1. EU Harmonisation and the Data
Value Chain :
Challenges & Opportunities
Gérald Santucci
Head of Unit, European Commission,
DG CONNECT, Unit 02 – Knowledge Sharing

2. Why does the EU support Open Data?
1. Untapped business opportunities:
• the information held by governments could be used to
generate from €40 to €140 billion a year (source: EC)
1. Addressing societal challenges
2. Achieving efficiency gains through sharing data
inside and between public administrations
3. Fostering involvement/engagement of
citizens in political and social life (empowerment)
and increasing transparency of government
(governance)
Read more: Commission policy paper: COM(2011) 882
"Open data, An engine for innovation, growth and transparent governance"

3. G8 leaders signed the Open Data Charter
on 18 June 2013
The Open Data Charter:
sets out 5 strategic principles that
all G8 members will act on. These
include an expectation that all
government data will be published
openly by default, alongside
principles to increase the quality,
quantity and re-use of the data
that is released.
G8 members have also identified 14 high-value areas – from education to
transport, and from health to crime and justice – from which they will
release data. These will help unlock the economic potential of open data,
support innovation and provide greater accountability.

4. EP adopts new EU Open Data rules
on 13 June 2013
Only 16 months to reach agreement:
all EU institutions are committed to unlock the full potential of the
open data goldmine.
Developers, programmers, creative citizens and
businesses:
• are now able to get and re-use public sector data at zero
or very low cost in most cases
• have access to more exciting and inspirational content
since materials in libraries, museums and archives fall
under the umbrella of the Directive

5. G8 and EU OGD principles: how much
compatible?
• G8
- Open data by default
- Quality & quantity
- Useable by all
- Releasing data for improved
governance
- Releasing data for innovation
• EU
 - Completeness
 - Primary
 - Timeliness
 - Accessible
 - Machine-readable
 - Non-discriminatory
 - Non-proprietary
 - License-free

6. Thematic
networks &
stakeholder
outreach
activities Member
States’ expert
group
Open data
portals
Studies on the
economic
potential of
PSI re-use
Non-
legislative
measures to
facilitate PSI
re-use
A common
legislative
framework
(Directive
2003/98/EC,
revised in
2013)
PSI

7. Open Data Portals

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Zy8EsLl7gYQ&feature=player_embedded#at=54

9. EU Open Data Portals & Infrastructures
• December 2012: Commission Open Data portal
• A portal site for Commission-held information
• Work with Member States on data formats and
interoperability between existing Open Data portal sites
• A pan-European umbrella site a a single access point to
make data from all government levels more easily available
and re-sable
• 2013 and after: Pan-European Open Data Portal
(prototype)
• Work towards an infrastructure for multilingual services
• A European Digital Service infrastructure for Open Data?

10. The EU Open Data Portal
• Site launched in beta version in December 2012
http://open-data.europa.eu
• Almost 6,000 datasets can be browsed, learnt
about and downloaded
• Based on open source solutions (LAMP
software bundle, OKF’s CKAN data catalogue
software, Drupal content management system)
• Metadata catalogue: Dublin Core + DCAT +
ADMS
• License conditions: Open license as default
(equivalent to CC BY), but exceptions allowed
More info: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-data-
portals

11. Towards a pan-European
infrastructure for (Open) Data
• One single gateway to
reusable information with the
aim of enabling combination
of information held by various
open data portals at various
levels throughout the EU
• Services around open data
• Dedicated service
infrastructure for language
resources in order facilitate
multi-lingual access to online
services

12. Beyond PSI, what is at stake?

13. Merci de votre attention !
Contact:
Gérald Santucci
gerald.santucci@ec.europa.eu,
Twitter: @GeraldSantucci
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