[euopendata] A plan to liberate data from the EU organisations?

Sat Feb 13 12:37:09 UTC 2010

Hi Peter,

This is a relevant question. I think this would be a very good question to
put before Javier Hernandez-Ros of the EC PSI team, and his colleagues.

I know that the EU does work on opening up their PSI. For instance the
translations of all the documents relevant to the EU are used to feed into
translate.google.com as text corpus to help improve the translations.

Let's approach the EC PSI team about this.

best,

Ton
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> As I understand, the EU bureaucracy itself is not affected by the PSI
> directive (it is only applicable for member states). It is likely that
> the EU organisations maintain a large number of valuable datasets that
> could increase transparency and improve efficiency.
>
> My own experience with getting access to raw data from the
> Publications Office of the European Union was not a pleasant one. When
> I was building the eurlex.nu website I wanted the raw XML for the
> various legal documents (e.g. directives), but was told it would cost
> me around 10000 EUR to get them. Also, it was not clear how a citizen
> could question that practice.
>
> How do we organize our efforts to create a pressure for the EU orgs
> themselves to release data? A suggestion:
>
> 1. List all datasets from EU orgs that we know of (available online or not)
> 2. Show how few of them are openly available
> 3. Create a petition to urge EU decision makers to adopt the spirit of
> the PSI directive for the EU bureaucracy itself.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> [1]: http://publications.europa.eu/
>
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