four candidate countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, A…
European Open Data Portal publishes second volume of its Use Case Observatory
The Use Case Observatory is an initiative led by data.europa.eu, the European Open Data Portal. This is a research project on the economic, governmental, social and environmental impact of open data. The project will run for three years, from 2022 to 2025, during which the European Data Portal will…
Spain, among the European leaders in open data
The European Data Portal, data.europa.eu, has just published its Data Maturity Index, an index that assesses the level of maturity of European countries in terms of open data. For its elaboration, an evaluation survey has been carried out and has been completed by 35 countries, including the 27 Memb…
Use Case Observatory, a European Open Data Portal initiative to measure the impact of open data
Measuring the impact of open data is one of the challenges facing open data initiatives. Ther are a variety of methods, most of which combine quantitative and qualitative analysis in order to understand the value of specific datasets.
In this context, data.europa.eu, the European Open Data Portal, h…
European Portal addresses how to integrate real-time data into an open data platform
The European Directive 2019/1024 on open data and re-use of public sector information emphasises, among many other aspects, the importance of publishing data in real time. In fact, the document talks about dynamic data, which it defines as "documents in digital format, subject to frequent or real-ti…
Spain continues to be among the open data leaders in Europe for another year
For the seventh consecutive year, the European Data Portal has presented its Open Data Maturity assessment. This is a report that analyses a series of indicators to measure the maturity of open data across Europe, in order to understand the progress of each country, make comparisons and find areas f…
EDP publishes new report analyzing Copernicus data use cases
The European Data Portal (EDP) has presented its report "Copernicus data for the open data community", prepared by con.terra as part of the EDP consortium. As we have reported before, Copernicus is the European Union's Earth Observation program that provides accurate, timely and easily accessible in…
The Ontological Engineering Group of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, member of the consortium that will develop a single access point for data from all over Europe
The EU Publications Office has awarded a six-year contract to a consortium including the Ontology Engineering Group of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The aim of the contract is to continue the development of the European Data Portal and to carry out consultancy and research work leading to t…
Spain increases its position by 5% in the EDP barometer and continues to be among the European leaders in open data
The year ends and, as usual, the European Data Portal has just published its Open Data Maturity Report 2020, which measures the progress made by the different European countries in the field of open data. This year Spain has increased its overall score by 5% and remains in the leading positions, as…
The European Data Portal analyses high-value data from the data providers perspective
Last January, the European Data Portal (EDP) launched the report High-value datasets: understanding the perspective of data providers, which aims to delve into the different perceptions and expectations of data providers regarding high-value datasets.
The Directive (EU) 2019/1024 defines hig…
