[open-government] Feedback on the EU Open Data Portal

Tue Jul 2 18:17:11 UTC 2013

Just as a clarification, the point of asking the Commission about licensing
would be to push for open, standardized licenses as the way to go. The
updated PSI directive suggests this, and Kroes made a reference to it in
her speech promoting Europeana and their use of CC0 (see
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/open-data-agreement/). So if the EC
is leaning toward open licenses for others' content and data, why not for
that material coming directly out of the EC? And, there have been other
good moves from the US gov in recommending standardized open licenses and
public domain tools (see http://project-open-data.github.io/open-licenses/),
as well as the OGL v2.0 now coming into alignment with the Open Definition.

tvol

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Timothy Vollmer <tvol at creativecommons.org>wrote:

> I'm interested in the IP/licensing piece. We might suggest that the
> Commission conduct an analysis (if they haven't already) on the benefits
> and drawbacks of adopting the December 2011 decision on reuse of Commission
> documents [1] as opposed to adopting or recommending the use of
> standardized open licenses and public domain legal tools aligned with the
> Open Definition [2]. Would this be useful?
>
> tvol
>
>
> [1]
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:330:0039:0042:EN:PDF
> [2] http://opendefinition.org/licenses/
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Christian Villum <
> christian.villum at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We are currently *putting together a summary on the EU Open Data Portal
>> (EU ODP) <http://open-data.europa.eu/>* that was launched earlier this
>> year - as a single point of access to a growing range of data from the
>> institutions and other bodies of the European Union.
>>
>> By providing easy and free access to data, the portal aims to promote
>> their innovative use and unleash their economic potential. It also aims to
>> help foster the transparency and the accountability of the institutions and
>> other bodies of the EU.
>>
>> For the summary, which will be presented to the European Commission, we
>> are *inviting feedback from the community*; specifically we would be
>> interested in hearing about:
>>
>> - General opinions on the EU ODP and it's ability to fill the
>> above-mentioned aims
>> - Uses of the data from the EU ODP; existing case stories or planned
>> future uses
>> - The launch; was the portal announced properly and appropriately and in
>> the right channels?
>>
>> Please help us by voicing your opinion, so we can provide good and useful
>> feedback on the portal.
>>
>> -Christian
>>
>> --
>>
>> Christian Villum
>>
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