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The European Data Portal (EDP) recently conducted a user satisfaction survey and round of interviews to learn more about the user experience of the portal. The aim of the research was to gain insights into users’ needs and wishes of the portal to…

European Data Portal v3.0 In March 2020, the European Data Portal (EDP) launched version 3.0 of the website. Several new features were introduced in this version update, including: A new user interface for easier navigation; A new enhanced EDP home…

Over the coming months, all six reports included in the ”Sustainability of (Open) Data Portals Infrastructure” will be summarized into featured highlights. This particular article will focus on the second report: “Developing Microeconomic Indicators…

Open solar energy data Open energy data is one of the European Data Portal’s (EDP) most popular data domains due to its impact on the energy sector, for example. Within this data category, the EDP has a fair amount of open solar energy data. Solar…

Open data in Europe Most national governments in Europe have developed an open data agenda and have established open data portals supported by solid open data policies and strategies. In 2019, an overall maturity of 74% was achieved by the EU28 in terms…

The European Data Portal (EDP) facilitated an online workshop on “High value datasets: What are the lessons learned from INSPIRE?”. The online workshop started with an introduction to high value datasets (HVDs). We then moved on to an interactive part…

Wine and cheese are popular when enjoying a sunny terrace. France, with its famous grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay and Syrah, is the country with the largest wine production in 2015. Spain was the second largest producer. Note that…

Our world offers outstanding scenery which is worthwhile paying a visit. Unfortunately there is too much to see everything and for some locations it is almost impossible to visit them. Using Open Data, there is now a solution to see this scenery, in the…

The export-to-import ratio is the value of export of goods and services divided by the imports of goods and services. Values higher than one indicate a positive trade balance whereas values smaller than one indicate a negative trade balance (source:…

In total there are currently 582,937 data sets on the European Data Portal. To find your way in this tremendous amount, there are 13 different data domains in which the data sets are divided. In order to make this mapping, the metadata - information about…