The EU DataViz 2019, organised by the Publications Office of the European Union, took place at the European Convention Center in Luxembourg on 12 November. The event brought together more than 500 international experts, professionals, and solution-seekers from around the world and addressed the specific needs of the public sector data visualisation community. Several European Directorate Generals (DGs) and services of the European Commission were actively involved with presentations, keynote speeches, and moderation of thematic sessions. The EU DataViz 2019 programme featured inspirational

European Big Data Value Forum The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2019 was held on 14 to 16 October in Helsinki, Finland and was organised by Big Data Value Association (BDVA) in collaboration with the European Commission and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. The EBDVF is an annual European event that gathers industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy makers from across Europe to discuss the different challenges and opportunities the European data economy is facing. This year, the theme was "Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Transforming Business

Agriculture The term agriculture, otherwise known as farming, refers to the process of producing food, feed, fibre, and other desired products that can be gained by cultivating certain plants and raising domesticated animals (livestock) and is the benchmark of the agriculture sector. The agriculture sector is one of the most important sectors in an economy due to its impact and influence on other sectors and people's day-to-day life. There are several reasons why this sector is the backbone of an economy, for example, the agriculture sector: provides food and fodder to feed people and

New website The European Data Portal (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

Introducing the Open Data Maturity 2018 Report's Top Three Performers The European Data Portal's (EDP's) recently published analytical report on Open Data best practices in Europe's Top Three Performers offers a practical guidebook for policy makers and portal managers towards a successful open data transformation at national level. There has been a steady increase of interest in open data topics and the learnings from European best practices by national decision-makers across Europe. This report analyses the success factors that have led to visible progress in some EU Member states, captures

Open data maturity Open data has been identified as a fundamental resource for governments, businesses and civil society. In 2015, we launched the European Data Portal to improve access to open data from European countries and to foster high-quality public data publication at national, regional, and local level. Within this scope, we have been conducting our annual landscaping exercise to assess European countries' maturity in terms of open data. This landscaping exercise offers a benchmark to assess what the state of play of open data in Europe is, where European countries stand with regard

Business-to-Government (B2G) Data Sharing On 23 May the European Data Portal (EDP) hosted the webinar " Business-to-Government (B2G) Data Sharing" to discuss B2G data sharing initiatives in Europe and beyond. This webinar complements the EDP's analytical report on B2G Data Sharing published earlier this year. Data sharing is a key enabler of growth, employment and competitiveness for Europe and the Digital Single Market envisaged by the European Union. The non-rivalrous nature of data, combined with technological innovations such as the availability of big data analysis and artificial

The Analytical Report mentioned in this article has now been published. See the updated Featured Highlight here Introducing the Open Data Maturity 2018 Report's Top Three Performers Next week, the European Data Portal (EDP) will publish a new analytical report on Open Data best practices in Europe's Top Three Performers. This report offers a practical guidebook for policy makers and portal managers towards a successful open data transformation at national level. There has been a steady increase of interest in open data topics and the learnings from European best practices by national decision

Open energy data Open energy data is one of the European Data Portal's (EDP) most popular data domains due to its implications in the energy and environmental sector. With growing awareness of topics such as climate change and renewable resources and initiatives to increase energy efficiency, governments around the world are introducing directives and targets focusing on energy data. One example is the European Union Renewable Energy Directive, which aims to increase the use of renewable energy throughout Europe with energy data - i.e. energy production per solar panel unit and wind energy

Introduction to B2G data sharing Data sharing is a key enabler of growth, employment and competitiveness for Europe and the Digital Single Market envisaged by the European Union. The non-rivalrous nature of data, combined with technological innovations such as the availability of big data analysis and artificial intelligence applications, enable maximising the value of data. Re-using data can save costs, time and lives. The benefits from data re-use are not reserved to the private sector. In fact, to become more cost-efficient and provide effective services for citizens, public sector bodies