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

Fri Jul 5 07:14:57 UTC 2013

Hi Timothy,

Thank you for this feedback, very useful indeed. Would it be okay if I
include your contact details in the report, thereby inviting potential
follow-up on their side?

-Christian

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Timothy Vollmer <tvol at creativecommons.org>wrote:

> 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
>>>
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