European Data Portal releases new version of the website
Publication Date/Time
2019-07-24T09:00:00+00:00
Country
Europe
Discover updates to the EDP website
NEW WEBSITE

The European Data Portal [https://www.europeandataportal.eu/] (EDP)
beta version was launched on November 2015. Since then, a new version
of the website has been released several times a year with the latest
being on 2 MAY 2019, when the EDP launched version 2.3 of the website.

Previous enhancements and extensions of the EDP website included:

 	* the development of an API for editorial content (e.g. the EDP use
cases, news items and events),
 	* harvesting of additional catalogues from geo- and non-geo sources,
 	* a focus on linked metadata (interlinking metadata sets),
 	* enhancing graphical data visualisations and the geo-spatial
visualisation services such as city level base maps that are provided
by Eurostat, and
 	* enhancements of the MQA with the use of W3C Data Quality
Vocabulary (DQV), introducing a scoring metric and enhancing catalogue
reports.

 

EDP VERSION 2.3

The EDP version 2.3 includes several new features - features that are
visible and hidden from end-users. The new features for version 2.3
include:

 	* Implementing a fully DCAT-AP native metadata catalogue that makes
it easier for users to search for data;
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/2019-07-24-edp_01.png]

 	* Going beyond the limitations of CKAN [https://ckan.org/] - an open
source data portal software that acts as a data management system and
makes data accessible by providing tools to streamline publishing,
sharing, finding, and using data;
 	* Drastically improving performance on all metadata related
components, such as metadata catalogue and Metadata Quality Assurance
[https://gitlab.com/european-data-portal/deprecated-components/metadata-quality-assurance]
(MQA) - a monitoring tool for metadata quality;
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/2019-07-24-edp_02.png]

 	* Ensuring that MQA uses SHACL - a World Wide Web Consortium
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium] (W3C)
specification for validating graph-based data against a set of
conditions - validation for DCAT-AP compliance tests;
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/2019-07-24-edp_03.png]

 	* Implementing a SPARQL-Manager
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/sparql-manager/en/] that supports
asynchronous queries and notifies users via mail if a query has been
completed;
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/2019-07-24-edp_04.png]


 	* A complete re-design of the catalogue statistics page; and
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/2019-07-24-edp_05.png]

 	* Implementing a data storage so that datasets can be discoverable
on the EDP, and data can be stored (this will be useful for example
for European Union agencies or EU-funded projects that need to start
quickly publishing their data and that need more time to setup their
own website.

 

Check out the new features on the EDP
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/] website and follow the EDP on
Twitter [https://twitter.com/EU_DataPortal], Facebook
[http://www.facebook.com/EuropeanDataPortal] or LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/10478056/admin/] to stay up to date!
