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

[Timothy Vollmer]

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On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Christian Villum <christian.villum at okfn.org
> wrote:

> 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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>>>>
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