Ramon de Louw (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Netherlands) presented at the 2nd International Workshop: Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition in The Hague, 10 September 2015.
1. The Dutch approach to
Open Data
Ramon de Louw
Ministry of Economic Affairs
CIO Office
r.p.m.de.louw@minez.nl
@Ramon1974
2. Godan 2nd international workshop
Ministry of Economic Affairs2
Open Data: (Legal) framework
2003: PSI Directive (2003/98/EC)
2010: Digital Agenda for Europe
2013: Revision of Directive
2011: Digital Agenda NL
2012: member of Open Government Platform
2013: Open geodata breakthrough project
2015: Wet hergebruik van overheidsinformatie
Under construction: NODA
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Ministry of Economic Affairs3
Open geodata breakthrough project
AgroFood
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So, what’s next?
Present situation:
Steady increase of open (public) data
but:
- Still too instrumental
- Not open by design
Challenge: let the data work for us!
Connect with stakeholders
and:
-increase interoperability
-Share more data!
Hinweis der Redaktion
Some important elements of the PSI Directive
– Charges for re-use have to be limited at a ceiling calculated on the basis of actual costs. Public sector bodies need to calculate charges per re-user in a way so that the total income from charging does not exceed the costs incurred to produce and disseminate the information, together with a reasonable return on investment.
– Public sector bodies are encouraged to apply lower charges or to apply no charges at all. On request, public sector bodies must indicate the method used to calculate charges.
– Conditions for re-use shall be non-discriminatory for comparable categories of re-use.
– Licences should not unnecessarily restrict possibilities for re-use or be used to restrict competition.
NODA:
Agenda for publishing PSI. NODA is an initiative from the Ministry of Interior Affairs. The ministry also works, in cooperation with different government bodies, on an open data infrastructure.
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The open geodata breakthrough project started out as one of the breakthrough projects of the Rutte II Cabinet. Open geographical data is considered an important element for growth and innovation.
Its goal is to stimulate the uptake of open data. It does so by organising several (so called) 'open data estafettes' in close cooperation with public and private sector organisations.
The project also addresses several obstacles that influence the availability of data, f.e. Issues on privac and the continious availabilityof high-quality open data.
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Example of reuse of satellite data.
Groenmonitor.nl shows information on vegetation. De data is derived from satellite images. The information can be used to monitor crop growth and nature development.
Recently information on crop data and parcels has been added, based on open data (BRP).
The Dutch SuikerUnie for example, is planning to use data on crop growth and location of the parcels to accurately estimate the produce and to optimize the harvesting process and transportion.
Example of reuse of AAN and BRP
(Dutch parcel information, shapefiles and crops).
Crop-R uses AAN (Dutch parcel registration of arable land) to let farmers register the location of the crops. BRP is used to give information on former use of crops and parcel boundaries)
They use BAG (address registration) to plot addresses on a map (location).
Example of reuse of AHN data (open data height measurements).
By Geodan, NEO (Netherlands Geomatics & Earth Observation) and Wageningen UR.
The register contains information on trees in 2D and 3D, based on open data on height measurements (AHN2).
In dutch:
De gegevens over de bomen – de locatie van de boom, de boomhoogte, kroonprojectie, stamhoogte en boomkroonvolume - die uit het AHN2 zijn geëxtraheerd zijn verder bewerkt zodat alle onjuist geïdentificeerde objecten eruit konden worden gehaald. Naast het ‘maken’ van de bomen ontwikkelden Geodan, NEO en WUR ook een Informatiemodel Bomen dat aansluit op het Informatiemodel Geografie (IMGEO). Op de website Boomregister.nl zijn al deze boomgegevens bij elkaar gebracht zodat iedereen gratis informatie over alle bomen in een gebied kan vinden.
The information from boomregister.nl, and other open geodata is used again by Cobra to plot all physical objects on a map. On this map users can easily add or change information.
One application for example is a reporting tool for diseases and plagues.
The Netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of agricultural products. Well-known products are flowers and plants, vegetables and fruit, dairy, fish, meat and cattle feed. (Pigs in a barn.)
Yet the Netherlands is also leading the way on the high-tech side of agro products, like in the seed and seed processing sectors
Importing countries are allowed to set requirements, so they can safeguard the health of their own citizens, animals and plants.
Electronic certification provides a reduction in the corporate burden and at the same time optimises the quality of the inspection process. It also shortens the time from order to export.
The requirments are available as open data and used by seed processing companies to improve logistics.
In Dutch: http://www.clientexport.nl/open-data.html
The difficulty with opening data is that it's about data that wasn't open...
Hence, this raises a lot of discussion on costs, privacy issues, licensing and so on.
We should take (open) data governance to the next level: We should work together with the (agri) sector(s) to improve the flow of data by sharing more data and increasing interoperability (using the same int. standards).