Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the digital transformation
The EC Joint Research Centre shares its knowledge on APIs and their adoption in organisations.
StandardisationeGovernment+3 topics
Last update: 22/04/2024
ShowVoc
ShowVoc is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for publishing, consulting and validating reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information.
LegalOpen Source Software+5 topics
Last update: 10/03/2023
Decision supporting tool on interoperability
The Decision supporting tool on interoperability (the Tool) is being developed as part of the Legal Interoperability ISA2 action, which aims to ensure that digital and interoperability aspects are considered in EU policies from their earliest stage. Upon the design of a new legislation that brings changes to existing digital environments, especially at a trans-European level, policymakers have to choose which would be the most effective and efficient approach for implementation. In this decision they may want to consider, among other aspects, the costs and benefits of including…
Digital innovationLegal+14 topics
Last update: 02/09/2020
EU Datathon 2020: the open data competition
121 proposals later, discover who our 12 finalists are for EU Datathon 2020! This year’s EU Datathon adventure started in February with the call to data enthusiasts worldwide to propose ideas for applications using open data from the EU institutions, agencies and bodies. The deadline for proposals was early May. The preselection jury had 121 proposals to select, the biggest number of entries since the first EU Datathon took place in 2017. These proposals were aimed to address four Challenges of the European Commission, and invited participants to develop apps to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic…
Statistics and informationEnergy and environment+12 topics
Last update: 10/11/2023
ELI ontology for draft legislation (ELI-DL)
If you have any comments or feedbacks on the beta version of ELI-DL, please share them in this discussion topic. The ELI (European Legislation Identifier) ontology for draft legislation (abbreviated ELI-DL) is an extension of the core ELI ontology that gives a formal data model to disseminate structured data about legislative projects. In particular it enables the structured annotation of existing web pages (using RDFa or JSON-LD) in order to turn their information into machine-readable data. The aim is to support the following use-cases : easier and earlier data exchange between legal…
LegaleGovernment+2 topics
Last update: 04/05/2020
INSPIRE Registry Viewer
French below. Français en dessous. What is it? The INSPIRE Registry Viewer is a tool developed by Egis. It was first developed with the idea and purpose of being able to better understand the scale of the European INSPIRE Re3gistry. By extracting data from the INSPIRE Re3gistry with a script, we were able to visualize these data with the INSPIRE Registry Viewer, which is based on the D3.js library. The tool is quite simple, it generates a diagram based on a json data input. The diagram is fully interactive which means you can zoom in and out, drag nodes and click on one of them to open its…
Energy and environmentOpen Source Software+5 topics
Last update: 22/04/2024
VocBench
VocBench is an OSS (under BSD 3) which manages reference data and code lists for semantic interoperability (OWL, SKOS, Ontolex-lemon, RDF) to produce and publish Linked Open Data. It is an EU solution.
Open Source SoftwareStandardisation+2 topics
Last update: 12/01/2024
Top in Estonians E-education under EUPL
Known for the quality of their education system, Estonia provides its online E-education tool SCHOOLABY under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). Interest of E-education was especially reinforced during the recent COVID pandemics and in case war pushes students away from their schools, as it is unfortunately the case in Ukraine, but even in normal circumstances and for various reasons (illness, trip or expatriation, lack of teachers, break due to sport competition activities etc.) it can be a precious alternative. It ensures constant readiness, also for distance learning with some…
SocialCulture and education+2 topics
Last update: 30/01/2024
Interoperable Europe Act proposal and NIFO
The legislative journey of the Interoperable Europe Act proposalOn 18 November 2023, the European Parliament and the presidency of the Council, held by Spain until December 2023, have reached a provisional agreement on the proposed legislation regarding measures on a high level of public sector interoperability across the EU, commonly known as the Interoperable Europe Act. The deal has come almost one year after the adoption of the proposal by the European Commission. The proposal follows Member States’ call to strengthen European interoperability cooperation and digital transformation more…
A group of developers (mostly based in Germany: Peer Heinlein, Markus Michels, Dennis Kalbhen and more) launches OpenTalk, a new, modern architecture Video Conferencing solution that is presented as the Open Source and EUPL licensed European alternative to Zoom, WebEx (Cisco) or Teams (Microsoft). OpenTalk aims to demonstrate that quality, performance, usability, and security can be achieved without having to rely on a US-based cloud infrastructure, they said. “It’s the only way to ensure digital sovereignty and full transparency, because we have published the source code of OpenTalk under the...
Business and competitionCollaboration+3 topics
Last update: 23/07/2022
Digital Earth Viewer
Under the title “Data Analysis and Exploration with Visual Approaches” nine authors* delivered on 15 July 2022 a Springer Link study of the Earth system and its related processes, in order to perform a holistic examination and understanding of multidimensional data acquired with a large number of different sensors or produced by various models. To this end, the Digital Earth project developed a set of software solutions to study environmental data sets using visual approaches. In particular, the Digital Earth Viewer, which is open source and licensed under the EUPL, is a web application for…
GeospatialContent and knowledge managementScience and technology
Last update: 11/11/2021
Survey on Web Accessibility Directive
The European Commission is currently reviewing the application of the Web Accessibility Directive, collecting evidence from individuals and various stakeholders involved in web accessibility. The general public consultation on the review closed on 25 October. These targeted surveys seek further insights. Therefore, we would be grateful if you could reply to these surveys on web accessibility in the EU. The surveys are confidential and will support the review, whose findings will be published in June 2022. Please respond to the most appropriate survey(s) for your profile (you can respond to…