the portals that we are building, they are not just data repositories.
Why are open data portals crucial for building climate resilience?
How open data portals can provide data to help build climate resilience. Read the article to learn more.
Why user experience is an essential component of your open data portal
Poor user experience (UX) can seriously hold the discoverability, usability and reusability of the data on your portal. Let’s look at the key elements of good UX design and why it’s so important.
Artificial intelligence and open data – a mutually beneficial interaction
We have grown used to reading and hearing about the enormous potential of artificial intelligence (AI). The rapidly evolving nature of the technology makes it difficult to pinpoint specific shifts in the relationship between AI and open data.
Continue ReadingIntroducing Link Digital’s New GeoPackage Extension for CKAN
Working with a diverse range of clients on CKAN-powered open data portals and data catalogues often throws up all manner of technological challenges our developers must deal with. And in the process, they often come up with innovative ways of doing things that involve new CKAN extensions or improvements to CKAN’s core software.
Continue ReadingPublic governance in a time of polycrisis: what I learnt from Berlin’s Creative Bureaucracy Festival
The idea of a Creative Bureaucracy Festival may sound like a contradiction in terms, but the intent behind the day-long event in Berlin in early June makes complete sense: to create space for public administrators to discuss how to work smarter and, particularly, to ramp up their use of data and digital to provide more innovative, efficient, and better services.
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