[euopendata] Share-PSI.eu: Call for Participation

Thu Mar 24 16:26:37 UTC 2011

Dear all,

Share-PSI has launched a Call for Participation

	http://share-psi.eu/cfp/

Submit a position paper with Deadline: 15 April 2011 to participate in a

Workshop: Removing the roadblocks to a pan European market for Public Sector Information re-use

Please see details below.

Kind Regards
Daniel Dietrich

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Daniel Dietrich

The Open Knowledge Foundation
Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
www.okfn.org  -  www.opendefinition.org

Project Coordinator of the Open Definition
Coordinator of the Working Groups:
Open Government Data & Open Data in the EU

Workshop: Removing the roadblocks to a pan European market for Public Sector Information re-use

Background
Over the last two years, the publication of public sector data on the Web has picked up significant momentum.

Within the public sector information community, growing support for Open Data principles and technological choices such as Linked Data is emerging.

At the same time, others in the public sector information space are struggling with basic steps. Issues around data provenance, data quality, and the ability to mix public sector information across different countries (often generated for different purposes) are often ill-understood at this stage.

The Digital Agenda for Europe identifies public sector information as an important stimulant for content markets in the EU. It further identifies standards and interoperability as key enablers for the development of new applications.

This workshop is organized within the context of Share-PSI.eu, a multistakeholder initiative toward the Digital Agenda for Europe initiated by W3C and ETSI. Workshop results will be presented at the Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels (16/17 June 2011).

Goals and Scope
The purpose of this workshop is to survey experiences with the re-use of public sector information in Europe and beyond, with a focus on identifying critical obstacles to pan-European interoperability and to the development of pan-European services, and steps to address these obstacles. Workshop discussions are expected to focus on:

	• use cases that can help highlight missing enablers
	• technical standards and other technical enablers for interoperability, including metadata and vocabulary standards
	• legal and licensing principles concerning the sharing and re-use of public sector information
The results from this workshop will provide direction and give input into the development and standards communities’ further work on public sector information, and to policy makers. Key outcomes and use cases will be presented at the Digital Agenda Assembly on 16/17 June in Brussels.

Position Papers/topics of interest
Workshop participants must submit a 1-5 page position paper to <submit at share-psi.eu>.

The program committee will ask the submitters of particularly salient position papers to present their positions at the workshop. Accepted position papers will be published on the workshop Web site.

Topics for position papers include:

	• Use cases: applications that prove the value of applications based on PSI re-use and/or highlight some of the major stumbling blocks towards a pan-EU re-use.
	• Standards and key interoperability enablers for data, to enable the development and delivery of PSI related services in a device and platform independent, accessible, and cross-borders way:
		• data formats and frameworks
		• formats to enable the curation and integration of metadata for public sector data sets
		• practical obstacles toward the successful delivery of public sector information
		• emerging and proposed standards to track the authenticity and provenance of public sector information
		• the interaction between technical interoperability enablers and the economic impact of public sector information
	• Legal issues:
		• Ownership and intellectual property regimes
		• Licences (standard public licenses and their compatibility issues; ad hoc licenses and their most common clauses, etc.)

Important dates
Submission of position papers: 15 April 2011
Notification of acceptance: 22 April 2011
Program published: 29 April 2011

Program Committee

	• Jose Manuel Alonso (CTIC)
	• Francois Bancilhon (Mobile Services Initiative and Data Publica)
	• Daniel Dietrich (Open Knowledge Foundation)
	• Margot Dor (ETSI)
	• Renke Fahl-Spiewack (init AG)
	• Katleen Janssen (LAPSI)
	• Eric Legale (Global Cities Dialogue)
	• Federico Morando (NEXA Centre)
	• Giorgio Prister (Major Cities of Europe)
	• Hervé Rannou (ITEMS International)
	• Thomas Roessler (W3C)
	• John L Sheridan (The [UK] National Archives)
	• Jean-Baptiste Soufron (Cap Digital)
	• Raphael Troncy (Eurecom/Datalift)
	• Tim Vollmer (Creative Commons)
	• Ton Zijstra (epsiplatform)

Hosting and Venue information
The workshop will be hosted by the European Commission in Brussels on 10/11 May. There will be no fee to participate in the workshop. Reimbursement of travel expenses will not be available.

Organizers and Contact
Organizers:

	• Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr at w3.org>
	• Margot Dor, ETSI <margot.dor at etsi.org

European Commission Contacts:

	• Richard Swetenham
	• Marta Nagy-Rothenass

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