The Hague Innovators Challenge Finals 2022

Open Data: Gold Without Rush

When you need data from the past, it is too late to start collecting it. If you need satellite data, it is unlikely that you can have your own sensors in the space. Working with open data is sometimes cheaper than with market vendor data. But most open data is not processed. We made the investment to clean it for you.

Blog: Why is it so hard to work with it?

Search Things Not Strings

A very cold winter is coming to Europe.
Thermowatt is looking for specific locations in the Hague, then South Holland, then in the Benelux, then in the EU, to pump out the energy from lukewarm wastewater, protecting both your energy costs, the climate, and the biodiversity of natural water bodies.

Blog: Open Linked Data & Semantic Search for Buildings

Link Unconnected, Hard-to-use Data

Just weeks before the tragic, but sadly predictable Belgian floods we connected some open, but unprocessed opinion poll data about the perception of flood risk, hydrological data about the actual risk of flood, and public finance data in the extremely decentralized country.

The data has been there, but it was not in a form that public policymakers, insurers of NGOs could have used directly.

Blog: Connect Hydrological, Public Finance, and Opinion Poll Data

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Software solutions

Our new, vertical observatories bring ESG and antitrust solutions from our domain-specific observatories. The competition observatory is in an early, conceptual phase. We are currently making progress with the ESG reporting issue, which overlap, for example, in providing evidence against greenwashing.

UN SDG 17

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Releases

Looking for partners

We are looking for partners within the Dutch AI Coalition Culture and Media Working Group and similar organizations to integrate our data observatories into global knowledge graphs and to use them deploy trustworthy AI. ☛ blogspot ☛ slides

Check Out Our Observatories!

Learn R With Our Team

Participating in open source is often a highly collaborative experience. We’re encouraged to create in public view, and we’re incentivize to welcome contributions of all kinds from people around the world. This makes the practice of open source as much social as it is technical. ☛ slides

Slides

Competition Data Observatory

Automated Data Observatory

Reprex

rOpenGov

Yes!Delft AI+Blockchain Validation Lab

Our Competition Data Observatory is a fully automated, open source, open data observatory that produces new indicators from open data sources and experimental big data sources, with authoritative copies and a modern API.

Our observatory is monitoring the certain segments of the European economy, and develops tools for computational antitrust in Europe. We take a critical SME-, intellectual property policy and competition policy point of view automation, robotization, and the AI revolution on the service-oriented European social market economy.

We would like to create early-warning, risk, economic effect, and impact indicators that can be used in scientific, business and policy contexts for professionals who are working on re-setting the European economy after a devastating pandemic and in the age of AI. We would like to map data between economic activities (NACE), antitrust markets, and sub-national, regional, metropolitian area data.

Get involved in services: our ongoing projects, team of contributors, open-source libraries and use our data for publications. See some use cases.

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Contact us .

Download our competition presentation

Our Product/Market Fit was validated in the world’s 2nd ranked university-backed incubator program, the Yes!Delft AI Validation Lab.

Applications

Smart Policy Documents

Stop uploading your work onto the web 2.0 in a pdf, epub, or word file. Build a self-refreshing resource that re-refreshes the statistics, legal texts, tables, visualizations, footnotes and bibliography instead. This way you’ll have a greater impact: you’ll connect to web 3.0 of the global knowledge graphs, and your work can be reused much better.

Smart Reporting Resources

Stop uploading your work onto the web 2.0 in a pdf, epub, or word file. Build a self-refreshing resource that re-refreshes the statistics, legal texts, tables, visualizations, footnotes and bibliography instead. This way you’ll have a greater impact: you’ll connect to web 3.0 of the global knowledge graphs, and your work can be reused much better.

Application Development

We are building and ecosystem of open data, open software and trustworthy algorithms around our data observatories. We collaborate with scientific software developers, and their communities, such as rOpenGov. Our software tools have many thousand users, but they require coding skills.

