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Important Upgrade for PublicData.eu

Posted on: 12-02-2013

The PublicData.eu portal, which is the initial stage for a EU wide general open government data portal, has received an important upgrade.

Next to personalization functionality (allowing you to 'track' data sets for instance), a key new addition is the generation of linked data by the platform itself. By adding a new CSV to RDF convertor, many data sets that were not available as linked data before, now are being provided as linked data. "This addition means that the site does not only collect data from different European catalogues...

17th PSI Group Meeting Agenda Published

Posted on: 18-01-2013

The PSI Group is meeting on 24 January in Luxembourg at the premises of the Eureopean Commission. This meeting of national experts on PSI is the 17th such meeting.

The meeting will be chaired by Yvo Volman, deputy head of the data value chain unit of DG CONNECT.

Topics on the agenda are:

LOD2 Webinars in April

Posted on: 16-04-2012

The LOD2 team has announced 2 free Linked Open Data tool webinars for April 2012. You can find the recorded LOD2 webinars and respective slides here: http://lod2.eu/BlogPost/webinar-series

Linked Data and SKOS, 18.04.2012, 05.00pm CET

Knowledge organization systems like taxonomies or thesauri can benefit from linked data approaches and vice versa.
In recent years SKOS became very...

Government Linked Data Workshop at OGD Camp

Posted on: 28-09-2011

Warsaw, 28 September 2011

The LOD2 project and the W3C government linked data (GLD) working group announce the following workshop that will take place in the afternoon of 20.10. 2011 in the course of the OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw (from an e-mail by the organizers):

Title: Government Linked Data Workshop - OGD Camp Warsaw
What: The Government Linked Data Workshop will discuss the current status and...

LOD2 Open Data Meet-up

Posted on: 12-09-2011

Leuven, 11 September 2011

(by Ton Zijlstra)

The LOD 2 project is hosting a two-hour Open Data Meet-up in Leuven, Belgium. This event will look at what new technologies can do to improve local governments, without talking about technology or IT too much.

With four speakers the role of open data for local government is explored:

  • Welcome to the Leuven Open Data event, by Saïd El Khadraoui (European Parliament, sp.a)
  • What is Open Data and why is it important for local...

The Digital Agenda Scoreboard

Posted on: 25-05-2011

Luxembourg, 25 May 2011

(by Ton Zijlstra)

In the weeks before the Digital Agenda Assembly, which takes place June 16 and 17, undoubtedly many are also looking at what has been achieved thus far. The EU LOD2 project has prepared an interactive scoreboard that allows you to compare key indicators across the EU.

LOD2 "is a large-scale integrating project co-funded by the European Commission within the...

LOD2 Project PublicData.eu Feedback Requested

Posted on: 12-01-2011

London, 11 January 2011

The OKFN has been drafting a text to describe work that will take place on PublicData.eu, which is part of LOD2 Work Package 9. This is part of the design and requirements gathering process for the LOD2 project, and will inform the technical work that they...

Fill Out the Open Government Data Stakeholder Survey

Posted on: 19-11-2010

The European LOD 2 project is currently circulating a survey aimed at people interested in open government data. This is part of the European funded LOD2
project, a significant part of which is focused on creating free and open source tools and services to make it easier to find and reuse open government data.
If you are interested in government information (whether as a publisher, producer, reuser or consumer) we'd be very grateful for 10-15 minutes of your time to let us know about what you would like to see from the technology we are developing. You can find the survey on...

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