Why should you try EnerMaps?
EnerMaps is designed to be user-friendly and offer direct access to the open data you need to make decisions, develop effective policies, or become informed about the energy sector.
Energy planners, energy managers, energy consultants, public administration officers, social innovation experts and data providers will each find their own way of using EnerMaps open data tool.
Two search tools will be available on one gateway:
- Searching by publications and datasets produced,
- Searching by location through an interactive map to zoom on the available data.
EnerMaps will support social innovation experts to accelerate a social change towards civil society in the energy field by providing quality energy data and insights without the need for specialised knowledge.
Different energy data will be available:
✔ data related to renewable data,
✔ energy efficiency data including building stock data,
✔ data related to energy consumption and production,
✔ data related to emissions and climate,
✔ research and innovation investments data.
50 datasets centralised
EnerMaps project works on 50 datasets carefully chosen for their readability and relevance to energy research.
Quality-check of the datasets
Each selected dataset is quality checked both on its technical accuracy after a thorough analysis of the dataset itself and a comparison with other similar data, as well as its ability to contribute to decision making.
Research and professionals from the field connected
EnerMaps also offers a way to connect the research community with other energy professions. Though the gateway, the research community will be able to communicate and disseminate data efficiently, based on existing large scientific repositories.
We are FAIR data
Have you heard about the FAIR data principle?
FAIR data stands for Findable, Accessible,
Interoperable, and Reusable data.
Findable refers to the first step of data search and requires data to be easily found by both humans and computers.
Accessible refers to the way we can access to the data.
Interoperable refers to the way that the data communicates
with applications or workflows.
Resusable refers to the data’s ability to be be replicated and reused easily.
EnerMaps project focuses on the accessibility and the interoperability of the data from former scientific projects at the European level.
50 datasets centralised
EnerMaps project works on 50 datasets carefully chosen for their readability and relevance to energy research.
Quality-check of the datasets
Research and professionals from the field connected
EnerMaps also offers a way to connect the research community with other energy professions. Though the gateway, the research community will be able to communicate and disseminate data efficiently, based on existing large scientific repositories.
We are FAIR data
Have you heard about the FAIR data principle?
FAIR data stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable,
and Reusable data.
Findable refers to the first step of data search and requires data to be easily found by both humans and computers.
Accessible refers to the way we can access to the data.
Interoperable refers to the way that the data communicates with applications or workflows.
Resusable refers to the data’s ability to be be replicated and reused easily.
EnerMaps project focuses on the accessibility and the interoperability of the data from former scientific projects at the European level.
How to use THE EnerMaps tool?
The EnerMaps team will organise during the project development a serie of workshops and trainings sessions to diffuse the existence of this new open source energy tool.
During those capacity buildings activities, the “action-learning” and “train the trainer” techniques will be used.
That should stimulate a guided and integrated discussion process on the potential use and exploitation of existing open datasets for creating innovation in different target groups and civil society.
Those activities will contribute to make evolve the tool and to make sure that will be created ad hoc for the end-users.