[open-energy] Draft 'about' text

Wed Feb 2 22:38:14 GMT 2011

For the paragraph about the source of the data, some suggestions:

1) heading to read "Where are the data from" (ie not "where is" - "data" is a plural)

2) for the first sentence: 
"The Europe's Energy project is mainly based on data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, which provides official statistics on European Union Member States." (could write "EU" for European Union)

and

3) througout: write "Member States" with capital M, capital S.

4) in credits mention also Pekka Loesoenen for Eurostat and, if possible, write "Eurostat, European Commission" (we are a Commission DG, like INFSO).

John

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John Allen 
Head of Unit 
Dissemination (Eurostat/D4) 
post: Eurostat, Bech Building, L-2920 Luxembourg 
tel: +352 4301 37291 
email: john.allen at ec.europa.eu 
Eurostat: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat <http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat> 
CIRCA: http://circa.europa.eu/dsis <http://circa.europa.eu/dsis>  
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From: open-energy-bounces at lists.okfn.org on behalf of Jonathan Gray
Sent: Wed 02/02/2011 19:46
To: Open Energy Visualization and Data project
Subject: [open-energy] Draft 'about' text

Following is a very brief draft 'about' text for the website. If
anyone has any comments or suggestions for additions or amendments
please let us know ASAP, as this will be translated into several
different EU languages in the next few hours:

http://wiki.okfn.org/Europes_Energy

Copied below (sans links) for your convenience!

All the best,

Jonathan

### What is the Europe's Energy project?

Countries around the world are taking measures to cut greenhouse gas
emissions in order to mitigate climate change. Member states of the
European Union have agreed on targets aimed at significantly reducing
greenhouse gas emissions by cutting energy consumption by 20% and
increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix to 20% by 2020.
The Europe's Energy project gives users a set of visual tools to put
these targets into context and to understand and compare how progress
is being made towards them in different countries.

### How can I keep touch or get involved?

You can sign up to our email announcement list to receive occasional
updates about what we're up to. If you have a comment or suggestion,
you can email us at energy at okfn.org. Work in this area is ongoing and
we are always interested in having extra pairs of eyes and extra pairs
of hands to help out! If you'd like to get involved, please come and
say hello on our open-energy discussion list, or ping @okfn or @jwyg
on Twitter.

### Where is the data from?

The Europe's Energy project is mainly based on data from Eurostat, the
largest collection of statistical information on European member
states. The breakdown of imports is from IEA. Colour coding for
geothermal is based on LCA-data of Karlsdottir et al (2010). Colour
coding for nuclear energy uses the average of the LCA-estimates of
British Energy (2005), Weisser (2007), Fthenakis & Kim (2007), ISA
(2006). All other LCA-conversion factors are from EUmayors.

### Who is behind this?

Europe's Energy is a mini-project of the Open Knowledge Foundation,
put together in just under two weeks by Gregor Aisch, Jonathan Gray,
Dirk Heine, Friedrich Lindenberg, Nathaniel Scheer and Guo Xu. It was
supported by the European funded LOD2 project, which will bring
together open datasets from local, regional and national public bodies
across Europe for all to reuse. It is based on ideas that came out of
the London Eurostat Hackday event in December 2010.

A big thank you to all of the following people and projects for all of
their help and support: John Allen (Eurostat), Sören Auer (University
of Leipzig), Stefano Bertolo (European Commission), Margit Beutler
(Fraunhofer Fokus), Judit Bognar, Francis Irving (ScraperWiki),
Catherine Kunkel, Dana Manescu (Press Office, European Council), the
Noun Project, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou (Regards Citoyens) and Uli
Schöber (Independent Designer).

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
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