Data stories

Open Data Day 2019 This year the international open data community celebrated the Open Data Day again. Open Data Day is an international annual event where data enthusiasts gather to connect and build new solutions to complex social issues by using open data. The event aims to not only show the benefits of open data (such as an increase in efficiency, transparency, innovation and economic growth)...

The festive Christmas season is upon us! With the end of 2018 quickly approaching, the Christmas spirit is spreading and activities for the holiday are underway across Europe. Many European cities come alive with lights and music during the Christmas season to celebrate the holidays. It is the season to spend time with family and friends, enjoy warm food and drinks, buy and exchange gifts and...

Open Data Maturity report 2018 On 19 November 2018, the European Data Portal published their fourth annual report " Open Data Maturity in Europe 2018: New horizons for Open Data driven transformation". The report measures the state-of-play of open data in Europe and shares the progress European countries made with their open data activities against previous years. In addition, the 2018 report...

Insights into a high value data domain Health is defined by the World Health Organisation as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being that goes beyond the absence of disease or infirmity. A person's health is dependent on variables such as their surrounding environment, sleeping pattern, diet, work-life balance and level of physical activity. By neglecting to take care of one's...

Open Data in Smart Cities On 8 November the European Data Portal (EDP) hosted the Webinar " Open Data in Smart Cities" to discuss initiatives across Europe. Open Data is crucial to realising Smart Cities. Open Data allows people to harness the data's full potential and create solution that address issues such as getting information on an event or finding a parking space. This is one of the reasons...

Insights into one of the high value data domains Not all Open Data has the same potential for reuse. The European Data Portal provides thirteen data categories of which certain data categories are more frequently reused than others. On a European level, the European Commission has identified five thematic data domains that are expected to represent those with the highest demand from reusers across...

Between September 18 and September 20th, the INSPIRE 2018 conference took place in Antwerp Belgium. The motto of this year's edition was "INSPIRE users: Make it work together!" Following this motto, the European Data Portal facilitated a thinkathon on Wednesday September 19 th. The thinkathon - an interactive workshop format - created a new 'space' for the conference participants to 'make it work...

New technologies have made it possible to expose cultural heritage on digital platforms. However, until this moment only a small fraction of the cultural institutions worldwide digitised their material and made it openly available. You can read more about the importance of digitisation of open cultural heritage and its re-use. In fostering the process of digitisation of cultural heritage, cultural...

Background and aim of the PSI directive and its revision The aim of the PSI Directive on re-use of Public Sector Information is to foster and guide the re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI). The directive advocates making more public sector data and public research data available at higher quality to increase the reusability. A solid framework guides which data needs to be open and how...

AI and data: a crucial combination Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has the capacity to extract deeper insights from datasets than other techniques. Examples of AI are: speech recognition, natural language, processing, chatbots or voice bots. To get AI applications to work, big sets of high quality (open) data are necessary. But what requirements does this data have to meet? To answer this...