[euopendata] Other people we should invite to this list?

Sat Dec 19 13:00:03 UTC 2009

Yes, I've heard from Paris. Will update this list once I've spoken to
them. Also I had a really useful conversation with someone in Norway
who I will introduce to this list shortly. Hopefully he'll be able to
give a quick update on developments there.

Also Ton, can you think of anyone we should invite from Denmark who
was involved in their open data registry?

  http://ckan.net/package/dk-digitaliser-datasets

Any other leads from anyone else would be much appreciated.

Antti: I wonder if you've had a chance to have a look at those notes
that we took? Could you send along the Etherpad link?

Best wishes,

Jonathan

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just mailed this message below to Vitor Domingos in Portugal, as he
> mentioned open data initiatives in Portugal. Let's see if we can scout out
> some contacts in .pt.
>
> Jonathan have you heard anything from the Paris bunch already?
>
> best,
> Ton
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM
> Subject: Open Data in Portugal?
> To: vd at prt.sc
>
>
> Hi Vitor,
>
> I just saw you tweet about a opendata.pt initiative. This has my interest,
> as I and others from across the EU are trying to build a network of open
> data advocates across Europe.
> Are you yourself involved with open data? Or can you put me in touch with
> people in Portugal who are?
>
> Myself, I work in the Netherlands on open data projects, more as a connector
> and community builder, and not on coding. Have been doing some work for the
> Ministry for the Interior here, and also initiated ourdata.eu
> Ourdata.eu tries to make examples from across the EU visible: initiatives to
> raise open data awareness, examples of reuse of open data, and data sources
> themselves. Not to build a catalogue of data sources but to make better
> visible what is happening across Europe. Lots of things are happening that
> cannot be easily found because of language differences. I don't know how to
> search for open data in Portuguese, and you would probably have difficulty
> finding things in Dutch. But if you already know something exists, because
> you found an english reference to it, and have a URL to start from, you
> already know what you are looking at, and you will probably feel more
> motivated to dive deeper.
>
> When it comes to catalogues, CKAN (part of the Open Knowledge Foundation,
> http://www.ckan.net/about) has created a catalogue infrastructure which is
> open to others. Currently the German Open Data Network is building a German
> version, that can interact with the CKAN catalogue. Similar things are
> happening in Sweden and Finland (opengov.se, opengov.fi). We would all love
> to start interacting with people in Portugal as well.
>
> Also I would like to point you to a monthly conference call we hold around
> open data to discuss things as mentioned above. More on that call :
> http://wiki.okfn.org/euopendata
>
> Hope to hear from you, and looking forward to hear more about open data in
> Portugal.
>
> best,
>
> Ton
>
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