[open-sustainability] Buildings Performance Knowledge Platform - Making Use of (Linked) Open Data

[Townsend J.H.]

> 
> a few days ago the GBPN (Global Buildings Performance Network) Knowledge
> Platform has been launched - see: http://www.gbpn.
> 
> It has been designed as a participative knowledge hub and data hub harvesting, 
> sharing and curating best practice policies in building energy performance globally. 
> 
> Available in English and soon in Mandarin, this new web-based tool of the 
> Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN) aims to stimulate collective 
> research and analysis from experts worldwide to promote better decision-making 
> and help the building sector effectively reduce its impact on climate change. 
> 
> To sustain and accelerate change in the building sector, the GBPN encourages 
> open and transparent access to good quality and verifiable data. 
> The data can be used and re-used in HTML, PDF and machine readable raw data 
> (CSV) formats – provided by a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 3.0 FR) license. 
> 
> 
> Read the full blogpost about all GBPN services and tools as well as the 
> used technologies here: http://bit.ly/143SWBL
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> All the best - martin
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