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This year, the Asociación Multisectorial de la Información (Asedie) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Asedie is an association of companies that are dedicated to the use, re-use and distribution of data. The association aims to create goods and services that contribute to and boost the Spanish and European economy.

Since 1999, Asedie has represented the needs of the Infomediary Sector and has spearheaded the collaboration between… more

Water

Water is a dynamic medium that continuously changes from liquid, to solid, to gas and enables life on our earth. Water is one of the three basic needs for humans as it plays a critical role in delivering nutrients and oxygen, regulating the body temperature, and helping in fighting illness and supporting brain function.

Due to the importance of water, data that measures its… more

Agriculture

The term agriculture, otherwise known as farming, refers to the process of producing food, feed, fibre, and other desired products that can be gained by cultivating certain plants and raising domesticated animals (livestock) and is the benchmark of the agriculture sector.

The agriculture sector is one of the most important sectors in an economy due to its impact and… more

Open food data

The European Data Portal (EDP) offers over 79,000 datasets related to food. For example:

• 'Code Embale Open Fact Food (EMB)' from data.gouv.fr - a dataset that lists all the packaging codes for… more

Open regions and cities data

The European Data Portal (EDP) is an initiative by the European Commission that aims to increase the impact of open data by making data easy to find and re-use for everyone. The portal harvests metadata from EU Member States and enables users to discover the data they need by making its metadata searchable in all the EU supported languages. In addition to making the data searchable, the EDP… more

New website

The European Data Portal (EDP) beta version was launched on November 2015. Since then, a new version of the website has been released several times a year with the latest being on 2 May 2019, when the EDP launched version 2.3 of the website.

Previous enhancements and extensions of the EDP website included:

• the development of an API for editorial content (e.g. the EDP… more

Open education data

Open education data can refer to open data produced by institutions focusing on education, such as schools and universities. Examples of these datasets are:

• Administrative data, including reference data such as the location of an academic institution and attendance information;
• Internal data, including staff names, available… more

On 13 June 2019, the EU Datathon 2019 was held in Brussels, Belgium. The annual event aims to stimulate the use and re-use of open data and supports participants in showcasing their data skills and innovative ideas. This year was the third edition of the EU Datathon competition and it was hosted by the Publications Office of the… more

Open data maturity

Open data has been identified as a fundamental resource for governments, businesses and civil society. In 2015, we launched the European Data Portal to improve access to open data from European countries and to foster high-quality public data publication at national, regional, and local level. Within this scope, we have been conducting our annual landscaping exercise to assess European countries'… more

Business-to-Government (B2G) Data Sharing

On 23 May the European Data Portal (EDP) hosted the webinar "Business-to-Government (B2G) Data Sharing" to discuss B2G data sharing initiatives in Europe and beyond. This webinar complements the EDP's analytical report on B2G Data Sharing published earlier this… more