Stratégie numérique: valoriser les données des administrations publiques European Commission - Press release Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold Brussels, 12 December 2011 – The Commission has launched an Open Data Strategy for Europe, which is expected to deliver a €40 billion boost to the EU's economy each year. Europe’s public administrations are sitting on a goldmine of unrealised economic potential: the large volumes of information collected by numerous public authorities and services. Member States such as the United Kingdom and France are already demonstrating this value. These actions position the EU as the global leader in the re-use of public sector information. Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes said: "We are sending a strong signal to administrations today. The Commission proposes to update the 2003 Directive on the re-use of public sector information by: Making it compulsory to provide data in commonly-used, machine-readable formats, to ensure data can be effectively re-used. Background More information: See MEMO/11/891
Open Data Tools - Tools Data Wikidata Large free knowledge base and repository for structured data for the Wikipedia. Quadrigram Professional platform with paid plans for creating customized data visualizations. Quandl Search engine for financial, economic and social datasets. GeoCommons Toolkit, community and service around the visualization and sharing of geodata. TED - Open Data Talk (Tim Berners Lee) "The year open data went worldwide". OpenGeoData Blog and podcast about open maps, data and OpenStreetMap. data.gov.uk - Blogs Open data blogs on data.gov.uk. Stackoverflow - Overview Scraping Solutions Overview on coding questions site Stackoverflow with different HTML scraping solutions for various programming languages. Mechanize (Perl/Python/Ruby) Library with versions in Perl, Python and Ruby for the automating interaction with websites and for website scraping. Nokogiri (Ruby) Ruby library for scraping web pages. Django Dynamic Scraper (Python/Django) Scrapy (Python) Scraping and web crawling framework for Python.
Neelie Kroes Vice President European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Opening up Europe: from Common Standards to Open Data OpenForum Europe Summit 2011, Brussels 22nd September 2011 Neelie Kroes Vice President European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Opening up Europe: from Common Standards to Open Data OpenForum Europe Summit 2011, Brussels 22nd September 2011 Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to be speaking here again; I'm on my way to becoming a regular at your Summits! Last year, at the 2010 Summit, I shared with you my ideas on interoperability and standards, and listed some key actions to put in place. Well, we have achieved a lot, but we haven't achieved everything: so here I am! Of course I am eager to tell you today what we've done since last year and so I will start with that. Ladies and Gentlemen, In all sectors, standards and standardisation drive competitiveness, promote innovation, and benefit consumers through competition. Remember that the ICT revolution would not be what it is without the standards and protocols which underpin the Internet. And we in Europe are now one huge step closer to better standards. That's what we've done.
cfp | Proxima Mobile: The European Portal of Mobile Services for Citizens Open Data Proxima MobileEuropean Call for Proposals Launch: July 13, 2011 - deadline: October 5, 2011 Presentation In order to foster the development of pan-European mobile services, and especially those related to the promotion of European public data, the French Ministry of Industry, Energy and Digital Economy and the Ministry for Higher Education and Research are launching the Open Data Proxima Mobile call for European proposals. This call for proposals will provide a financial support to innovative mobile applications or services based on public data sets made available by European public entities. Projects submitted to the call for proposals should be related to transportation, culture, tourism and the environment. Eligible applicants will be companies, associations, public institutions or territorial communities with registered offices in the European Union. The winning proposals of applications and services will be granted subsidies for their implementation. How to apply 1. 2. 3. 1.
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