“This portal is about transparency, open government and innovation. The Open Data Portal will provide access to open public data from the European Union. It will also provide access to data of other Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies at their request. The published data will be downloadable by everyone interested to facilitate reuse, linking and the creation of innovative services. Moreover, this Data Portal will promote and build literacy around Europe’s data. The data publishers, application developers and the general public will be able to use new functionalities enabled by the semantic technologies.”