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The EU Member States are making visible progress with regard to their Open Data transformation journey, with many Open Data initiatives as well as portals being launched each year. However in order to ensure such data infrastructures remain relevant over time, a series of aspects should be considered and embedded in the design stages of any Open Data portal. Portals play an essential role in the...

Over the years, bicycle touring has been becoming an increasingly popular alternative for tourists who are visiting different cities in Europe. More and more European cities offer bike rental services allowing tourists to discover the city in an environmental-friendly and healthy way. Open Data can provide a further stimulus to the use of bicycles in general and more specifically to bicycle...

The Connecting Europe Facility programme supports a Digital Service Infrastructure on Open Data €4.5 M available in a call for proposals for generating value through the re-use of Public Sector Information. Proposals can be submitted until 19/1/2016. The European Union launched on 30/10/2015 a call for proposals making EU funding available under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) through grants...

"Data is the new oil" is a quote for example from Neelie Kroes, former Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich or the Economist. The analogy of data and oil stems from the British mathematician Clive Humby and is based on the fact that both data and oil need a certain amount of effort before their full potential can be leveraged. Oil...

The European Data Portal (EDP) initiative does research on current topics related to open data and publishes the findings, for example, in form of analytical reports. The analytical report no 11 focuses on the challenges of PSI re-use in the public sector and gives recommendations on how to support and realise successful PSI re-use in the public sector. We thank the research participants, who...

Introducing the European Data Portal Join us in celebrating three years of open data on the European Data Portal (EDP). Thank you to all open data enthusiast, publishers and re-users for creating impact with open data! Thanks also to our readers and subscribers for following our news, events, articles and reports and for sharing your valuable experiences, insights and opinions with us. The EDP is...

Clean air is crucial for us, however, the significance of it will rise in the future Air is essential for our daily survival - it is more important than food or water for us. As urbanisation processes, more and more people and industries are moving into the cities, which has an impact on urban air quality. Forecasts predict that the world population will increase from seven billion to almost ten...

Digitisation makes cities smart Service orientation becomes more and more important - also for cities. Digital urban solutions are increasingly demanded. Emerging technologies offer new services to cities and its citizens. Smart Cities are no future scenario anymore but describe cities that use innovative technologies to create added value for the population and the economy. The leading Smart City...

What is data driven journalism? " The goal is to explain the news and tell the stories in the most attractive, accurate and simple way as possible." Jaime Serra, Data Journalist, La Vanguardia. Data journalists are professionals with a sense for news and the ability to write compelling stories using data. Data can be a source of information for data journalists and it can be used to compare...

The mechanisms of value of Open Data operate on multiple levels. Multiple Open Data benefits can be outlined, including transparency, increased government effectiveness and efficiency, increased participation and engagement and the release of social and commercial value through innovation. Regarding the latter, Open Data is increasingly connected to the creation of new products and services, as...