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Codelist for bio-geographical regions, Europe 2011
Europe 2011 - The biogeographical regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the…
SOLUTIONCreated: 04/06/2013Updated Date: 19/05/2014
Check the new release of Vocbench, a platfom for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information
VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. With persistent…
NEWSCreated: 30/09/2021Updated Date: 30/09/2021
The DigitALL Public conference dedicated a full session to the role of open source in the public sector.
By addressing the challenges and opportunities of using open source in the public domain, the session focused on the benefits that public administration could gain from open source and drew ideas to…
NEWSCreated: 04/05/2021Updated Date: 04/05/2021
GIS video tutorial attracts municipalities from across Europe
An online training course on gvSIG - an open source geographic information system (GIS) - continues to attract new users from Europe and across the globe. Over the past two years the gvSIG Association…
NEWSCreated: 24/04/2020Updated Date: 24/04/2020
Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia join EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
This month the Linux Foundation launched the CHIPS Alliance, which will be home to open source projects related to microprocessors and Systems on a Chip (SoCs). All the early backers — Esperanto…
NEWSCreated: 20/03/2019Updated Date: 03/04/2019
Hackathon award for Latvian open source preschool directory
CareQueue, an open source project that presents public data on preschools, won last week’s Open Data Hackathon 2018 in Riga (Latvia). The software plots preschools on a map, showing space availability…
NEWSCreated: 04/10/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
Latvian Ventspils controls costs with open source
The administration of Ventspils, Latvia’s sixth largest city, is an avid user of free and open source software. The main benefits: cost and resource optimisation. In recent years, the city has…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2017Updated Date: 23/02/2017
Award for Latvian Archives’ use of open source
The Latvian National Archives have won the “Most Open Organisation” award for their extensive use of free and open source software for their online audiovisual archive. The system combines (Red Hat)…
NEWSCreated: 14/02/2017Updated Date: 14/02/2017
Latvia open technology group to announce award
On Thursday 2 February, the Latvian Open Technology Association (LATA) will announce its ‘Most Open Institution’ award. One of the potential winners is the Latvian National Archive, which was…
NEWSCreated: 31/01/2017Updated Date: 31/01/2017
City of Riga to renew its ICT strategy
Focus on open data and access to electronic services The city of Riga (Latvia) will soon begin an overhaul of its approach to IT, focussing on making its data open by default, and giving companies and…
NEWSCreated: 05/02/2016Updated Date: 05/02/2016
Latvia’s authorities meet open technologists
The smart city activities of Riga and the intelligent transport systems devised by Latvia’s state road department are two of the many topics in next week’s “Open Technologies and Smart Solutions”…
NEWSCreated: 22/01/2016Updated Date: 22/01/2016
Northern EU leaders to discuss government modernisation
Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Davið Gunnlaugsson has invited his colleagues from the Nordic countries, the Baltic states and the United Kingdom to discuss government modernisation. The Northern…
NEWSCreated: 20/10/2015Updated Date: 20/10/2015