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Insights into data.gouv.fr
Last week, the European Data Portal (EDP) and Support Centre for Data Sharing (SCDS) team were joined by Antonin Garrone from Etalab, the organisation that manages the French Open Data Portal (data.gouv.fr), for a Data Talks session. In the session, Antonin shared some of Etalab’s insights from last year and discussed the recent open data efforts in response to COVID-19. As a result of the pandemic, the French Open Data Portal witnessed a surge in data requests, as well as re-use initiatives by the private sector. These initiatives include applications such as dashboards, maps, Twitter bots
ENDORSE: 16 – 19 March 2021
On Tuesday 16 March, the European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics will kick off. This event, organised by the Publications Office of the European Union and the ISA2 Programme, brings together users, practitioners, experts, researchers, EU institutions, and national public services. The conference creates an opportunity for exchanging expertise in tackling current and future issues in interoperability and knowledge management. Sharing best practices and lessons learnt will support the high dynamism and innovation that is at the basis of the digital transformation of public
Skill Up 2021
As part of their Skill Up 2021 month-long event, GrowthTribe is hosting a series of trainings to help data and analytics enthusiasts improve their digital skills. GrowthTribe is a community for small enterprises looking to grow their business and offers support through various learning solutions that focus on the digital skills that are most in demand. From today to 12 March, they will offer several trainings that are specifically tailored to the data analytics community: On 8 March (11:00 CET): A day in the life of a data analyst with Amanda Patist (Self-Service Analytics Coach at Cargill)
DCAT and DCAT-AP trainings
The Publications Office of the European Union invites data providers and data publishers to a series of trainings on the Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), and the Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP), that the EU Open Data Portal and the European Data Portal make use of. A key requirement for data to be re-used is that it is easy to find. Publishing data and describing it well is crucial for people as well as machines to be able to use and re-use it. Data providers and publishers who aim to make data finable and accessible to everyone can greatly benefit from these trainings
Are underwater data centres the future of data storage?
In 2018, Microsoft launched a project called Natick where they dropped a data centre off the coast of Orkney to test if doing so would increase its lifespan and make it more energy-efficient. The data centre Microsoft sank consisted of 855 servers containing 27.6 petabytes of storage. At the end of the experiment, the company concluded that 8 of the servers had failed. On land, the equivalent would have been 64. In terms of lifespan it appeared the experiment was a success. In terms of energy, the advantage of underwater storage becomes clear if we consider cooling. Servers typically generate
Tree of Truth
Last week, the Support Centre for Data Sharing and the team behind the European Data Portal were joined by Mart Mägi from Statistics Estonia discussing the Tree of Truth. Statistics Estonia is the governmental agency that provides reliable, timely, and impartial information about the country, and is a collaboration of the national administration and the Ministry of Finance. Mart Mägi has been the Director General there as of 2017 and presented Tree of Truth, the strategic monitoring tool developed by Statistics Estonia. The tool operates as a dashboard for monitoring how well the country is
Help shape the EU DataViz 2021 Conference!
The Publications Office of the EU organises the first EU Open Data Days: 23 – 25 November
Data Talks: EMT Madrid and e-mobility
On Wednesday 10 March at 11:00 CET, Álvaro Rodríguez from the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) of Madrid will join us and the Support Centre for Data Sharing for a Data Talks session on e-mobility. Álvaro will share his view on e-mobility from experience at the EMT. Namely, he will discuss: What the current state of affairs across Europe is in this field; Which potential avenues for boosting clean e-mobility exist; Examples of how mobility can continue to grow and evolve; Practical steps on what institutions can do and focus on going forward. Register and join the Data Talks. Looking for more
Open Maps for Europe
In the summer of 2021, the Open Maps for Europe project is expected to provide free access to use maps from over 40 countries across Europe. The project is a collaboration of EuroGeographics and the National Geographic Institute (NGI) Belgium, supported by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme of the European Union. A new online interface, created by thinkWhere will make it possible for users to access map, geospatial, and land information. Apart from topographic data, the gateway will also provide a digital elevation model, imagery, a cadastral index map, and a regional gazetteer
Wikidata – the open knowledge base
As part of the Wikimedia movement that aims to “bring free educational content to the world”, Wikipedia, the open encyclopaedia, and Wikidata, the open knowledge base were built in 2001 and 2012, respectively. Wikipedia has become a relatively reliable and accurate source of information, that is often exploited by journalists. In contrast, Wikidata initially looked promising but has not gained much traction yet. The knowledge base provides access to machine readable linked data and can be seen as “a busy train station with millions of links between data points and interlinks to other open