Svetlana related her experience as volunteer cardiologist in the Bosnian War. After this conflict she began to consider why their patients (victims) had shared their memories as a survival mechanism. In her book "Good People in an Evil Time" she...

Scraping is a technique to automate the extraction of data in a format not usable to pass them to processable formats such as .csv or .xls. Although it´s convenient to have programming skills, there are tools (like Needlebase) to perform these data...

The Data Republic is a data 2.0 recycling company that transforms data generated through the Internet into information. After data proccessing, companies can know their customers and their competition through the information they share in their own...

Spain is the only country, into the European Union, with more than one million of inhabitans that doesn´t have a law on access to information . In our country, this isn´t regarded as a right, even though transnational statements linking it to the...

Reuse of public sector information is regulated by Real Decreto 1495/2011 which specifies under what conditions. The Aporta project aims to promote a culture of data reuse into public administrations, the access to reuse information and the market.

Many data formats are not reusable and not processable (eg, PDF) so, for a good database management is important to know what tools allow us to convert these documents into reusable data.