30 June 2020
The Summer 2020 edition of our Open Data Newsletter is now available. You can sign up to receive future open data updates here.
29 June 2020
The 'Fáilte Maps' app had been developed by Donegal Software Engineer Brian Douglas and makes use of data that has been made available by Failte Ireland on data.gov.ie under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. It allows the user to view...
25 June 2020
In May 2020, the EDP published an analytical report titled "Open data best practices in Europe: Cyprus, France, and Ireland". The report provides readers with an overview of best practices implemented by top performing countries of the 2019...
24 June 2020
Biodiversity Maps is a national portal that compiles biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it freely available on-line. The portal provides an overview of the state of knowledge on the distribution of Ireland's biodiversity from empirical...
11 June 2020
International high-impact speakers from the areas of Health and Open Data discussed Open Data and Covid-19 on Tuesday, 23 June from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm. This was a free event and was open to all. In this fifth session of the Open Data Impact Series,...
22 May 2020
There has been huge interest in the Introduction to Open Data Training courses run by Urban Tide. The 3rd session takes place on Thursday 2nd July 2020 from 10 am to 12 pm however registration is now closed as all the places available are full. We...
18 May 2020
We are delighted to let you know that we have been working with UrbanTide to bring you a new online Introduction to Open Data training course. Our first course will run on Thursday 28th May 2020 from 10 am to 12 pm. The course will be FREE of charge...
11 May 2020
We are delighted that the Open Data portal now includes a number of Open Data Impact Stories. The goal of the Impact Stories feature is to give examples of current use of open data while also telling a story with the data and in doing so directly...
27 April 2020
Blog Post by Alana Murphy and Nicolas Perrin, Flax & Teal The project: The Data Times (The Data Times) is a free, easy to search tool originally targeted towards community journalists to engage in cross-border, data-driven journalism, by helping users...
9 April 2020
Open Datasets on COVID-19 statistics from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) are now available on the open data portal for reuse. These include statistics on COVID - 19 related confirmed cases, deaths, county statistics, hospital...
2 April 2020
Can you re-use open data to promote innovative services? Can you solve other societal challenges using it? Can you create mobile or web apps using open data from different information sources? If yes, the EU Datathon 2020 is for you! The fourth...
19 March 2020
The fifth session in the Series entitled ‘Improving Health and Wellbeing using Open Data’ was scheduled to take place on Thursday morning, 2nd April 2020 in the Wood Quay Venue, Dublin City Council Civic Offices, Dublin 8. This has now been postponed...
10 March 2020
An English version of this item is available here. Creat Ionchódaithe Éirchód OGP Tá creat ilsoláthraí forbartha ag an Oifig um Sholáthar Rialtais (OGP) le haghaidh bulc-ionchódú Éirchód ar bhunachair sonraí de chuid na hearnála poiblí. Cuirfidh seo...
10 March 2020
Tá leagan Gaeilge den mhír seo ar fáil anseo. OGP Eircode Encoding Framework The Office of Government Procurement (OGP) has developed a multi-supplier framework for bulk encoding of Eircodes on to public sector databases. This will provide PSBs and...
27 February 2020
The European Data Portal publishes its study “The Economic Impact of Open Data: Opportunities for value creation in Europe”. It researches the value created by open data in Europe and includes a number of examples from Ireland . It is the second study...
26 February 2020
The Spring 2020 edition of our Open Data Newsletter is now available. You can sign up to receive future open data updates here.
10 February 2020
Maynooth University Library will be hosting Love Data Week during the week of 10-14 February, 2020. The hashtag is #lovedata20. Similar to Open Access Week, the purpose of Love Data Week is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics...
27 January 2020
SMEs and startups are invited to propose innovative services and solutions based on European Commission's ISA² Programme and open and reusable Connecting Europe Facility Building Blocks. Through this Challenge, the European Commission aims to...
4 December 2019
The second annual Open Data Conference ‘Open Data Challenges and Opportunities' took place on 27 November 2019 in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin 2. Over 130 public servants from a wide range of public bodies attended the conference which was...
3 December 2019
The applications received under the 2019/2020 Open Data Engagement Fund call for funding proposals were assessed by a sub committee of the Open Data Governance Board. Congratulations to the winning applicants, which are listed below. We look...
3 December 2019
Ireland is continuing to lead the way in Europe for Open Data having been ranked top of the European Commission’s Open Data Maturity survey for the past 3 years running - 2017, 2018 and 2019. The results of the EU Commission 2019 Open Data Maturity...
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