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Open Government Data in Europe Open Knowledge Foundation workshop, Budapest, 19 May 2011 Richard Swetenham Information Society and Media Directorate European Commission
Transcript of Open Government Data in Europe
Open Government Data in Europe
Open Knowledge Foundation workshop, Budapest, 19 May 2011
Richard SwetenhamInformation Society and Media DirectorateEuropean Commission
The European Commission and open data (1)
Policy MakerPSI, INSPIRE, Aarhus Directives
Data Collector
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Eurostat, Tenders Electronic Daily
Funding AgencyResearch & Innovation
LOD2, LATC projects
Networking, Awareness raising
The European Commission and open data (2)
• Cultural heritage–Europeana, digital libraries, museums and archives
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museums and archives
• Scientific information
• Public sector information
PSI directive
• builds on national rules on access to documents
• allow commercial re-use
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• charges limited to cost recovery
• transparency, no cross-subsidy, no exclusivity
Apps Apps Apps
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RED ... local or regional governmental authoritiesGREEN ... local or regional private initiativesYELLOW ... nationwide governmental authoritiesBLUE ... nationwide private initiativesPURPLE ... transnational catalogue
Value of PSI increasingly recognised
• Conclusions of the European Council (4 February 2011), in particular :
• 21. The Commission is invited to make rapid progress in key areas of the digital economy to ensure the creation
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key areas of the digital economy to ensure the creation of the Digital Single Market by 2015, including the promotion and protection of creativity, the development of e-commerce and the availability of public sector information
• http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ec/119175.pdf
Food for thought
Are stakeholders maximising the PSI re-use full potential ?
1. Governments2. Public Sector Holders3. Re-users
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3. Re-users
Is greater deployment/ awareness raising needed ?
Are the missed opportunities for PSI/Data re-use in Hungary ?
Review of PSI Directive
• ensure level playing field where government body has business activity
• clarify terminology (right of re-
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• clarify terminology (right of re-use)
• review scope (exceptions)
• results of public consultation online
• Commission decision on options Nov 2011
SharePSI "big idea" May Workshop
• 10/11 May, Brussels, 1.5 day workshop
• interoperability and re-use for public sector information
• What is holding things up? What can be
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• What is holding things up? What can be done?
• Use cases; technical standards; legal and licensing aspects of Public Sector Information (licensing in particular)
• Call for Participation: position papers by 15 April
• http://share-psi.eu/
Digital Agenda Assembly workshop 16 June
• 01. Open data and re-use of public sector information
• The workshop will bring together stakeholders to help the Commission develop its strategy for open data for the
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develop its strategy for open data for the EU, taking into consideration the review of the Public Sector Information Directive
• The workshop will build on the results of Share-PSI.eu
• http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/daa11/item-display.cfm?id=5963
Open data challenge
• Apps competition for PSI• €20,000 prizes• Four main strands:
– Ideas
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– Ideas – Apps – Visualisations – Datasets
• Open from 5 April until 5 June. Prizes at DAA
• http://www.opendatachallenge.org/
Hack4Europe!
• Europeana will host hackathons stimulating the use of its cultural heritage metadata. Europeana holds metadata on over 16 million cultural heritage objects.
• Creative reuse of the Europeana content based on the Europeana Application
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based on the Europeana Application Programming Interface (API) and Linked Open Data
• Four European cities:– London, Barcelona, Poznan, Stockholm
• Each hackathon will last one or two days and will bring together up to 30 developers.
• 7 June 2011 - 11 June 2011. Prizes at DAA• http://version1.europeana.eu/web/api/hackathons
data.gov.eu
• Commission data portal 2012– Relationship between data portal and existing sites with big datasets (Eurostat, Eur-Lex, CORDIS etc)
– Inventory of datasets
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– Inventory of datasets– Project design and implementation
• Pan-European data portal 2013– Relationship between pan-European and national portals
– Governance– Sustainability
Scientific information
• Hearing - Luxembourg 30.5.2011
• Who is concerned: European scientific publishing sector,
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scientific publishing sector, European researchers, European funders, European consumers and society at large.
• Possible Communication, Recommendation Nov 2011
Selected Links
The Digital Agenda for Europehttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda
Material on the PSI Directivehttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm
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ePSI platform http://www.epsiplus.net/
LAPSI http://www.lapsi-project.eu/
Commission Open Access Policieshttp://www.slideshare.net/ccbuhr/access-to-scientific-
information-the-role-of-the-eu-7094764
Eurostat Statistics Portalhttp://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/statistics/the
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