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

Thu Dec 24 09:00:16 UTC 2009

HI Jonathan, all,

Denmark, yes I am in touch with the people behind digitaliser.dk.
They're the ITST team (National IT and telecom agency) at the ministry of
science, technology and innovation. They are organizing a conference on Feb
4 around open data in Denmark, aimed at civil servants, which they hired me
to moderate.
I originally met them at the Reboot conference in Copenhagen last June.
Will talk to Cathrine Lippert (my ITST contact) if they're interested in
joining the list.

Someone we should invite to the list from Denmark is Michael Friis. He's the
one behind the alternative version of the Danish website for parliament
(rumour has it Parliament actually thinks his site his better than their own
one) See http://ourdata.eu/node/19
His e-mail address friism at gmail.com

best,

Ton

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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Interdependent Thoughts
> > Ton Zijlstra
> >
> > ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> > +31-6-34489360
> >
> > http://zylstra.org/blog
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > ---------- 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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> > Ton Zijlstra
> >
> > ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> > +31-6-34489360
> >
> > http://ourdata.eu
> > http://zylstra.org/blog
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>
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