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Mon Jun 14 13:02:13 UTC 2010

Hi, Paul. Thanks for sharing those links.

- Josh Tauberer
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On 06/05/2010 07:29 PM, Uhlir, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> Let me contribute several documents for your archives that I produced
> and that deal with open government info:
> -The 2004 UNESCO Policy Guidelines on the Development and Promotion of
> Governmental Public Sector Information, available at:
> http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15862&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
> <http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15862&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>.
>
> - The National Research Council/OECD report on The Socioeconomic Effects
> of Public Sector Information Online: Toward a Better Understanding of
> Different Access and Reuse Policies (2009),
> http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12687.
> - Toward Implementation of the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles, Journal of
> Space Law (2009), http://www.spacelaw.olemiss.edu/JSL/articles/35JSL201.pdf
> Also see the 2008 OECD Recommendation on Public Sector Information and
> related materials at:
> http://www.oecd.org/document/36/0,3343,en_2649_34223_44384228_1_1_1_1,00.html
> FYI, I am currently involved in several activities in this area that may
> be of interest to you. Let me know if you want to follow up on any of them.
> - An EC funded project, that is just beginning, on the Legal Apects of
> Public Sector Information (LAPSI), run out of the Politecnico di Torino,
> http://www.lapsi-project.eu/.
> - Another EC-funded project that is now ending, COMMUNIA, looking at
> public domain info, also out of Turin, http://www.communia-project.eu/.
> - The Group on Earth Observations Data Sharing Task Force, of which I am
> co-chair, that is currently developing an Action Plan on implementing
> the Data Sharing Principles for the Global Earth Observing System of
> Systems, http://earthobservations.org/geoss_dsp.shtml.
> - A US-China Roundtable on Scientific Data Cooperation and a related
> study, http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_047350
> - Chilean national scientific data policy, CONICYT (July 2010)
> - Previously, Measuring European Public Sector Information Resources
> (2003)
> http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/pdfs/mepsir/executive_summary.pdf
> - and generally, the Board on Research Data and Information, at the U.S.
> National Research Council,
> http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/index.htm
> Regards,
> Paul
>
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> *From:* open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Rufus Pollock
> [rufus.pollock at okfn.org]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 04, 2010 1:56 PM
> *To:* Pearce, Matthew
> *Cc:* open-government at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* Re: [open-government] Reporting of Government Finances paper
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> Excellent point Matthew -- so fundamental and obvious that it was
> entirely forgotten! This should be point 1 in v0.2.
>
> Rufus
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> 2010/6/4 Pearce, Matthew <Matthew.Pearce at nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk
> <mailto:Matthew.Pearce at nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk>>
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>     Hello all
>
>     Regarding the Reporting of Government Finances paper: are there any
>     plans to include a recommendation that expenditure information is
>     published under a licence which allows re-use? Much appreciated.
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>     http://opengovernmentdata.org/finances/
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>     Best regards
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