[open-government] New French data catalogue?

Sun Aug 1 01:40:42 UTC 2010

Hmm.. sounds a lot like a data catalogue! Hope the metadata in the
catalogue is made open!

http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/french_startup_companies_developing_an_open_data_project

"Data Publica, an open data project, has provided the following
preliminary announcement about their exciting project which is under
development. [...] A consortium of three French startup companies are
leading the project development. The main project objectives are to
build and manage a market place where: (i) public and private
organisations which own data can publish their metadata, the way to
access the corresponding data and the license under which it is
usable; (ii) Internet and mobile application developers can search and
visualise the metadata, create new applications and deploy them by
using the data according the licenses granted."

Benoit, Tangui, Benjamin: any thoughts on this from you guys (in
particular re: overlap/intersection with French CKAN instance)?
Presume you are in touch with Data Publica?

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