First year anniversary of the European Data Portal
Publication Date/Time
2016-11-16T11:00:00+00:00
The European Data Portal was launched a year ago to improve
accessibility to Open Data across Europe. Whatever the language and
whatever the country. Discover what has happened since November 2015
A year ago, the European Data Portal launched its Beta version. In
November 2015, this version referenced 240,000 datasets and had
metadata available in 3 languages. The launch was accompanied by the
publication of a report assessing the economic benefits of Open Data
[/sites/default/files/edp_creating_value_through_open_data.pdf] and an
overview of the state of play of Open Data in Europe
[/sites/default/files/edp_landscaping_insight_report_n1_-_final.pdf].
Because this is what the European Data Portal is all about: creating
value through Open Data and supporting European Countries accelerate
in publishing high quality datasets.

An important milestone for the European Data portal was February 2016,
with the release of Version 1. What was special about Version 1? 3
months after the launch of the Beta version, v1 referenced 415,000
datasets and the portal was available in 6 languages. Several sections
of the portals were reorganised, such as the library
[/en/training/more-training-material], as content was growing. The
source code of the portal was released on GitLab
[https://gitlab.com/groups/european-data-portal]shortly after going
live with v1.

Progressively content grew, new sections were added, such as the
featured data [/en/news-events/news?type=highlights] section to show
insights derived from data made available on the portal. Full access
to the licensing assistant [/en/licence-assistant] was provided to
help users understand licence compatibility. Increasing amount of use
cases [/en/impact-studies/use-cases], new reports on Open Data and
Privacy
[/sites/default/files/open_data_and_privacy_v1_final_clean.pdf] and
Open Data in Cities
[/sites/default/files/edp_analytical_report_n4_-_open_data_in_cities_v1.0_final.pdf]
were published.
In October 2016, more sections were added:

 	* The calendar of events [/en/what-we-do/calendar]
 	* The dashboard on Open Data maturity in Europe [/en/dashboard]
 	* The Metadata Quality dashboard [/mqa?locale=en] was extended
 	* The short video [/en/news/european-data-portal-launches-new-video]
 	* And updates of the eLearning courses [/elearning/en/]

In a year, the portal, initially available in 3 languages is now
available in 18 languages. It now contains 600,000 datasets, 124 use
cases, over 200 articles, dozens of Open Data related events. And more
under preparation for early 2017! Go on! Explore More! [/en]
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/featured-highlight_20161114_image_3.png]