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Natural History Museum in London digitizes and publishes its collections
The Natural History Museum has 80 million specimens, of which only 3,000 are on display for visitors. Their digital collections programme, founded in 2014, aims at making them all accessible on one data platform. Digitising the collection, which documents 4.5 billion years of life, is not only beneficial for the public but valuable for scientific research. The aim is to digitise 20 million samples within five years and publish them on the National History Museum Data Portal. Up to now over four million specimens gathered over the last 250 years are available. The data has already been cited in
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Urban data space
On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the three Fraunhofer institutes FOKUS, IAIS and IML have prepared the study Vorstudie - Datenaustausch und Zusammenarbeit im urbanen Raum that analyses availability, accessibility and quality of open urban data in selected German municipalities and its future usability. The study also examines regulations on data protection, existing use cases and possible stakeholders. Last Friday, Smart City experts and enthusiasts, government representatives and research institutions discussed the results of the study as well as
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International Semantic Web Research School
The International Semantic Web Research School (ISWS) provides the possibility for scientists and researchers, working in both academia and industry, to learn about cutting edge technologies and novel research achievements in the semantic web domain. In an intense one-week course, participants learn methods, theories and research tasks, like machine learning or linked data and application domains like internet of things, digital humanities or industry 4.0. Read more about the ISWS or start developing your digital skills right away with the eLearning modules on the European Data Portal.
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Blue Growth Data Challenge
The Blue Growth Data Challenge was launched by Highlands & Islands Enterprise, the Scottish Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications (SoXSA), the Data Lab and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC). The open innovation competition aims to analyse and design new data products for the benefit of the local and global marine environment, economy and communities. Students, researchers and experts in the field of marine environment are invited to take part in the Blue Growth Data Challenge. Register to take part in the webinar on 30 July and develop ideas until 23 September. The winners will
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Institute Ferran Tallada wins the Barcelona Open Data challenge
The awards of the Barcelona Open Data Challenge with more than 300 participants from among students, teachers and staff from multiple educational institutions announced the challenge's winner. The project presented by Institute Ferran Tallada, called Social cohesion goes through neighbourhoods, won the first price with their tool measuring and comparing the inequalities of the city districts, based on social cohesion indexes. The team explains that social cohesion implies that individuals who live in a territory recognise others as belonging to the same community. Perceived inequalities weaken
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Assembly of European Regions
The Assembly of European Regions (AER) is a network for and of regional and local politicians, addressing political concerns of a pan-European nature and fostering leadership excellence on all levels of governance. The aim is to provide services for better decision-making and increased visibility. Several times per year, the Assembly of European Regions brings together regions, so that they may stand stronger together and leverage best practice exchange. The 2018 AER Autumn Committee Plenaries will take place from 25 to 27 September in Novi Sad, the European Youth Capital 2019 and European
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The Hague measures City Rhythm
Since September 2017, the municipality of The Hague and the Dutch Statistical Institute Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) collaborate in the CBS Urban Data Centre. By linking municipal and CBS data, solutions to social issues such as poverty and changes in health care are researched. The research project City Rhythm explores the potential of using rhythm-analyses in the physical world and in the related data domain in order to enhance social safety in neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. Rhythm in data can connect to location (instead of persons), thus circumventing the issue of privacy
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Finding truth within statistics in Zurich
On 25 and 26 August, Twist, the first statistics Hackdays in Switzerland, will take place at Zurich University. Developers, statisticians, designers, journalists, hackers and citizens of all backgrounds will work in teams with Open Data on the subjects: statistics and emotions, evidence based decision making and fake news. The Twist hackdays are the pre-event of the Swiss Statistical Meeting 2018 in Zurich. Both events focus on the importance and status of evidence-based decision processes. Among others, the events target the question whether decisions too often are made on a purely emotional
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Data for climate resilience
PREPdata is an initiative of The Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP), which was formed in 2016. It is an open-source data platform, providing access to actionable climate, physical and socioeconomic data for decision-makers. Urban planners as well as corporate executives need to decide on their strategies and investments, e.g.: Should farmers in drought-prone regions adopt more efficient irrigation systems or switch to climate-resilient seeds? Should a company facing high energy costs triggered by rising temperatures invest in more affordable renewable energy systems or relocate
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Open Data in Tourism
New technologies are rapidly changing the tourism industry. Data are central assets in management and marketing of tourism destinations and businesses. Data driven services became a prominent tool for tourists to plan their trips. The study " Utilizing open data in tourism" predicts great potential for Open Data to increase innovations and destination management. Several actors already use Open Data to provide services in the tourism industry, e.g. the open service called Helsinki Region Infoshare from the city of Helsinki. Malta and Montenegro, for example, are providing data sets on tourist