- European Parliament approves new PSI directive
- Save the date: LAPSI 2.0 organises its 1st conference "The new PSI directive: what's next?" on 24 October 2013!
- New EFTA case on charging under Article 6 PSI directive
- Participate in the public review of the DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe!
- Participate in the public review of the DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe!
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Open Data Ireland Meetup
An Open Data Ireland Meetup event will be held on 20 June at Engine Yard, The Warehouse in Dublin at 18.30.
image: Check this box to show children:GeoDevolutas: mapping abandoned houses in Portugal
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GeoDevolutas (http://geodevolutas.org) is a Transparência Hackday Portugal project that aims to ignite consciousness of abandoned houses in urban areas.
Enschede Data Drinks: finding a solution for vacant premises with Open Data
Date: June 24, 2013, 19:30 to 21:15
image: Check this box to show children:Workshop: Linked Data for Web Developers
This one-day seminar (6h including breaks) is targeted at Web developers and those interested in delving into data modelling and code. Linked data and semantics will be treated from the point of view of a web developer, beginning with an introduction to the Web of Data and several real examples from different domains.
image: Check this box to show children:Semantic Interoperability Conference (SEMIC) 2013
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INSPIRE Conference 2013: The Green Renaissance
23-27 June 2013. Florence, Italy.
image: Check this box to show children:Berlin Open Data Day 2013
The Berlin Open Data Day 2013 will be held on 24 June 2013 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOCUS). This year's motto is “Open Data - Berlin - Germany – Europe”
Open Data Day events gather citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open data. This supports and encourages the adoption of open data policies by the world’s governments. The events are open to anyone: from curious citizens to journalists to designers and more.
image: Check this box to show children:GEN News Summit - DJA2013
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Open Meeting Groningen: a thematic night on Open Data
A thematic night on the free provision of government data for reuse (Open Data) will take place on Thursday, June 20, 2013 from 20:00 to 23:00 at The Milk Lab in Groningen, Netherlands.
Throughout the evening, the following questions will be addressed:
image: Check this box to show children:ODI launches new Open Data Certificate
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The ODI is launching their first Beta of Open Data Certificates aimed to help everyone find, understand and use open data that has been released. Certificates are created online, for free, at http://certificates.theodi.org/.
The process involves publishers answering a series of questions, each of which affect the certificate generated at the end. There are four levels of certificates:
European Parliament approves new PSI directive
On 13 June 2013, the European Parliament formally adopted the updated EU rules on the re-use of public sector information. On 25 April the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy had already voted positively on the final text.
European Parliament approves plans to Open up access to public Data
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On 13 June 2013, the European Parliament gave the approval to make public information more accessible, enabling companies to reuse the data to offer new services and applications. This includes information such as statistics, digitised books, and weather and geographic data. The aim of this legislation is to promote transparency in public administration, and give a boost to the digital economy - which the European Commission estimates will sum up to €40 billion.
Greece releases the "want2know" platform
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Along with the press release "G8 countries must work harder to open up essential data", the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) Greece also released the want2know platform. This platform is m
Innovative City Convention 2013
The Innovative City Convention 2013 will address these fundamental topics through reports and the expertise of international actors:
image: Check this box to show children:Open Data Hack: Apps for the City of Cologne
18-19 June 2013. Cologne, Germany.
image: Check this box to show children:Terrassa Open Government Day
Date: 20 June 2013
Location: Edifici Vapor Universitari, Colom 114, 08222 Terrassa, Spain
image: Check this box to show children:Digital Agenda Assembly 2013
The third edition of the Digital Agenda Assembly, an annual event for assessing progress and identifying challenges for the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE), will take place 19-20 June at Dublin Castle.
image: Check this box to show children:UKGovLD Working Group 2nd open meeting
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Open Data Immersion: an Open Data Sheffield & Startup Club
This Startup Club Sheffield and the Open Data Institute will be looking at the opportunities for data entrepreneurship on 17 June at the Workstation in Sheffield, UK
image: Check this box to show children:G8 countries must work harder to open up essential data
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Open Data and transparency will be one of the three main topics at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland next week.
Recently released data shows that G8 countries still have a long way to go in releasing essential information as Open Data.
