[euopendata] [psi-workers] Update on pan-European open data competition

Tue Mar 15 15:28:06 UTC 2011

Dear Paul,

Thanks for this introduction and welcome on the EU Open Data working group mailing list! It's really exciting to partner up with Openforum Academy for this competition!

On 15.03.2011, at 14:00, Paul Meller wrote:

> Hi all,
> Paul Meller from Openforum Academy here. Quick introduction. OFA http://openforumacademy.org/ has been working on an open data competition since before Christmas. We agreed to pool forces with OKF for an event in June, which is why I've been added to this list. OFA is a recently created sister organization to Openforum Europe. We have Google and IBM, two of our members, involved with the competition and hope to get more corporate participation in the coming weeks. We have been in touch with Neelie Kroes' office and have been assured that she will hand out prizes at the Digital Assembly event on June 16/17.
> 
> Regarding prizes, Jose I like the idea of a 'best dataset opened' category. But how do you judge one data liberation against another? Maybe it could be a race to see who can liberate the most data during the duration of the datafest, and measure it in bites of data. So instead of 'best dataset opened', 'most datasets opened'. Any thoughts?

I also like the idea for an extra price on "best/most data opened" next to the main prices for applications. I think we could come up with a set of criteria, such as one "star" for:

- PSI that was not available before at all
- PSI that was somehow available before but now is available: 
	- in an open / machine processable format
	- as raw data for bulk download
	- via an API
	- under an open* license
- PSI of high public or economic interest (hard to judge)

We could also simply go with Tim Berners-Lee's "5 star meme" for linked data:

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
also see: http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/lod-badges/

> 
> However, the main focus of the competition should be on innovative reuse of the data. That should be reflected in the prizes. Kudos is a big driver but I think we need to offer cash for the apps developers; we want to get the best quality entries possible.

Agree.

> 
> On submission of ideas, I don't have a problem with text submissions. Andreas, this part of the competition is aimed at people with ideas but not necessarily the skills or the time to realize them. Video submissions would be nicer from a presentational point of view, even if they were just a talking head explaining their idea filmed on a smart phone and posted on Youtube. But text submissions should be allowed too. 

Thanks for the clarification.

> 
> We also need to start thinking about judges. I suggest a panel of five, to include well known names from the open data community, a senior European Commission official and one OFA Fellow. They should come from as many EU countries as possible. If there's general support for this I'll look into the Commission official and the OFA Fellow. Any suggestions re the open data community?

Excellent!

Out of my head I would suggest for the OD community:

- Rufus Pollock (OKF)
- Ton Zijlstra (ePSIplatform)
- Thomas Roessler (W3C)
- ... Would also be good to have some women here and also a good distribution along EU member states!

Best regards
Daniel

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> 
> Apologies for such a long email. I'll keep them short in future.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
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> 
> 
> On 15 March 2011 12:59, Federico Morando <federico.morando at polito.it> wrote:
> On 03/15/2011 12:46 PM, Jose L. Marin wrote:
> I think the idea of a prize for "best dataset opened during the call" is
> great to involve PSI holders.
> And, by the way, this is a prize that does not necessarily need any budget... it's just a matter of visibility and awareness in the open data community...
> 
> Best,
> 
> Federico
> 
> PS
> The original idea was sent on 03/01/2011 02:14 PM, by François Bancilhon, who wrote:
>> Would it make sense to have a category for data sets? people can bring their data set, and the one which has the best format, the best potential for interesting apps, etc. wins
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