Tag: Portal

EU Open Data Portal. An Evaluation.

Eurostat, 032 Metadata, 023 Semantic Web, 036 Databases, 037 Open data initiatives

Evaluating the EU Open Data Portal

‘The Department of Library and Information Science at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) has published a study that analyses and evaluates the European Open Data Portal.’ 2014-07-30_EUPortal . 2014-07-30_EUPortal-Report Report presentation: http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/analysis-and-evaluation-european-union-open-data-portal-0 or direct download:  http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RGID/article/download/99-118/42697. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Some interesting findings summarized below:

Editors

As with most of the other Open Government Data Portals the bulk of data comes from statistical agencies, here from Eurostat: 2014-07-30_EUPortal-Editores .

Top 10

Number 1 is a translation help for all EU languages (‘translation memory, TM; i.e. sentences and their professionally produced translations’) 2014-07-30_EUPortal-top10 .

Formats

Evaluation of data formats  follows Tim Berners-Lee’s 5star schema. 2014-07-30_EuPortal-formatos .

5star for metadata queries

Semantic (****)  or even Linked (*****)  Data are not part of the portal’s data repository. BUT the description of the data with metadata follows 5star requirements and the EU Portal offers a SPARQL endpoint. Great! 2014-07-30_EUPortal-SPARQL-Metadata https://open-data.europa.eu/en/linked-data

Let’s learn SPARQL!