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For the fourth consecutive year, the European Data Portal has published the European Open Data Maturity Landscaping 2018. This study gathers the current situation and the progress made by the different European countries in terms of open data....

The revelations about the security and privacy gaps that have took place lately in big companies that we all use almost daily, such as Google or Facebook (once again), are unfortunately more and more frequent. If we can get out something positive of all...

On October 23, the 10th International Conference on Public Information Reuse took place at the headquarters of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection in Madrid. On this occasion, the chosen theme was "Information, an essential resource for economic...

An increasing number of governments support the development of initiatives to favor public information opening, due to its multiple benefits. One example is Open Data Euskadi, the open data initiative of Basque Government. Open Data Euskadi works...

The National Library of Spain has started, with the support of Red.es, their first massive digitization project focused on magnetic audio and video media. The institution plans to digitize more than 650,000 minutes of images and audio, including 4,800...

Last September, the last edition of Open Data Barometer was presented by the World Wide Web Foundation. The report measures how some governments, not including Spain, publish and use open data to facilitate accountability, boost innovation and generate...

One of the main debates in the Internet legal field is related to intellectual property. Only a few days ago, the European Parliament approved a proposal for a copyright reform in order to adapt the regulation to technological uniqueness of the Internet...

Open data has direct benefits in the economy, as it contributes to improve income, create jobs and save costs. Thanks to open data, companies can not only acquire a greater knowledge about their environment and make better decisions, but also use open...

The national statistical agencies are an indispensable element for information system of a democratic society. They are one of the main bodies responsible for producing, collecting, classifying, publishing and disseminating high value data at government...

On the internet we can find thousands of data repositories. Those interested in locating certain information have to navigate between multiple sources (national repositories, public organizations or private institutions platforms, digital libraries,...