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Can data truly be made available for everyone? In this webinar, Davide Vernassa explains how Knowage, a comprehensive open-source analytics and business intelligence platform, takes on this challenge and aims to make data accessible to visually impaired people.

Are you looking to produce an interactive map to visualise information such as investment or finance data? In this webinar, Steve Albrecht discusses how the European Investment Fund collaborated with The Information Lab to produce an interactive map visualising investments across the EU. You’ll learn how to go from project design to technical realisation and how you and your organisation can become data-driven and resilient in the digital era.

In this digital era, data visualisation is a critical asset and essential tool that allows people to grasp information in a second. This was also true during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic where open governmental data became crucial to sustaining and improving people’s quality of life. In this webinar, Barnaby Skinner highlightsa spectrum of impactful to less efficient examples of data repositories during the COVID-19 pandemic and shares a set of guidelines consisting of nine recommendations for data sharing policies by governmental bodies.

Furthermore, watch the session on 'The European Drug Report: using an open Data approach to improve data visualisation' where experts from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction discuss their experiences with data-driven approaches. They explore how open data has reshaped their reporting strategies, introducing more interactive visualisations. The webinar will also highlight the challenges and opportunities encountered in becoming a more data-centric organization.

Exploiting the full value of open data can require a change in the culture of your organisation or company. This e-learning is all about change management and how it can be implemented to support open data initiatives. You’ll learn what change management is, how you and your organisation can deal with large cultural changes, and what the key elements of change management in open data are.

Discover why open data impact is so important and how it can create governmental, social, environmental, and economic impact. In this lesson, you’ll learn about how to achieve impact through open data projects or initiatives, the possible barriers you and your team can come across, and how to overcome them. By the end of it, you’ll have a better understanding of how to achieve open data impact!

Want to know if your open data is useful and if you can use it for your application or project? This e-learning is all about providing information and tools to determine if you can use and apply your open datasets and in what domain and type of content. You’ll learn the 5 Stars of linked open data, understand how to use it and how to recognise the number of stars in a dataset. By the end of this e-learning, you’ll be a pro at assessing open data usefulness!

Are you ready for the future of open data portals? Through the webinars and reading materials in this lesson, you'll learn about why and how a shift in the design and value proposition of open data portals is needed to prepare for the future. You’ll get a solid understanding of what is expected from open data portals, including what types of tools and features that can be used. By the end of this lesson, you’ll have learned new concepts and ideas on how a data portal should be built.

Sharpen your knowledge about open data platforms! This lesson will help you get up to speed with the meaning of what open data platforms are and why they are important to us. Through the e-learning, you’ll also tap into the future of open data portals. Join us to find out what open data platforms can do for you!

Understanding and measuring the impact of open data is one of the areas that data.euopa.eu explores. Our material introduces different methods that are used to measure the impact of open data in Europe. This is complemented by our reading materials, which dive into assessing the different measurement approaches across European institutions. At the end of the lesson, you’ll be familiar with different methods to measure open data impact!

This tool introduces the SPARQL Knowledge Graph. The wiki page connected to the SPARQL Knowledge Graph has tutorials and video lectures, specifications, endpoints, explanations of SPARQL clauses and functions, syntax, query examples and many other resources.

Learning objectives:
- Using the SPARQL Knowledge Graph