Dataset EUMIDA
Published 27th October 2011
Updated 12th March 2012
Resources 18841

Data about European Higher Education Institutions, including some statistics from 2008 regarding numbers of students, foreign students, PhD students etc.

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Sample queries

describes all the countries in this dataset

Query: 
prefix ov: <http://open.vocab.org/terms/> describe ?c { ?c a ov:Country . }
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Query: 
PREFIX aiiso: <http://purl.org/vocab/aiiso/schema#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#> prefix eum: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/eumida/terms/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> select distinct ?institution ?inst_name ?country ?numberOfStudents where { ?ob a qb:Observation ; eum:institution ?institution ; eum:numberOfISCED5Students ?numberOfStudents . ?institution a aiiso:Institution ; rdfs:label ?inst_name ; eum:country ?country . } order by desc(xsd:integer(?numberOfStudents)) ?country
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Query: 
PREFIX aiiso: <http://purl.org/vocab/aiiso/schema#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#> prefix eum: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/eumida/terms/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> select ?country (sum(?numberOfStudents) as ?total_no_of_students) where { ?ob a qb:Observation ; eum:institution ?institution ; eum:numberOfISCED5Students ?numberOfStudents . ?institution a aiiso:Institution ; eum:country ?country . } group by ?country order by desc(?total_no_of_students) ?country
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total numbers of doctorates per country in European Higher Education Institutions

Query: 
PREFIX aiiso: <http://purl.org/vocab/aiiso/schema#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#> prefix eum: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/eumida/terms/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> select ?country (sum(?numberOfDoctorates) as ?total_doctorates) where { ?ob_d a qb:Observation ; eum:institution ?institution ; eum:numberOfDoctoratesAwarded ?numberOfDoctorates . ?institution a aiiso:Institution ; eum:country ?country . } group by ?country order by desc(?total_doctorates)
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Query: 
PREFIX aiiso: <http://purl.org/vocab/aiiso/schema#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#> prefix eum: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/eumida/terms/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> select ?country ?institution (xsd:integer(?numberOfDoctorates)/xsd:integer(?numberOfPostgraduates) as ?ratio) where { ?ob_d a qb:Observation ; eum:institution ?institution ; eum:numberOfDoctoratesAwarded ?numberOfDoctorates . ?ob_p a qb:Observation ; eum:institution ?institution ; eum:numberOfISCED6Students ?numberOfPostgraduates . ?institution a aiiso:Institution ; eum:country ?country . } order by desc(?ratio) ?country
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Query: 
PREFIX aiiso: <http://purl.org/vocab/aiiso/schema#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#> prefix eum: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/eumida/terms/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> select ?institution ?numberOfDoctorates ?numberOfPostgraduates where { ?ob_d a qb:Observation ; eum:institution ?institution ; eum:numberOfDoctoratesAwarded ?numberOfDoctorates . ?ob_p a qb:Observation ; eum:institution ?institution ; eum:numberOfISCED6Students ?numberOfPostgraduates . ?institution a aiiso:Institution ; eum:country ?country . }
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External Sources

The following external sources were used in creating or compiling this dataset
  • http://thedatahub.org/dataset/eumida
Contributed APIs

a basic Linked Data API  providing list endpoints for the classes in the dataset

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use the ?code={code} parameter to provide an iso 3166 country code to get number of undergrad students in each institution in that country

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