The European Union Commission has unveiled a new Open Data Portal, with over 5,580 data sets – the majority of which comes from the Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union). The portal is the result of the Commission’s ‘Open Data Strategy for Europe’, and will publish data from the European Commission and other bodies of the European Union; it already holds data from the European Environment Agency.

 

The portal has a SPARQL endpoint to provide linked data, and will also feature applications that use this data. The published data can be downloaded by everyone interested to facilitate reuse, linking and the creation of innovative services. This shows the commitment of the Commission to the principles of openness and transparency.

 

For more information https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/blog/eu-open-data-portal-here