Tweet Tweet We are deeply saddened by the terrible news of the untimely loss of our esteemed colleague Michael Wilson at the end of April. Michael was involved in ENGAGE from the beginning but after the first review he was seconded from STFC to a position in the UK government department responsible for research. We …
Tweet Tweet ENGAGE Platform 2.0 (BETA) released! After the release of the 1st version of the ENGAGE platform in 2012, the ENGAGE consortium has worked hard to release ENGAGE v2.0 with new and improved features and architecture. A key motivation for those changes and additions were the results and feedback of the project’s extensive user …
Tweet Tweet ENGAGE organised a Workshop titled ‘Linking open data – Challenges and Solutions’ at the 13th International Conference on Digital Government research (Dg.O 2012). The event took place in the University of Maryland, USA, on Monday, June 4, 2012. The Workshop was organised by ENGAGE partners DELFT and AEGEAN, and was structured on the …
Tweet Tweet On May 3 and 4, 2012, several ENGAGE project members attended the CeDEM12 conference (Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government), organized by the Danube-University in Krems, Austria. A paper written by Anneke Zuiderwijk, Keith Jeffery and Marijn Janssen was presented, entitled ‘The necessity of metadata for linked open data and its contribution to …
Tweet Tweet On May 3 and 4, 2012, several ENGAGE project members attended the CeDEM12 conference (Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government), organized by the Danube-University in Krems, Austria. A workshop was organized entitled Open Linked Public Sector Data for Citizen Engagement; A workshop about the benefits and restrictions of open linked public sector data …
Tweet Tweet The Samos 2012 Summit on Open Data and Interoperability is co-organised by the University of Aegean, the Greek Interoperability Centre of the National Technical University of Athens, the ENGAGE eInfrastructures project and the ENSEMBLE Support Action (under the auspices of the Future Internet Enterprise Systems cluster), in order to foster international cooperation and …
Tweet Tweet Express your needs and help the ENGAGE project to address them! Take the survey, and receive the survey results and conclusions for free (please specify your email address at the end of the survey). What is the ENGAGE project about? The ENGAGE-project aims to create an e-infrastructure to open up public sector data …
Tweet Tweet CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ON Open Data for Science and Society Forward-Looking, Visionary Approaches for Public Sector Information Sharing and Utilisation AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Open data provide an unprecedented opportunity for societies to move towards transparency, evidence-based decisions, enhanced cohesion, public engagement and trust. Public sector information may be offered as ”open data” in …
Tweet Tweet The ENGAGE project is organising an open workshop on the 29th August 2011, targeting “Open Governmental Data for Science and Society”, in conjunction with the tenth IFIP eGovernment Conference, which takes place in Delft, The Netherlands, between the 28th August and 2nd September 2011. The local host of the IFIP eGovernment Conference is …
Tweet Tweet The ENGAGE project held its kick-off workshop on Monday the 20th of June 2011, at the National Technical University of the Aegean (NTUA) in Athens, Greece, followed on the 21st of June by a project commencement meeting. The project’s full name is: “An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Data Provision Towards Research Communities and …