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

Patrick Weber pweber at spatialbit.com
Fri Nov 15 10:57:02 UTC 2013


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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>
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>
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