[euopendata] euopendata Digest, Vol 14, Issue 26

Sat Jan 22 12:45:32 UTC 2011

Ton
Great news re Netherlands. Now how do we go about getting basic KVK data
(company registry) open. At the moment even the incorporation date and type
of company has to be paid for (and yes, I know, the KVK is the Chamber of
Commerce is and therefore not exactly == government).
Cheers
Chris
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>   1. Re: Request for information: recent PSI/open gov data
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> From: Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [euopendata] Request for information: recent PSI/open gov
>        data developments in your country
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> Thanks guys!
> In the Netherlands itself the most recent news is that:
> 1) An official gov data catalogue has been soft-launched in beta yesterday.
> At http://data.overheid.nl (overheid is Dutch for gov) a CKAN instance is
> now in use. There is no team or plan for broader roll-out at the moment it
> seems, but the first milestone has been created anyway.
> 2) In response to the PSI Directive public consultation Dutch gov has
> registered their official stand point: anything that is public info, should
> be reusable by default. Gov will not enforce their copyright, only charge
> incremental costs of distribution, and prefers completely open licensing of
> information and data alike.
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> Interdependent Thoughts
> Ton Zijlstra
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> ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> +31-6-34489360
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> http://zylstra.org/blog
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> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > At the end of next week the European Commission's PSI Group (see
> >
> http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/facilitating_reuse/psigroup/index_en.htm)
> will be meeting in Luxembourg. As you can see in the programme (see link
> > to pdf in the news section in the bottom half of the page
> > http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm) I have
> > been asked to give a 20min overview of 'recent developments' in EU Member
> > States regarding PSI re-use / open gov data. This is a bit of a change
> from
> > the first draft of the agenda, and the follow-up e-mail asks specifically
> > for 'facts' about the current status.
> >
> > So here's my question to you:
> > What are, in your opinion, for your country the most interesting
> > developments regarding PSI/open data. Both in actual progress made, as
> well
> > as e.g. shifting attitudeds within your government institutions etc.
> >
> > I will be grateful for your input, and will use as much as possible of it
> > in my presentation to the EC PSI Group next week.
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Ton
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> > ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> > +31-6-34489360
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