[OpenGLAM] Paper on re­use of public sector information in cultural heritage institutions

[Paul Keller]

Tom, you are right, i should have added more context (instead i simply copied the announcement that i had send to another Eu centric mailing list where this context is not really needed). With regards to the subject you are indeed right we are talking about the PSI directive issued by the European Union (but that will be obvious to anyone who reads the first few lines of the paper) 

Centrum Cyfrowe does have english language information on its website that can be found here: http://centrumcyfrowe.pl/english/ 
Kennisland (where i am a director) is a non profit consultancy / think tank, that does not receive any structural funding. we fund our activities via the projects we do and in the filed of digitization of cultural heritage that means primarily projects funded by either EU research grants or Dutch government subsidies. See also EU transparency registry entry: 

http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do;TRPUBLICID=3SMTJVKTKQFQ9Sv0FLQ2F29cJMyHY3J5psXfJM0Zr9cGHMXNyvKG!830642930?id=78964012479-25&isListLobbyistView=true

Finally any useful feedback that we receive wil be incorporated in a new version of the paper. Quite obviously that will not have any effect on the presentation at the workshop in Milano (which was also intended as an opportunity to gather feedback from the attendants) /Paul  




> On 11 Oct 2014, at 06:52, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Why not include at least enough basic contextual information to allow us to decide whether or not we should pay attention?
> 
> Apparently "the PSI directive," at least in this context, refers to European Union directive 2003/98/EC
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_re-use_of_public_sector_information
> 
> The Centrum Cyfrowe doesn't appear to have an English language site, but could be loosely translated (at least by Google) as the Polish Center for Digital Design.  Institute for Information Law appears to live here http://www.ivir.nl/index-english.html in the virtual world of University of Amsterdam.  The lead author is from Kennisland, some kind of Dutch consultancy/think tank http://www.kennisland.nl/en/  The first question that probably sprang to mind when you saw "think tank," was "Who's paying them?"
> 
> How much will the feedback being solicited here effect the presentation at today's (yesterday's?) event?
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Paul Keller <pk at kl.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> i would like to draw your attention to the attached paper on the re-­use of public sector information in cultural heritage institutions. The paper was authored by Alek and Katarzyna from Centrum Cyfrowe, Thomas Margoni (Institute for information Law) and myself and tries to draw attention to a number of issues with the PSI directive that if not properly addressed as part of the implementation in the member states may have negative consequences for the acces to digitized cultural heritage collections.
> 
> The paper will be presented today at the ePSI event on cultural heritage data in Milano, but we would encourage all f you to read this and forward it to appropriate contacts in national administration and at cultural heritage institutions. Also if you have feedback on the paper or any questions please feel free to contact me or any of the other authors (email addresses below)
> 
> all the best,
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Margoni <T.Margoni at uva.nl>
> Katarzyna Rybicka <krybicka at centrumcyfrowe.pl>
> Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski at centrumcyfrowe.pl>
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