We are happy to announce the special issue of the interdisciplinary INDECS journal!
Soon you can read on the role of open data in making our world a little better. Several societal challenges were identified from the submissions to this special issue: Trend (1) Extending the open data supply; Trend (2) Applying open data to real world challenges; and Trend (3) Improving the open data ecosystem.
This special issue of the interdisciplinary INDECS journal is planned to offer the results of research on opening and sharing data in the context of the European Data Strategy striving towards a single European data market, the implementation of the Open Data Directive by EU Member States and other EU measures promoting open data. Europe is working towards this goal with the soon to be expected draft Implementing act on high-value data sets as part of the Open Data Directive [1], the proposed Data Act [2], and the proposed Data Governance Act [3].The upcoming Interoperable Europe Act will help the Member States further on their way to digital transformation facilitating the creation of eco-system of integrated digital public services. This Act will be adding to the building blocks upgrading governing digital services in the EU agreed upon earlier this year by the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council: the Digital Services Act [4] and the Digital Markets Act [5].
After our open call in the winter 2021 we have received a surprising number of announcements and even more manuscripts were submitted.
From the submissions to this special issue several societal challenges were identified:
- Trend 1: Extending the open data supply;
- Trend 2: Applying open data to real world challenges; and
- Trend 3: Improving the open data ecosystem.
Here is link to the special issue Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems: INDECS , Vol. 20 No. 2, 2022., where you can read on the role of open data in making our world a little better in the following eleven articles:
- Improving the availability of space research spatial data, by Nevistić and Bačić;
- Open National CORS data ecosystems: A cross-jurisdictional comparison, by Supinajaroen et al.
- Identifying and overcoming the barriers towards open data of public undertakings, by Boone and Van Loenen
- Firefly occurrences in Croatia – One step closer from citizen science to open data by Virić et al.
- Urban dog spaces: the openness of dog-related data in the City of Zagreb, Croatia by Varga et al.
- Importance of the open data approach for multimodal travel improvement by Mandzuka et al.
- Open election data: Evidence from Croatia in a comparative perspective by Đurman et al.
- Open access on GNSS permanent networks data in case of disaster by Latinčić et al.
- Framework for federated learning open models in e-Government applications, by Guberović et al.
- Serious games for building data capacity, by Di Staso et al.
- Towards digital innovation: Stakeholder interactions in agricultural data ecosystem in Croatia by Hrustek et al.
[1] Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information. OJ L 172.
[2] European Commission, 2022, Proposal for a of the European Parliament and of the Council on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act). COM(2022) 68 final.
[3] European Commission, 2020, Proposal for a of the European Parliament and of the Council on European data governance (Data Governance Act). COM(2020) 767 final.
[4] See for the text of the proposal: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC. COM/2020/825 final.
[5] See for the text of the proposal: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act), 2020/0374 (COD).