The recording of our first webinar for data providers is out!
On Friday 16 September, the first webinar for data providers
‘Data.europa.eu – The official portal for European data’
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/learning-corner-data-providers]
took place. 

During this webinar, we focused on data.europa.eu as the single point
of access to European open data, with over 1.4 million datasets from
EU institutions, European countries and other international
organisations. We defined open data as _‘any data that is made
available with an open licence’_ or, following the definition of the
Open Knowledge Foundation [https://okfn.org/], _‘data that can be
freely used, re-used and distributed by anyone’_. To ensure open
data is consumable, the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility,
Interoperability, and Reuse) principles are followed. 

We outlined several reasons for why open data is important: 

 	* it enhances transparency of the democratic processes, by enabling
the participation of any sector of the civil society;
 	* it supports the creation of new products and services, and drives
innovation;
 	* it increases the efficiency and effectiveness of governmental
services;
 	* It shapes new knowledge by combining different data sources. 

Yet, _´open data is only useful if it is of good quality`. _This is
why data.europa.eu also places particular attention on data quality
through – among others – its ´Data Quality Guidelines`
[https://doi.org/10.2830/333095] and quality-related trainings
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/data-and-metadata-quality-improving-your-data-publishing-approach].


Additionally to being a catalogue of metadata, data.europa.eu offers
weekly news pieces [https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/news] and
monthly data stories
[https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/datastories] that discuss open
data-focused topics. Moreover, the portal publishes a yearly study on
the state of maturity of open data across Europe along four
dimensions: policy, impact, portal, and quality. The 2022 edition of
the report ´Open Data Maturity
[https://data.europa.eu/en/impact-studies/open-data-maturity]` will be
published in December. 

Through the webinars organised under the data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy], the portal aims to improve the
open data skills across different sectors of our society and to raise
awareness about data literacy and open data re-use. A further example
of how data.europa.eu encourages re-use is through the EU Datathon
[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon] competition, which sees
different teams of re-users developing innovative open data-driven
applications along specific themes. This year´s competition focused
on digital transformation, the EU Green Deal, and public procurement.
The final event of the 2022 EU Datathon where the winners will be
announced will take place on 20 October 2022 and you can already
register here.
[https://scic.ec.europa.eu/ew/register/dgscic/EU_Datathon_2022/e/lk/g/43770/k/]

Curious to learn more about data.europa.eu? Then watch the recording
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s9Yol8GsSc] of the webinar and stay
tuned for the next webinars for data providers. You can find the
schedule and topics in the ´Learning corner for data providers`.
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/learning-corner-data-providers]

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[https://data.europa.eu/en/newsletter].

 

Publication Date/Time
2022-09-26T07:00:00+00:00
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