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

Fri Jul 19 09:44:47 UTC 2013

Hi Christian,
I blogged<http://inferringvalue.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/dados-launch-of-the-brazilian-open-government-data-portal/>about
the general features all open government catalogues must aim for a
few months back. Looking at Brazil's open goverment data portal, the
blog<http://inferringvalue.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/dados-launch-of-the-brazilian-open-government-data-portal/>mentions
that the catalogues must have the following features:

1. Searching datasets
2. Viewing Apps built on those datasets
3. Social Media Integration
4. Look at open data resources (research papers, articles, latest trends
etc.)
5. General features (share the vision, and gather user feedback)

If not already, I suggest same should be aimed for EU Open Data Portal. And
looking at the website it looks great and inviting user feedback from this
email, is already a tick in the box!

Hope this will help.

best wishes,
Ankit

Link to the blog -
http://inferringvalue.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/dados-launch-of-the-brazilian-open-government-data-portal/

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Timothy Vollmer
<tvol at creativecommons.org>wrote:

> sure
>
>
> 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
>>
>>   --
>>
>> Christian Villum
>>
>> Community Manager, Open Government Data + Local Groups Network
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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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Christian Villum
>>>>>
>>>>> Community Manager, Open Government Data + Local Groups Network
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Ankit Sharma
Masters | London School of Economics '10
http://inferringvalue.wordpress.com
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