[open-science] Fwd: IASST-L European Commission survey (non-anonymous) on access and re-use of public sector information - closes 2010-11-30

Wed Sep 22 22:00:48 UTC 2010

Apologies for cross-posting

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Subject: 	IASST-L European Commission survey (non-anonymous) on access 
and re-use of public sector information - closes 2010-11-30
Date: 	Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:13:06 -0400
From: 	Stefan Kramer <stefan.kramer at cornell.edu>
Reply-To: 	iasst-l, IASSIST mail list <iasst-l at lists.columbia.edu>
To: 	iasst-l at lists.columbia.edu <iasst-l at lists.columbia.edu>

Of possible interest:

http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=psidirective2010

Questions include

"Could further action towards opening up public data resources and practical measures facilitating re-use (asset lists of available documents, simplified or no licensing conditions, marginal costs etc.) contribute to unlocking innovation and developing new services, applications and mash-ups?"

"Community-wide products and services using PSI are not limited to national borders. Do you think that divergent national rules can make it more complicated to grasp economic opportunities and to develop cross-border products and services?"

"Currently, the PSI Directive is not applicable to information held by cultural, educational and research establishments and public service broadcasters. In your opinion, as far as information is not covered by third party intellectual property rights (excluded in any case from the scope of the PSI Directive), should the Directive apply to information held by ... [educational and research establishments? cultural establishments? public service broadcasters?]"

"Do you think that all public sector information which is already publicly accessible should also be re-usable?"

"In your opinion, should more re-use friendly formats (e.g. machine readable) be promoted?"

"In your opinion, public sector information should be made available for re-use..." [under various cost/charging models]

"Do you think that the current rules on charging (allowing full cost recovery, together with a reasonable return on investment) should be tightened and/or clarified in respect of how much re-users can be charged?"

"Should the Commission promote practical measures such as national portals (like the www.data.gov.uk or the www.data.gov in the US) with a strong political drive towards opening up the wealth of public sector data?"

Related doc.:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/documents/digital-agenda-communication-en.pdf

(For German-language readers: I found this through the DGI member newsletter via http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Umfrage-der-EU-zur-Wiederverwendung-oeffentlicher-Daten-1076151.html)

Stefan Kramer
Research Data Management Librarian
stefan.kramer at cornell.edu
+1-607-255-4773
Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)
391 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
http://ciser.cornell.edu/

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