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A spatial data or geographical data is that which has a geographical reference associated with it, either directly, through coordinates, or indirectly, such as a postal code. Thanks to these geographical references it is possible to locate its exact...

Open data portals help municipalities to offer structured and transparent access to the data they generate in the exercise of their functions and in the provision of the services they are responsible for, while also fostering the creation of applications...

It is important to publish open data following a series of guidelines that facilitate its reuse, including the use of common schemas, such as standard formats, ontologies and vocabularies. In this way, datasets published by different organizations will...

Data anonymization defines the methodology and set of best practices and techniques that reduce the risk of identifying individuals, the irreversibility of the anonymization process, and the auditing of the exploitation of anonymized data by monitoring...

Nowadays we have more and more sources of data at our fingertips. According to the European Data Portal, the impact of the open data market could reach up to EUR 334 billion and generate around 2 million jobs by 2025 ('The Economic Impact of Open Data...

An application programming interface or API is a mechanism that allows communication and information exchange between systems. Open data platforms, such as datos.gob.es, have this type of tool to interact with the information system and consult the...

Public sector bodies must make their data available for re-use, making it accessible in the form of open data, as referred to in Spain's legislative framework. The first step for this is that each entity, at local, regional and state level, as well as...

A data space is an ecosystem where, on a voluntary basis, the data of its participants (public sector, large and small technology or business companies, individuals, research organizations, etc.) are pooled. Thus, under a context of sovereignty, trust...

Open data publishers in the National Catalog hosted in datos.gob.es have at their disposal several internal functionalities to easily manage their datasets and everything related to them. To bring these possibilities closer to the registered users,...

The saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" is a clear example of popular wisdom based on science. 90% of the information we process is visual, thanks to a million nerve fibers that link the eye to the brain and more than 20,000 million neurons...