The EDP celebrates its 4th anniversary
Publication Date/Time
2019-11-27T09:00:00+00:00
Country
Europe
The European Data Portal is celebrating 4 years of increasing the
impact of open data across Europe
Join us in celebrating four years of open data on the European Data
Portal [https://www.europeandataportal.eu] (EDP)! Thank you to the
open data enthusiasts, publishers, re-users, and to all our readers
and subscribers for following our news, events, articles, and reports.
We invite you to continue sharing your valuable experiences, insights,
and opinions with us.

Four years ago, the EDP beta version was launched and started with
240,000 datasets and the accompanying metadata translated into 3
languages. By the EDP's first anniversary, the portal expanded to
contain 600,000 datasets that were searchable with keywords in 18
languages due to the translation of their metadata.

 

THE EDP TODAY

By November 2019, the EDP attracts on average 23,000 visitors a month
from across the world. The portal contains over 970,000 datasets
covering 35 countries, with 78 catalogues structured in 13 categories.
The metadata is translated to all official EU languages, enabling
multilingual keyword search and ease of access for users.

In addition, the portal offers 16 e-Learning modules
[/elearning/en/#/id/co-01] in six languages - with the addition of
Spanish since earlier this year - that covers open data basics such as
licensing or data formats and guidance on how to harness the value of
open data. Moreover, the EDP has over 550 use case examples
[/en/using-data/use-cases] on how open data is re-used in practice. In
our collection of use cases, we showcase inspiring open data
applications in different sectors, such as health, the environment,
regions and cities, transport, and economy and finance.

Furthermore, the EDP has:

 	* An active social media presence with more than 11,000 followers on
twitter @EU_Dataportal;
 	* An open data news [/en/what-we-do/articles-archive] feed that
promotes data-related events and updates on what governments,
businesses, universities, and institutions are doing around open data;
 	* An open data event calendar [/en/what-we-do/calendar] showing open
data events around the world;
 	* Multiple factsheets and reports
[/en/what-we-do/factsheets-and-reports] on open data publication and
re-use, such as the Open Data Goldbook for Data Managers and Data
Holders
[/sites/default/files/european_data_portal_-_open_data_goldbook.pdf];
 	* Fourteen analytical reports about hot topics in open data; and
 	* The annual Open Data Maturity [/en/dashboard#2018] dashboard and
report.

 

CONTINUE EXPLORING OPEN DATA ON EDP

The EDP is still growing and our team is constantly collaborating with
national governments and open data portals to continue harvesting data
on additional topics, for example transport data and geodata.

Furthermore, we continue to share knowledge and experiences on open
data re-use through news pieces, articles, reports, interviews, and
webinars. For example, our analytical report on Enabling Smart Rural
[/sites/default/files/analytical_report_14_enabling_smart_rural.pdf]
that was published yesterday, discussing open rural data in Europe.
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FIGURE 1: CELEBRATING 4 YEARS OF THE EUROPEAN DATA PORTAL 

To continue improving, we invite you to keep sharing your experiences,
thoughts, and opinions on open data with the EDP via mail
[/en/feedback/form?type=4], Twitter
[http://twitter.com/EU_DataPortal], Facebook
[http://www.facebook.com/EuropeanDataPortal] or LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8428984]. Once again, thank you for
your support and let's continue to harness the potential of open data!
