News

The Publications Office of the EU organises the first EU Open Data Days: 23 – 25 November

On Wednesday 10 March at 11:00 CET, Álvaro Rodríguez from the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) of Madrid will join us and the Support Centre for Data Sharing for a Data Talks session on e-mobility.

Álvaro will share his view on e-mobility from experience at the EMT. Namely, he will discuss:

• What the current state of affairs across Europe is in this field… more

In the summer of 2021, the Open Maps for Europe project is expected to provide free access to use maps from over 40 countries across Europe. The project is  a collaboration of  EuroGeographics and the National Geographic Institute (… more

As part of the Wikimedia movement that aims to “bring free educational content to the world”, Wikipedia, the open encyclopaedia, and Wikidata, the open knowledge base were built in 2001 and 2012, respectively.

Wikipedia has become a relatively reliable and accurate source of information, that is often exploited by journalists. In contrast, Wikidata… more

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) recently published a report on data availability across humanitarian crises. The goal of this report is to raise awareness on the current available data and to identify which information is lacking by means of the OCHA’s Humanitarian… more

On Wednesday 3 March at 11:00 CET, Antonin Garrone will join the Support Centre for Data Sharing and the team behind the European Data Portal for a Data Talks session on the French Open Data Portal (data.gouv.fr).

Antonin will share experiences from his work at Etalab… more

Earlier this year, a group of researchers from the Central University of Ecuador, the University of Alicante, the University of Southampton, and King’s College London published a review paper on the body of literature on open data: “… more

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the community of SmartAgriHubs – an initiative funded by the EU’s H2020 programme – evaluates agri-food sector developments and puts forwards the lessons learnt in their report: “Analysis of Covid-19: Solutions on the… more

Last week, the join the Support Centre for Data Sharing and the team behind the European Data Portal were joined by Gabriele Ciasullo from AgID (the Agency for Digital Italy) to discuss the Italian Open Data Portal (dati.gov.it).

AgID is the public agency that manages… more

The European Data Portal (EDP) recently published the 19th analytical report: “Understanding supply and demand on the European Data Portal”. The report prepared by the University of Southampton provides a detailed analysis of the relationship between supply and demand of datasets on the EDP.

The report is broken up… more