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According to the second European Commission's open data maturity report, EU+28 member states have improved 28.6% in their open data policies in the last year. This progress is translated into an overall maturity of open data portals of 64% across Europe...

What do open data and big data have in common? At what point do the open data and open government movements converge? In order to answer these theoretical questions, it would first be necessary to understand each of the three concepts independently. In...

The European Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (RISP), which was revised in 2013, came into forceon 31 December 2003 to include a greater number of entities - museums, libraries and archives - in order to promote the openess and...

Much has been written and discussed in recent years about the many social and economic benefits resulting from open data, but not about the total cost that these open data initiatives may incur. There are also frequent statements that say that the...

As already mentioned  in an earlier post, a few months ago the Spanish Data Protection Agency published its guidelines on the implications of the aforementioned fundamental right in the context of initiatives and projects for the re-use of public...

With the goal of involving and promoting the collaboration of the global open data community, the first open data roadmap was created after the third edition of the International Open Data Conference in Canada in 2015. An action plan that included a set...

The reform of the eGovernment, which came into force only a few months ago, is a far-reaching change not only from the point of view of the technological modernization of the administrative management, but also indirectly of the technical and legal...

With the establishment of the internal market in the European Union, member state administrations need to effectively exchange information beyond their borders in order to be able to comply with public services. Nevertheless, such exchange has posed a...

It has been longer than 15 years since the famous article by Tim Berners Lee in which there is a talk for the first time about the web of data. This article was the germ of the semantic web initiative, an effort to evolve the way in which information was...

1,693 attendees, 89 countries represented, 87 talks and 330 speakers. These are some of the figures that summarize the last edition of the International Open Data Conference that took place in Madrid last October. Recently, the global report of the event...