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High-value datasets – forest fires in the EU
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Assessing open data developments across Europe: Discover the Open Data Maturity Report 2022
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High-value datasets – an overview through visualisation
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The acceleration of open data practices in Ukraine
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The Data Governance Act & The Open Data Directive
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Looking back at the European Big Data Value Forum 2020
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INSPIRE 2020 European Data Portal web session on High Value Datasets
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Threats to Food Security: Is Another Pandemic Lingering on the Horizon?
The global food system currently accounts for 10% of world GDP and employs approximately 1,5 billion people. As the system is increasingly globalised, food produce travels across continents before arriving at destination of consumption. This widespread import and export of foods results from consumers’ desires to pick their foods from various assortments all-year round.
Over the past 30 years, food exports have grown six-fold, with four-fifths of people living in part from calories that were produced in another country. For instance, in Western-European supermarkets one can find Mexican limes
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The Power of Data in the Everlasting Battle: Humanity vs. Virus (2/2)
The lessons we learned from previous outbreaks, combined with our current capacity to collect and process data, shape a more data-driven and evidence-based response against COVID-19. In the first part of this data story, we explored the historical role of data in epidemics and pandemics over the past century and highlighted how the role of data in COVID-19 is different. In this second part, we describe what we can learn from this pandemic, including the importance of preserving data, knowledge and experience that can save human lives in the future. The question is: can data help the world
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