[euopendata] Study says charge for public data...

Sat Jan 15 14:23:22 UTC 2011

Have also put up a new-item about the study on ePSIplatform.eu
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/french_study_on_charging_for_commercial_psi_re_use
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Ton Zijlstra

ton at tonzijlstra.eu
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http://zylstra.org/blog
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>wrote:

> as my original post is held for moderation due to the mentioned
> attachment, I am sending this again as text only.
>
> On Saturday, January 15, 2011, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > As this thread has been mostly talking about pricing in general, we seem
> to be forgetting that the trigger was a specific study in France for APIE as
> to pricing which said that for commercial use an 'optimal' pricing policy
> was possible without restricting adoption of re-use.
> >
> > Peter posted a link to the management summary in English. The entire
> report (in French) can be found at
> https://www.apiefrance.fr/sections/acces_thematique/reutilisation-des-informations-publiques/etude-economique/view as
> a link to a PDF file at the bottom of the page.
> >
> > In the attachment to this e-mail you find a Google translated version in
> English of that PDF.
> > I have sent an e-mail to the researcher listed as contact person to
> request more info on the method and process of the study. It seems at first
> glance to be a literature/thinking excercize but I may be wrong.
> >
> > My first impressions are the study isn't strong on semantics. 'Value
> added' seems to mean the effort put into releasing the data by the public
> institution. And using the data-information-knowledge ladder is never a good
> sign to me (with my knowledge/change/complexity background), as it implies a
> linear hierarchy that isn't there. Yet that exactly is the basis they use
> for suggesting 'optimal pricing', as the steps up the assumed ladder are
> used as measure for value added.
> > And in this case they also seem to not realize that what constitutes
> information or knowledge to the gov publisher of data may be simply raw data
> for the re-user (as is e.g. the case with the EP's documents that Google
> Translate uses to train their algorithms.)
> >
> > Will come back with more after reading the report more.
> > best,Ton-------------------------------------------
> > Interdependent Thoughts
> > Ton Zijlstra
> >
> > ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> > +31-6-34489360
> >
> > http://zylstra.org/blog
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> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> https://www.apiefrance.fr/sections/acces_thematique/reutilisation-des-informations-publiques/economic-study/view
> >
> > "The authors conclude that in times of tight budgets, the optimal
> > policy may be to charge for commercial reuse at reasonable rates
> > designed to cover the cost of the added value. This policy rightfully
> > shifts a share of the costs of producing PSI from taxpayers to those
> > who obtain a commercial benefit from using it outside its primary
> > purpose. Significantly, this approach would not diminish the overall
> > economic equilibrium of PSI reuse. For non-commercial reuse, setting
> > rates equal to the marginal cost of making the information available
> > would be optimal in most cases, as the willingness to pay for this
> > type of reuse is generally low. The study did not specifically address
> > the case where public entities competes with private operators and/or
> > are required to self-finance part of its budget."
> >
> > European Commission tweeted this with the hashtag #opendata:
> > http://twitter.com/infsoe4/status/25495868148809729
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Peter
> >
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