The National Library of Luxembourg has developed an OCR-tool, that users of historical open data can find pre-trained on GitHub. This software tool is an enhancer of quality of existing XML schema or…
NEWSCreated: 03/08/2021Updated Date: 04/08/2021
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has invested in the further development of Mailvelope, an open source browser plugin for end-to-end encryption of webmail and web forms. The…
NEWSCreated: 28/08/2019Updated Date: 28/08/2019
Spire Global, a large space-to-cloud analytics company co-funded with the Luxembourg Space Agency one of the largest open data lakes for space data analytics. As of July 2019, the open data lake…
NEWSCreated: 21/08/2019Updated Date: 09/09/2019
“Open source software will be promoted, especially by using it in public administrations.” For the first time, a Luxembourg government has included open source in its coalition agreement. The new…
NEWSCreated: 17/12/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
Long term support for Grid and High Performance Computing The High Performance Computing (HPC) department at the University of Luxembourg sponsors open source developers, getting long term support…
NEWSCreated: 10/02/2017Updated Date: 10/02/2017
During the Paris OGP Summit 2017, Germany and Luxembourg were among the European countries that announced their intent to join the Open Government Partnership. Portugal said it will “soon” become a…
NEWSCreated: 30/12/2016Updated Date: 30/12/2016
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg officially launched its national open data portal data.public.lu on April 8th. This portal, supported by Digital Luxembourg, the government agency in charge of digital…
NEWSCreated: 27/05/2016Updated Date: 27/05/2016
Gecamed, an open source Electronic Health Record system developed in Luxembourg since 2007, is already used by more than 10 per cent of all general practitioners in the country. It is also the first…
NEWSCreated: 07/05/2015Updated Date: 07/05/2015
The cadastre administration in Luxembourg uses open source software solutions where possible. This type of software was used, for example, to build its latest online service, a wizard that makes it…
NEWSCreated: 17/08/2012Updated Date: 17/08/2012
In Luxembourg a non profit organisation meant to increase the use of Open Source software is to be created later this month. The as yet unnamed organisation is the initiative of the Free and Open…
NEWSCreated: 07/02/2008Updated Date: 07/02/2008