Eviota

Connected financial and sustainability reporting

Software

dataset

Synchronize datasets with global knowledge hubs

Jun 2022 – Present

The primary aim of dataset is create well-referenced, well-described, interoperable datasets that can be easily placed on global knowledge graphs using the W3C DataSet and RDF definition, or syncronized via APIs that follow the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange standards.

statcodelists

Make your data codes understood globally

Aug 2023 – Present

Use the standardized codebooks of the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange for international, language-independent, machine-to-machine data exchanges.

eviota

Connect financial and environment accounts, create financial + ESG reports

Jul 2022 – Dec 2025

Our minimum viable product will create sustainability reports (or report components) for greenhouse gases and sustainable water use with applying the Global GHG Accounting & Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry and EFRAG’s proposed concept on connecting European accounting standards and information with sustainability.

iotables

Create economic or environmental impact assessments in any EU country.

Jul 2022 – Present

Tax, employment, green house gas multipliers, induced effects, policy scenarios. Documentation & download

regions

Create from raw survey data more granular statistics in any EU country.

May 2020 – Present

Malta and Germany are hard to compare. Compare provinces with provinces, regions with regions. Documentation & download

retroharmonize

Harmonize questions banks, recycle answers from past surveys

Jul 2020 – Present

Never start a questionnaire from scratch. Recycle questions from question banks, answer from open data repositories, and let your respondents add theirs. Documentation & download

Accomplishments

Invited for contracting Horizon Europe

Horizon Europe Jan 2023

Invited for contracting after a competitive tendering for Europe’s prestigious research and innovation program.

Four observatory partners win MusicAIRE grants

MusicAIRE Jul 2022 – Feb 2023

Four partners using open knowledge and data harmonization of the observatory win competitive grants

Data and analysis for Music Creators’ Earnings report

Music Creators’ Earnings Sep 2021

Placing the new observatory data into a policy context.

AI+Blockchain Product/Market Fit

Yes!Delft Oct 2020

Product-market fit validation in the globally 2nd ranked university-backed incubator to turn CEEMID into a music observatory.

Central European Music Industry Report

Creative Flip Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

Presenting the first, multi-country, reproducible music market report in Europe

Projects

Application Development

We are building and ecosystem of open data, open software and trustworthy algorithms around our data observatories. We collaborate with scientific software developers, and their communities, such as rOpenGov. Our software tools have many thousand users, but they require coding skills.

Greenwashing

Greenwashing refers to false, misleading, overstated or unsubstantiated environmental advertising. We want to help consumers and their agents to challenge greenwashing with scientific facts.

Zero price platforms

Access to finance, activity, and regulatory hurdles indicators

Automated Monitoring

Mapping data between antitrust and economic activity markets

Small- and Medium Sized Enterprizes

Access to finance, activity, and regulatory hurdles indicators

EU Datathon 2021

Reprex, a Dutch start-up enterprise formed to utilize open source software and open data, is looking for partners in an agile, open collaboration to win at least one of the three EU Datathon Prizes.

Contributors of the Digital Music Observatory

Join our open collaboration team as a data curator, developer or business developer! More about contributing: Automated Observatory Contributors’ Handbook.

developers

Andrés García Molina, PhD

Data Scientist

Botond Vitos

Data scientists and developer

Daniel Antal

Developer of open-source statistical software

Kasia Kulma

Contributor, data science and software engineering

Leo Lahti

rOpenGov coordinator

Pyry Kantanen

R package testing and data curation.

data curators

Borbála Dömötörfy

Competition data curator

Daniel Antal

Developer of open-source statistical software

Karel Volkaert

Economic policy data curator

Peter Ormosi

Competition and innovation data curator

Stephan Okhuijsen

Data visualization and dissemination

service development team

Annette Wong

Contributor, digital strategist and product marketer

Suzan Sidal

Business Case Development & Service Design

Robin Nagy

Mentor, Contributor, Business Development

institutional partners

rOpenGov

rOpenGov network

Datagraver

Data dissemination partner

join us

New Curators

Future curator

New Developers

Future co-developer

Observatory Business Associate

Future Team Member

Partners of the Green Deal Data Observatory

Join our open collaboration team as a data curator, developer or business developer! More about contributing: Automated Observatory Contributors’ Handbook.

