16 November 2020
The Winter 2020 edition of our Open Data Newsletter is now available. You can sign up to receive future open data updates here.
13 November 2020
Ireland's third annual Open Data Conference took place on 2nd December 2020 via Webex. This year's conference focused on the theme of "The journey from Open Data Publication to Impact - How the publication, reporting and re-use of data enables the...
12 November 2020
The applications received under the 2020/2021 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...
12 November 2020
The Hale and Hearty Knowledge Base, a project lead by the Irish Government, supported by the EU Connecting European Facility (CEF) This is an EU funded project that looks at improving access to health and wellbeing information. This project will be...
10 November 2020
Did you know that a new Open Data and Re Use of Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive was agreed at EU level in 2019? The full text of the the Directive is available here. The objective of the recast of the Directive is to strengthen the EU’s...
12 October 2020
As part of Public Sector Innovation Week 2020, Smart Dublin are holding a webinar ‘Smart Districts: Fast-tracking Innovation’. If you are interested in learning more about the Smart Dublin ‘District Approach’ and how technology projects are helping...
12 October 2020
If you are interested in learning more about the future of open data portals you might want to register for one of these upcoming webinars run by the European Data Portal. This series of webinars will discuss current best practices, experience and...
24 September 2020
There are still a few places available on next week’s Data Publication & Technical Framework course (30th Sept-1st Oct) This course gives you the tools and techniques to prepare your data for publication as Open Data. These places will fill up...
11 September 2020
The Open Data Engagement Fund has been running successfully for 4 years now and an integral part of the process is letting the open data community and the general public know about the projects that have received funding. In 2019, the MEDHA Care...
8 September 2020
DATA HARMONISATION GENERATION OF CROSS-BORDER PAN-EUROPEAN GEOSPATIAL DATASETS AND SERVICES IRLOGI WEBINAR The Irish Organisation for Geographical Information (IRLOGI) are hosting a webinar on the 16 September 2020 starting at 13:00 Irish Standard...
1 September 2020
After an overwhelming response to their ONLINE Open Data training courses for all Irish public sector staff, Urban Tide are delighted to announce course dates for 2021 and details of their NEW Training Course. New courses and dates in 2021 – don’t...
12 August 2020
App developers with special interest in real-time public transport information should note that the National Transport Authority (NTA) is discontinuing the existing RTPI API, which is being replaced by a new GTFS Real-Time API - GTFS-R API. The...
10 August 2020
We are delighted to see that three Open Data projects were successful in receiving funding under the 2020 Public Service Innovation funding call. The Fund, now in its second year, is a competition designed to support innovation from public service...
23 July 2020
Check out Ireland’s Covid 19 Data Hub that provides information on figures provided by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) and the Health Service Executive (HSE). Datasets, charts and maps will be updated on an on-going basis and in line...
16 July 2020
Ossian Smyth, Minister of State with responsibility for eGovernment announced details of the 2020/2021 competitive Open Data Engagement Fund on 16 July, 2020. Closing date for applications is 9th October 2020. The Open Data Engagement Fund (a fund...
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...
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