The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Today we’re pleased to announce the winners of the Open Data Challenge, Europe’s biggest open data competition. The 1st prizes for each category will be awarded later today by European Commission Vice President, Neelie Kroes at the Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels.

Meanwhile, you can see a sneak preview of the winners at the:

We’re also very pleased to announce a major new release of PublicData.eu, which brings together data from local, regional and national catalogues from across Europe. You can read more details about the release in the announcement, and see it in action here. More soon!