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Join the LOD2 webinar – and learn about CKAN
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As part of the LOD2 webinar series that brings Linked (Open) Data tools & service webinars to the interested audience, we at Open Knowledge Foundation will be hosting the next session that showcases the CKAN open-source data platform in...
European Data Forum 2013
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A truly European Big Data community is on the rise Press information 22.01.2013 for immediate release The European Data Forum (EDF) is an annual meeting place for industry, researchers, policy makers...
European Flagship Project for Linked Open Data releases an new toolset to exploit the potential of data
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Official Press release from 7.12.2012: We are living in a time of an emerging new data economy: the amount of data is growing rapidly and the need for more efficient data management is rising to really exploit the potential of data. Linked Open Data...
3rd PUBLINK Linked Data publishing and tooling support action
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After more than a dozen small PUBLINK projects have been graduated in the last two years , the LOD2 consortium is launching a third round, which also includes specific support for Linked Data tool developers, who want to integrate their tool with the...
Slides from WP9 presentation at LOD2 Luxembourg Review Meeting, September 2012
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Here are the slides from our presentation on Work Package 9 (PublicData.eu) from our second year Review Meeting in Luxembourg in September:...
The Open Data Challenge – organising Europe’s biggest open data competition
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Over a year on from the Open Data Challenge many people still ask us about how we organised the competition. Hence we’ve put together a brief slide deck which takes a brief look behind the scenes as to how we organised it. It includes some advi...
Hosting LOD2 in Cambridge
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The CKAN-powered data portal at publicdata.eu aggregates information on data from about 20 data portals across Europe. It’s part of the EU-funded LOD2 project on Linked Open Data, which held its regular plenary meeting over three days last week...
Neelie Kroes, EC Commissioner for the Digital Agenda mentions LOD2 project in OKFestival opening speech
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Cross posted from the main LOD2 blog. Post written by Martin Kaltenböck of the Semantic Web Company. Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda in Europe gave this week an opening speech to the OK...
New in CKAN: integrated Linked Data output
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The CKAN data portal software now has fully integrated output of metadata as RDF linked data, in XML or N3 format. To see it at work, simply add the appropriate prefix to the URL for a dataset. For example, here is a dataset on the DataHub (as it hap...
LOD2 plenary, Vienna, 21-3 March 2012
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I am in Vienna, along with my colleague Ira, for a plenary meeting of the assorted partners of the LOD2 project. LOD2 is an EU-funded research project on Linked Open Data, the vision of an interlinked web of data known to many from Tim Berners-Lee...
Examples of EU companies using open data?
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Last week we started a spreadsheet to compile examples of EU companies using open data. There are currently 46 examples from 11 EU Member States. You can view the spreadsheet here. In the first instance we want the list to be illustrative rather than...
Slides from WP9 presentation at LOD2 Review Meeting, September 2011
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Here are the slides from our presentation on Work Package 9 (PublicData.eu) from our first year Review Meeting in Luxembourg in September: LOD2 WP9 (PublicData.eu) – Review Meeting 2011 View more presentations from Jonathan Gray...
Coverage of the Open Data Challenge Prize Ceremony
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Last week Neelie Kroes handed out prizes to the 1st Prize winners of the Open Data Challenge at the first European Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels. You can find a full list of the winners at OpenDataChallenge.org. I just published a piece in the...
publicdata.eu: Data, Apps and 800,000 Triples
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Today we’re happy to release a first beta of publicdata.eu, the Open Knowledge Foundation’s European-level data registry. After releasing an experimental data catalogue federation and scraping frontend earlier this year, this is the first...
The Open Data Challenge is over: 430 entries from 24 EU Member States!
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The Open Data Challenge, Europe’s biggest open data competition, is now over! From the website: There were a total of 430 entries from 24 EU Member States. Our amazing panel of judges are currently scouring through the entries to select the win...
Next steps on datacatalogs.org
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Background Anyone who follows the #opendata hashtag on Twitter, or who hangs out on the Open Knowledge Foundation’s open-government mailing list will know that nearly every week there is a new local, regional, or national data catalogue being a...
Notes from “Open Government in Europe” workshop, Budapest, 19th May 2011
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A few weeks ago we had a small workshop on “Open Government Data in Europe” in Budapest. The meeting brought together representatives from the European Commission, the Hungarian government, and other EU member states to discuss the curren...
Judges and award ceremony for the Open Data Challenge
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With just over a week left to enter the Open Data Challenge, we’re busy organising our fantastic panel of judges to help them to select the best entries to Europe’s biggest open data competition. The prizes will be handed out in a plenary...
Promotional material for the Open Data Challenge
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There are now 30 days left to enter the Open Data Challenge – Europe’s biggest open data competition. To help to publicise the competition in the final few weeks before it closes, we’ve produced a variety of promotional materials, i...
Notes from Data Catalogues Interoperability workshop, Edinburgh, 3-4th May 2011
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The Data Catalogue Interoperability Workshop was a two day meeting at the Informatics Forum in Edinburgh on 3-4th May 2011, for those who administer open data catalogues (particularly those located within Europe). The meeting included discussion, des...
