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Beyond the already known potential privacy problems associated with open data, which has already been debated in depth and for which practical solutions and guides are already being offered, a more general and complementary debate has recently emerged...

If we analyze it with perspective, the concept of open data is not so revolutionary or novel in itself. On one hand, the philosophy of openness and/ or re-use on which open data are based had long been established between us before its formal definition...

Data analysis helps all types of entities and public and private organizations to make better evidence-based decisions more quickly and effectively. In today’s world, this area is constantly evolving: more and more data is available and its momentum...

Here we review the main conclusions taken from the 7th Aporta Meeting, which took place on October 24 at the headquarters of SESIAD and where national and international experts from the open data sector met. With the title ´The value of data in the...

The European Union has just made public a paper that, several years of the 2013 reform bring in force, proposes how to tackle overcoming the barriers and difficulties that have been detected since. Recognising the important advance that has taken place...

The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a global campaign established by high level bodies who work in international development cooperation within the “Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness”, held in Accra, Ghana, in 2008. It is a...

Ten teams, five months of hard work, a large dose of enthusiasm and ten final prototypes where open data, technology, public administrations, re-use and innovation have gone hand in hand. At the end of October at the headquarters of red.esthe...

One of the pioneering areas in the reuse of information from the public sector has been that of judicial information. Even before the irruption of information and communication technologies, professionals in this field were already proficient in...

Our lives are surrounded by data and we are immersed in its culture: open data, big data, linked data… The growth of the capacity to generate, store and process data is never ending and is accompanied by the generalization of the use of technological...

In order to organize (classify, describe, index) knowledge, there are several knowledge organization tools that exist. The following is a summary of them, organized from the simplest (the least formalized and with fewer rules) to the most complex (more...