The University is to help realise the potential of Europe’s open data, estimated at €325 billion, as part of the new European Data Portal.
The new Portal has 240,000 data sets and includes 34 European countries. It offers easy access to public data across Europe, with over 13 content categories, ranging from health and education to transport, science and justice.
The full data collection can be accessed, searched and re-used by everyone. The data available covers such wide-ranging topics as crime records in Helsinki, labour mobility in the Netherlands, forestry maps in France, and the impact of digitisation in Poland.
Dr Elena Simperl, Associate Professor in Electronics and Computer Science and Director of ODINE, the Open Data Incubator for Europe, commented:
“The launch of the European Open Data Portal is a very significant step in ensuring that Europe takes advantage of the huge quantities of open data being produced and used across the Continent.
“At Southampton we are working together with Capgemini and the rest of the consortium to strengthen the European open data ecosystem by producing white papers, studying the impact of open data, and developing a database of European stakeholders.”
You can read the full press release here.