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The first report on ‘The Use Case Observatory’ is now available on the data.europa.eu. This research tracks 30 open data reuse cases from 2022 to 2025 with the goal of assessing how open data creates impact, sharing the challenges and successes of reuse, and contributing to the debate on open data impact assessment methodology. The 30 use cases for the study were selected from over 600 reuse cases collected from the EU Open Data Maturity assessments, EU Datathon and data.europa.eu use case repository. They were grouped according to the four dimensions of open data impact, used also in the Open

Between 6 and 18 November 2022, the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt hosted the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) in Sharm El- Sheikh. At COP 27, countries came together towards achieving the world's collective climate goals as agreed upon under the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Below some of the highlights of the conference in relation to data and its role in the fight against climate change. The Egyptian government launched its first Vulnerability Assessment Map, which reviews and displays climate-related

The Cohesion Open Data Platform by the European Commission presents aggregated information and promotes transparency on how funds are being used by the European Commission to support EU regions in their economic reforms. It provides open data on hundreds of national, regional and interregional programmes with detailed information on cohesion policy, finances (planned and implemented), EU payments made to the Member States and agreed targets. In the past (2014-2020), the platform has proven to be very valuable in promoting transparency regarding finances (budget and expenditure). This is why

On 27 October 2022, the data.europa academy held a webinar on the topic ‘Trends in Geospatial data`. The aim of the webinar was to investigate current emerging trends in the geospatial community and discuss which trends, standards, or ideas are most relevant today. This should eventually facilitate the identification of further opportunities for data.europa.eu. After a brainstorming session on current trends in geospatial community, the webinar went on to discuss two interesting topics for future of data.europa.eu, modernising Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) and its

On 14 September 2022, Ursula Von Der Leyen, President of the European Commission, announced in the annual State of the Union address, her intention to make 2023 the ´European Year of Skills’ to address the current skill shortage in the EU. Currently, in fact, more than three quarters of companies in the EU report difficulties in finding workers with the appropriate skill set. This is even truer when it comes to digital skills, with only 4 out of 10 adults and every third person who works in Europe lacking basic digital skills. Additionally, IT and security specialists are few and the female

To explore the uncharted areas of the world, geospatial data needs to be harvested. But how does the process of geo-harvesting work? This is one of the many questions that will be addressed in the webinar ‘Geospatial harvesting on data.europa.eu’ that will take place on 29 November at 10.00 – 11.00 CET. This webinar will introduce the geospatial data that can be found on data.europa.eu and explain the geo-harvesting process. The speakers - Jan van Zadelhoff and Antje Kügeler from con terra - will closely examine one geospatial dataset on data.europa.eu and explore the journey of its metadata

On 3 November 2022 it was World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD), an annual event hosted on the first Thursday of every November by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). This is a registered company and charity established in 2002 as a collaboration between several agencies operating in the UK and Ireland, among which research institutes such as CERN and the University of London. The goal of WDPD is to celebrate and raise awareness at global level about all things digital preservation and showcase how Digital Preservation enables ‘digits to flourish’. With digital preservation is meant in

The idea of data.europa.eu is to make data available to everyone in a user-friendly way. It should be accessible from everywhere with every device. That’s why we implemented a new design, which is cleaner and makes the page easier to use. Cleaner design The new design includes: A restructured homepage showing a carousel featuring most relevant items, an overview of the main content types a calendar of upcoming events. A clearer menu structure. Easier to understand labels. Dedicated events pages showing all details about the event: a description, the type of event and how to access it. Thanks

In order to unleash its full potential, data needs to be legally open. What does this openness entail from a legal perspective and how can legal openness be optimally achieved? These will be some of the driving questions of our third webinar for data providers ´Understanding open data: legal openness`, which will take place on Friday, 18 November at 10.00 – 11.30 CET. Organisations and governments use open data licenses to explain the conditions under which their data can be used. Data owners need to take decisions regarding legal openness of their data when making it available to the public

On Friday 21 October, the webinar ‘Understanding open data: technical openness’ took place. This webinar was the second of a series of trainings organised by data.europa.eu academy to support data providers in the data publishing process. Specifically, this webinar focused on the need for open data to be technically open, i.e., freely accessible and available in non-proprietary and machine-readable formats. From a technical perspective, openness can also be described according to degrees, following Tim Berners-Lee´s 5-Stars Model, with the first degree meaning that data is available on the web