How publishing interoperable, harmonised data can directly benefit its
use and impact
The Irish National Open Data Conference
[https://derilinx.com/event-ireland-national-open-data-conference-2021/]
is an annual event that brings together the open data community to
learn from each other, exchange ideas, and cooperate to advance open
data in Ireland. The 2021 edition focused specifically on data
quality, and how publishing interoperable and harmonised data directly
benefits re-use and impact. 

Open data publishers shared their knowledge on data standards and how
to apply them, on validation and quality monitoring, and showed how to
improve data reusability. Many data re-users joined the event to
express how they experience working with open data, and which
challenges they encounter.

Stefaan Verhulst, co-founder and chief research and development
officer at the GovLab from New York University
[https://thegovlab.org/] delivered the keynote speech for the event,
stating that: 

_“If data is only as valuable and relevant as the questions it may
answer, why do we stay focused on releasing data without a more
rigorous process of defining the questions that matter in society?
This talk [event] will focus on establishing a new ‘science of
questions’ to complement data science and to accelerate the practice
of publishing with a purpose._“

Ireland is a trend-setter in terms of open data, RANKING 2ND IN the
2021 Open Data Maturity assessment
[https://data.europa.eu/en/dashboard/2021].

Missed the Irish National Open Data Conference? You can now watch the
recording
[https://derilinx.com/event-ireland-national-open-data-conference-2021/#video]
and download the presentations
[https://derilinx.com/event-ireland-national-open-data-conference-2021/#agenda]
of the event that took place on 30 November 2021. 

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Publication Date/Time
2022-01-17T11:00:00+00:00
Watch the recording and the presentations of the Irish National Open
Data event