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

Mon Feb 8 07:28:33 UTC 2010

One more addition. Based on the action list I looked up who is the Dutch
contact for epsiplus, which is Udo Pijpker.
I know him from my university years (we were in the same student
association), and a few years back I advised him on some knowledge
management stuff when he was responsible for the programme to connect all
Dutch basic gov databases (so that you only need to give gov your info
once).
So should be no problem getting in touch again with him.

best,
Ton
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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