[euopendata] [open-government] EU Consultation on gov data re-use.

Thu Nov 21 20:00:31 UTC 2013

FYI for those still wanting to submit answers to the consultation
questionnaire (due tomorrow), here are the responses of several groups,
including CC HQ and CC Europe, LAPSI, and Communia Association. You can use
the answers and tailor them.

https://docs.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/document/d/1iEYkx42tpkaPOj-dQB5s02-h-GD2dt5K-j-886jjzpM/edit#

timothy

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Patrick Weber <pweber at spatialbit.com>wrote:

> Dont know if anyone on this list can make it, but there will be a public
> meeting in Luxembourg on the 25th of November to discuss the new PIS
> directives. We will be attending !
>
>
> https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/public-hearing-guidelines-recommended-standard-licences-datasets-and-charging-reuse
>
> Public hearing on guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets
> and charging for the reuse
>  Events: 25/11/2013, Euroforum building, 10, rue Stumper, L-2557
> Luxembourg
>
> As part of our public consultation process <http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/consultation-guidelines-recommended-standard-licences-datasets-and-charging-re-use-public>on
> the planned guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets and
> charging for the reuse of public sector information, the
> European Commission invites you to participate in a public hearing.
>
> Please see the attached document with an agenda.
>
> *Practical information:*
>
> *If you would like to attend the hearing, it is necessary for security
> reasons to register by contacting Ms. Styliani CHARTAMPILA (see contact
> below).*
>
> Plan of the EUFO building <http://ec.europa.eu/oil/img/clocheBig.gif>
>
> How to get here<http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/language-technologies/contacts_en.html>
> Styliani Chartampila <cnect-g3 at ec.europa.eu>
>  Related Documents:
> Public hearing on guidelines on recommended standard licences<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=2969>
>
>
> On 2 September 2013 11:16, 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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>> Interdependent Thoughts
>> Ton Zijlstra
>>
>> ton at tonzijlstra.eu
>> +31-6-34489360
>>
>> http://zylstra.org/blog
>>
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