EUCommunity
| EU Community provides an insight into who is influential in EU Policymaking | ||
| Home page | http://euractory.eucommunity.eu/ | |
| Approach | EU Community's EurActory platform identifies and ranks experts and actors in EU Policy, and shows their influence by assessing 8 different criteria, both on and offline. Its PolicyLine tool visualises policy processes and provides information on significant events and documents (and the people involved). | |
| Phase | Beta version | |
| Tags | database, politics, Europe, European community, and european experts | |
| Practices | Collect | |
| Partners | Intrasoft International, Fondation EurActiv PoliTech, University of Aegean, EurActiv.com, Athens Technology center, I-Europa.sk, Fraunhofer IGD, and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | |
| Project Start Date | 2013 |
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| Launch Date | 2015 |
| Most Recent Update | 2015 |
| Update Frequency | true |
| Thematic Focus | Exposure |
| Issue addressed | Lack of transparency of EU institutions and EU expertises |
| Geographic Focus | Europe |
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
| Query | true |
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| Lists | true |
| Other Visualisation | true |
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
| EurActory is a new and free service, developed by EU Community. EurActory scans the growing amount of information about people involved in EU policy making. It analyses and ranks the information, identifying the relevant experts. | |
| Approach (How?) | EU Community's EurActory platform identifies and ranks experts and actors in EU Policy, and shows their influence by assessing 8 different criteria, both on and offline. Its PolicyLine tool visualises policy processes and provides information on significant events and documents (and the people involved). |
| Language | English |
| Commissioner | European Commission |
| Publisher | EurActive |
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project.
Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Large Network Twitter : (517 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: N..A Alexa: 8059024 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 24/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 46/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Some Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : Last updated : 22/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
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Team size and expertise
Team Size : Large Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : Dedicated Engineering : Dedicated Design : DedicatedProject Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
Project Methodology : Agile Open Source : false Open Data : false Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning : No planningDocumented Practices
Documentation about project practices
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
Data Modeling : List Ethical Collection : Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Trained Collectors Data Collection : Data Verification : Corroborated Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : false Data Licensing : Restricted Ethical Publishing : Signed project Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Scrapable