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Opening Remarks, Richard Swetenham
1. Removing the roadblocks to a pan-
European market for Public Sector
Information re-use
#daa11psi
Share-PSI workshop,
Brussels, 10 - 11 May 2011
Richard Swetenham
Information Society and Media Directorate
European Commission
2. PSI directive
• builds on national rules on
access to documents
• allow commercial re-use
• charges limited to cost
recovery
• transparency, no cross-
subsidy, no exclusivity
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3. Value of PSI increasingly recognised
• Conclusions of the European Council (4 February 2011),
in particular :
• 21. The Commission is invited to make rapid progress in
key areas of the digital economy to ensure the creation
of the Digital Single Market by 2015, including the
promotion and protection of creativity, the
development of e-commerce and the availability of
public sector information
• http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/do
cs/pressdata/en/ec/119175.pdf
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4. Review of PSI Directive
• ensure level playing field where
government body has business
activity
• clarify terminology (right of re-
use)
• review scope (exceptions)
• results of public consultation
online
• Commission decision on options
Nov 2011
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5. SharePSI "big idea" May
Workshop
• 10/11 May, Brussels, 1.5 day
workshop
• interoperability and re-use for public
sector information
• What is holding things up? What can be
done?
• Use cases; technical standards; legal and
licensing aspects of Public Sector
Information (licensing in particular)
• Call for Participation: position papers by
15 April
• http://share-psi.eu/
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6. Digital Agenda Assembly
workshop 16 June
• 01. Open data and re-use of public
sector information
• The workshop will bring together
stakeholders to help the Commission
develop its strategy for open data for the
EU, taking into consideration the review
of the Public Sector Information Directive
• The workshop will build on the results of
Share-PSI.eu
• http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf
/daa11/item-display.cfm?id=5963
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7. Open data challenge
• Apps competition for PSI
• €20,000 prizes
• Four main strands:
– Ideas
– Apps
– Visualisations
– Datasets
• Open from 5 April until 5 June.
Prizes at DAA
• http://www.opendatachallenge.org/
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8. Hack4Europe!
• Europeana will host hackathons stimulating
the use of its cultural heritage metadata.
Europeana holds metadata on over 16
million cultural heritage objects.
• Creative reuse of the Europeana content
based on the Europeana Application
Programming Interface (API) and Linked
Open Data
• Four European cities:
– London, Barcelona, Poznan, Stockholm
• Each hackathon will last one or two days and
will bring together up to 30 developers.
• 7 June 2011 - 11 June 2011. Prizes at DAA
• http://version1.europeana.eu/web/api/hackathons
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9. data.gov.eu
• Commission data portal 2012
– Relationship between data portal and
existing sites with big datasets
(Eurostat, Eur-Lex, CORDIS etc)
– Inventory of datasets
– Project design and implementation
• Pan-European data portal 2013
– Relationship between pan-European
and national portals
– Governance
– Sustainability
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