[euopendata] Third EU Open Data Call (Tue 2010-02-09 at 1600 GMT)

Mon Feb 8 07:19:50 UTC 2010

Hi Antti, all,

I hope to be there in the call Tuesday, but I am not sure if I will make it
back home in time for it. So I'll ping Antti when I get online (which maybe
halfway into the call).

Some updates:

I was at the Danish ODIS conference last Thursday (they hired me to moderate
the discussion), where a.o. John Sheridan and Peter Corbett were speaking.
It was also the final of the open data competition they did in Denmark, with
the Minister for Science announcing the winners. One of them was Michael
Friis whom some of you may know.

Also present and speaking was Javier Hernandez-Ros of the European
commission, who is working on how the EU directive and INSPIRE directive get
implemented in the EU member states. I gave him our Open Data Flowchart, and
he asked us if we could generate more conversation at
http://epsiplatform.eu(who do by the way have a useful newsfeed)
See http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/4330602361/in/set-72157623228165543/for
a pic of Javier with the flow chart. My impression is that Javier is
someone we can very well feed info and our vision to. He seems to have a
very high altitude overview, but less sight of the details. E.g. he thought
'Germany is doing nothing on open data', which is true on a federal level
(see this interview e.g.
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/reflections_on_a_german_data_gov or
original http://blog.kooptech.de/2010/02/datagovde-deutschland/) but not
true on the state-level. E.g. Lower Saxony is in the process of creating an
open data catalogue. Javier Hernandez-Ros would I think be interested in us
feeding this kind of detailed info back to the EU level.

Left in that pic I mentioned you see Olav, from Norway who is making the
Norwegian version of that flow chart (we discussed his translation).
I guess Olav is also the one Jonathan is in contact with to bring into the
call?

The day after the conference I had a meeting at the Danish IT and Telecom
Agency (part of the min of science), to discuss how to move the open data
effort / community in Denmark forward. They were also interested in being
connected to the wider European network, as it will help them to show what
can/should be done, and overcome some of the internal discussions going on
within Denmark.

I haven't been in touch yet with James on how to go about ourdata.eu. Andy
from Austria has added some info in it since the last call. But it is in
need of some love and attention. I'd like it to be a place where open data
stories are collected from around the EU.

James and I have been invited to speak at a gathering of the Dutch Semantic
Web community next Friday. That group was missing in our network until this
point, but that bridge is now getting build. See
http://esw.w3.org/topic/DutchSemanticWebMeetups

That's all for now. Hope to talk to you tomorrow.

best,
Ton
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> EU Open Data People
>
> The third call is getting closer (not this, but next Tuesday 9th of Feb.).
> The call was decided to be limited strictly to one hour this time. As I
> (Antti Poikola, also known as Jogi) promised to host the call, I have few
> tasks for you all:
>
> 1.
> Please go to the Etherpad and mark there if yo are able to participate in
> the call, and add your skype-name, so I know who should I try to reach
> http://etherpad.com/m2U136pNR9
>
> 2.
> I picked from the older Etherpads the introductions of "EU Open Data
> People" and added those in wiki, Please check your own story and update it
> there:
> http://wiki.okfn.org/euopendata/Introductions
>
> 3.
> Send here on the list in advance if you have some specific topics in mind.
>
> 4.
> Action items from last call, you may comment the status:
>
> -Jonathan Gray: to invite representative from Norway
>
> -All: would be great to comment on + fill in:
> http://opengovernmentdata.org/form/
>
> -Everyone hold the days 23-25 April open in your calendars for the OKN
> conference
>
> -James and Ton will look on how we could all use http://ourdata.eu/ as
> common place to post things about national events.
>
> -One-to-one discussions between Apps for Democracy contest-organizers
> (Atleast Jogi and Daniel... who else)
>
> -Everybody, get to know your national representative of ePSI:
>
> http://epsiplatform.eu/contacts/european_public_sector_information_psi_platform_contacts/national_representative_organisations_european_psi_platform
>
> -James, Jogi, Daniel: Organize the datacatalog/registry workshop:
> http://apoikola.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/open-government-data-catalogs/
>
> BR, Antti "Jogi" Poikola (Finland)
>
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