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For government data to be easy to use and valuable, it must also be detailed, accurate and high quality. However, both the Web Foundation and Open Knowledge, two of the organizations that actively promote the adoption of open data in the international...

On September 27th and 28th, the Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition (GODAN) held a series of workshops on agriculture and Linked Open Data in Berlin. This event took place during Germany’s G20 Presidency (Presidency they will hold throughout...

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

La Carta Internacional de los Datos Abiertos establece que los datos gubernamentales deberían ser “abiertos por defecto”, para lo cual es imprescindible que se lleve a cabo una gestión eficaz de mismos. Por otro lado, las conclusiones del último...

The Council of the European Union and the Publications Office of the European Union have organised a datathon focused on reusing  data from the European Union's Open Data Portal. This datathon, which starts in October and lasts until 16...

On 20 September, the Debate Workshop on applications of Language Technologies will be held addressing the actions carried out within the Language Technologies Promotion Plan (LT Plan) with tools such as the public procurement of innovation services or...

One of the major concerns of international organisations is the dispersion in the categorisation and indexation of the knowledge created in each of the component parts (such as agencies, units, departments, venues or programmes). This is because, for...

The National Geographic Institute (IGN in Spanish) is a public body belonging to the Ministry of Development  that is responsible for measuring and collecting information on the Earth's surface to make it available to users in the form of official...

The Global Registry of Property Beneficiaries is an initiative originating from civil society that responds to the increasing problem of opacity, and the occasional lack of integrity, in a part of the business world, and the social problems stemming from...

Increasing the flow of open data is one of the major recommendations to accelerate digitalisation in Spain, as outlined in the report ‘Digital reinvention: an opportunity for Spain’, prepared by Fundación Cotec para la Innovación and Digital McKinsey....