[euopendata] [open-government] Feedback on the EU Open Data Portal

Sat Jul 6 07:51:36 UTC 2013

Hi,

On dataset page there is a "Licence" item which is linking to a page
that is talking about standard website notice (cookie, personnal
data...) but it's not clear about Dataset licence.

I think the service legal notice should be at the bottom of page, like
usually, and the licence item should point to the data licence, only.

Cheers
Cyrille

2013/7/5 Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>:
> Hi Christian -
>
> Some comments from an outsider looking at the portal for the first time. In
> order to maximise reuse, perhaps there could be a number of usability tests
> to evaluate what layout and features are likely to lead to the greatest
> uptake?
>
>
> Right hand menu
> I'm not sure that it's immediately clear what this does. Perhaps change the
> right hand-side menu to have a heading of "Filter by", then change the boxes
> to "Keyword" "Format", "Publisher"?
>
> I dislike the use of the term keyword here though. While is great that
> resources have been tagged with terms such as "EEC owned data", which are
> likely to resonate much more than geek-centric tags such as
> "eec-owned-data", multi-word tags are not keywords. I wish I wasn't bothered
> by this!
>
>
> Add symbols to common licences?
> Where a common licence has been used, such as CC-BY, perhaps include the
> symbols which may be easy to recognise?
>
>
> Home tab
> The Data tab actually feels like a much better Home tab than the current
> one. I wasn't sure where to start at first.
>
>
> Make resources the priority
> Within a dataset's page, such as
> http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/dataset/02UX0b5MzKefvG3jhWcHQ, the
> resources are quite far down the page. I recommend moving Publisher to below
> the resources list and removing the title for Description. That way, it will
> be immediately clear what the focus of the page is.
>
>
> Suggest a dataset weakness
> I know in New Zealand, there has been quite a lot of work to make the
> "Suggest a dataset" a strong focus of http://data.govt.nz. While the site
> invites people to email the administrators at the end of the video and the
> About page, it is not clear if this would lead to much action.
>
>
> Reuse stories
> Perhaps it would be interesting for the portal to be able to cite examples
> of reuse of particular datasets. That is, as a report writer, I could email
> in to let the administrators know of some material which I am producing.
> This could then be linked to from the data portal.
>
>
>
> On 29 June 2013 04:45, Christian Villum <christian.villum at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We are currently putting together a summary on the EU Open Data Portal (EU
>> ODP) that was launched earlier this year - as a single point of access to a
>> growing range of data from the institutions and other bodies of the European
>> Union.
>>
>> By providing easy and free access to data, the portal aims to promote
>> their innovative use and unleash their economic potential. It also aims to
>> help foster the transparency and the accountability of the institutions and
>> other bodies of the EU.
>>
>> For the summary, which will be presented to the European Commission, we
>> are inviting feedback from the community; specifically we would be
>> interested in hearing about:
>>
>> - General opinions on the EU ODP and it's ability to fill the
>> above-mentioned aims
>> - Uses of the data from the EU ODP; existing case stories or planned
>> future uses
>> - The launch; was the portal announced properly and appropriately and in
>> the right channels?
>>
>> Please help us by voicing your opinion, so we can provide good and useful
>> feedback on the portal.
>>
>> -Christian
>>
>> --
>>
>> Christian Villum
>>
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-- 
Cyrille.