developers

Andrés García Molina, PhD

Data Scientist

Botond Vitos

Data scientists and developer

Daniel Antal

Developer of open-source statistical software

Kasia Kulma

Contributor, data science and software engineering

Leo Lahti

rOpenGov coordinator

Pyry Kantanen

R package testing and data curation.

data curators

Borbála Dömötörfy

Competition data curator

Daniel Antal

Developer of open-source statistical software

Karel Volkaert

Economic policy data curator

Peter Ormosi

Competition and innovation data curator

Stephan Okhuijsen

Data visualization and dissemination

service development team

Annette Wong

Contributor, digital strategist and product marketer

Suzan Sidal

Business Case Development & Service Design

Robin Nagy

Mentor, Contributor, Business Development

institutional partners

rOpenGov

rOpenGov network

Datagraver

Data dissemination partner

join us

New Curators

Future curator

New Developers

Future co-developer

Observatory Business Associate

Future Team Member

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Reprex Nominated for The Hague Innovators Award

Reprex is a finalist for The Hague Innovators Award 2022, and the prize of the audience, in the startup category with our respectable competitors, Sibö, WECO, STHRIVE and ECOBLOQ.

Nov 15, 2022 9:00 AM — 6:00 PM Fokker Terminal, The Hague

Reprex Nominated for The Hague Innovators Award

Big Data for All - Building Collaborative Data Observatories

Introducing the collaborative data observatories with the example of the music industry and sector.

Nov 3, 2022 5:30 PM — 6:00 PM Kazerne – Home of Design

Big Data for All - Building Collaborative Data Observatories

Crunchconf: Open Data, New Gold Without the Rush

Every year, the EU announces that billions and billions of data are now “open” again, but this is not gold. At least not in the form of …

Oct 8, 2021 10:10 AM Online

Daniel Antal, CFA

Crunchconf: Open Data, New Gold Without the Rush

Reprex Open Data Day 2021

Open Data Day 2021 focusing on environmental, sustainability and public spending data mapping.

Mar 6, 2021 3:30 PM — 5:00 PM Online

Featured Publications

Competition Data Observatory, Daniel Antal

March, 2021

Identifying Roadblocks to Net Zero Legislation

Our first use case is about identifying potential political roadblocks for climate policies. We are combining survey data about attitudes to climate change policies with socio-economic coal mining and and voting data. We examine the relationship between voter attitudes and economic dependency on coal mining.

Martin Senfleben, Thomas Margoni, Daniel Antal, Balazs Bodó, Stef van Gompel, Christian Handke, Martin Kretschmer, Joost Poort, João Quintais, Sebastian Felix Schwemer

February, 2021 In JIPITEC

Ensuring the Visibility and Accessibility of European Creative Content on the World Market: The Need for Copyright Data Improvement in the Light of New Technologies

While the US have already taken steps to provide an integrated data space for music as of 1 January 2021, the EU is facing major obstacles not only in the field of music but also in other creative industry sectors. Weighing costs and benefits, there can be little doubt that new data improvement initiatives and sufficient investment in a better copyright data infrastructure should play a central role in EU copyright policy. A trade-off between data harmonisation and interoperability on the one hand, and transparency and accountability of content recommender systems on the other, could pave the way for successful new initiatives.

Balazs Bodó, Daniel Antal, Zoltan Puha

December, 2020

Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia

The topic of the paper is Library Genesis (LG), the biggest piratical scholarly library on the internet, which provides copyright infringing access to more than 2.5 million scientific monographs, edited volumes, and textbooks. The paper uses advanced statistical methods to explain why researchers around the globe use copyright infringing knowledge resources. The analysis is based on a huge usage dataset from LG, as well as data from the World Bank, Eurostat, and Eurobarometer, to identify the role of macroeconomic factors, such as R&D and higher education spending, GDP, researcher density in scholarly copyright infringing activities.