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

Fri Jul 19 13:19:16 UTC 2013

Thank you Ankit, very relevant indeed. We'll relay this to the EC!

-Christian

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Ankit Sharma
<ankitsharma.iiitm at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>>
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>>> Christian Villum
>>>
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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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