The information that is published and that imposes barriers to reuse is not really open from the point of view of transparency. The monitoring action of the published information can only be produced if it can really be used and reused with the minimum cost and maximum reach. Six recommendations are included here for the […]
This September 7th I have presented the lecture “The future and impact of open data: Lies, half-truths and other uncomfortable facts” Thanks to the organisers Toñi Ferrer and Fernanda Peset and to the @upv. Delighted to share the event with @cabralens, #herve falciani, @adolflow and @kikollan and many others. 20160807-data-reusability-meloda_aag_v04 You can find here 4 […]
Just for fun I have started a set of #opendata advises. So everyday (mostly) you can find a twitt in my account @aabella, but if you want to recover some old one you have a table with all of them in the #opendata advises link in the menu.
The recent decision of British people about leaving the EU introduces lots of uncertainties. One of them, and I am rather sure that it will not be on the core of the discussions is about opening their research. it is a brave decision of the EU research program to force every entity using their public […]
My talk about the impact of opendata in our society. A discussion panel at open expo. Find here the slides of my presentation. I remark that even having some interesting economic predictions the model to determine the social and economic impact is mostly unknown. And so the public policies to optimise the open data publishing. […]
Today I will join @furilo moderated by @abarbero talking about these topics. Hopefully the questions will be much more interesting that our contributions. I will try con convince the audience that releasing data is not only a transparency practice but a management tool. Thanks to Eduard Gil, (Sagessa) and Maria Jesus Ruiz (from datos.zaragoza.es) truly […]
Find here 5 videos about the basics of open data. Language is Spanish. Recorded 4 years ago and available in youtube, surprisingly they are quite current. Definición Open data y precedentes open (Ivan Sánchez) @realivansanchez Open data desde el punto de vista ciudadano (David Cabo) @dcabo El futuro del open data para las administraciones(Guzman Garmendia) […]
Just a tiny spillover of my job to share with you. If you are a linked open data portal administrator in Spain is quite likely that you have chosen the Spanish regulation to categorize all the datasets in your catalogue. The coming EU regulation, DCAT-AP use a slightly different approach, and they have qualified around […]
CBD, Charlatan Based Decisions, are, in the political arena, those decisions taken not because is there any data backing it but just because they sound coherent with an ideology. After a CBD is taken, data about the results are ignored, distorted, manipulated, or, in the best case, only presented those that hardly fit into their […]
Smart cities are service providers as well as sources of public data. The reuse of cities’ data through the application of technology enables the creation of innovative services for citizens. Apps, developed by reusing information, are considered a key indicator for the creation of services. This paper explores the main characteristics of these apps and […]