[euopendata] [od-discuss] [open-government] [Open-data-census] EU Consultation on gov data re-use.

Mon Nov 11 22:14:24 UTC 2013

It should definitely be of interest, so I am raising it again. However, I
am skeptical that any of us have time to address it :/

Luis
On Oct 20, 2013 11:24 AM, "Baden Appleyard" <b.appleyard at ausgoal.gov.au>
wrote:

> Good question Augusto,
>
> Perhaps this is something that might also be of interest to the Advisory
> Council on the open definition...
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> Kind regards
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> On 16 October 2013 22:57, Augusto Herrmann <augusto.herrmann at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> A month and half later, I can see no further dicussion on this thread on
>> the mailing lists. Has anyone contributed to or is considering contributing
>> to the consultation by suggesting a recommendation of standard licences
>> related to the Open Definition?
>>
>> I don't live on the EU, but I think an EU recommendation like this can
>> influence open data licence decisions elsewhere in the world.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Augusto Herrmann
>> Open Data Team - Ministry of Planning - Brazil
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The European Commission last Friday has opened a consultation based on
>>> three questions the new PSI Directive gives the EC a guiding role in.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/consultation-guidelines-recommended-standard-licences-datasets-and-charging-re-use-public
>>>
>>> The revised Directive <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:175:0001:0008:EN:PDF>calls
>>> on the European Commission to assist the Member States in implementing the
>>> Directive in a consistent way by issuing guidelines on
>>>
>>>    - recommended standard licenses,
>>>    - datasets to be released/improved as a matter of priority and
>>>    - charging for the reuse of documents.
>>>
>>> The objective of the consultation is therefore to seek the views of
>>> stakeholders on specific issues to be addressed in the 3 sets of guidelines.
>>>
>>> I think this is an important consultation, that needs a significant
>>> input from the wider open data community.
>>>
>>> When it comes to licensing and charging, there is I think a significant
>>> difference between established (commercial) re-users (which are sure to
>>> respond to the consultation) and 'new' users of data. Innovation, societal
>>> resilience and grass-roots effort is best served with getting as close to
>>> the open definition as possible, whereas established players individually
>>> from their perspective are best served by staying away from the open
>>> definition: licensing and charging are great ways to put a barrier to entry
>>> on the low end of your existing market or niche, and thus protecting
>>> yourself from competition or challengers.
>>>
>>> When it comes to prioritizing datasets for release or improvement I, as
>>> lead editor for the Open Data Census (http://census.okfn.org/), am
>>> eager to hear your thoughts, and if possible welcome you to the Open Data
>>> census workshop in 2 weeks at the OK Conference in Geneva (
>>> http://okcon.org/open-data-government-and-governance/session-d/). To me
>>> the datasets we currently track are 'infrastructure' (geo, spending,
>>> voting, company register and such, transport), whereas I suspect that to
>>> take on certain societal issues different core data sets are needed
>>> (healthcare, education data, financial system, energy / water, etc).
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>
>>> Ton
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