[euopendata] EC Survey on Open Data Licensing in EU Member States

Wed May 28 06:54:19 UTC 2014

Hello all,

The European Commission is currently surveying licensing practices of Open
Data Portals. Please see the information below.

Sander

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*Take part in a survey on licensing practices of Open Data Portals*
The Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations (ISA) programme
of the European Commission has launched a survey on the licensing of Public
Sector Information. The purpose of this survey is to identify the licensing
needs of public administrations when publishing open data. The survey can
be completed via
http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=licensing .

*ISA Action 4.2.5*
The survey is conducted in light of ISA action 4.2.5 on *defining a common
strategy to enable the efficient and effective sharing and reuse of several
types of artefacts linked to the provision of several types of artefacts
linked to the provision of public services in Europe.* Public services can
be implemented faster and more efficiently by using already available
solutions and common services and by learning from the experiences of other
Member States. Using the same solutions and adapting others' best practices
indirectly result in services that are more interoperable and more open.

Public administrations are increasingly called upon opening their data.
Doing so in an uncoordinated manner, going from public administrations
having a clear policy, imposing the public use of licences that already
exist and are well know (such as Creative Commons) to no guidance at all.
Such a multiplicity of approaches limits the the opportunities of sharing
and re-using open data, which would go against the ambitious goals of the
ISA programme.

Please refer to the webpage of ISA action 4.2.5 for more information:
http://ec.europa.eu/isa/actions/04-accompanying-measures/4-2-5action_en.htm
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