[European Union] Open Data Institute 03-Feb-2021 consultation on energy sector high-value datasets
Robbie Morrison
Hello all (cc: ODI)
The European Union recently introduced the concept of high‑value datasets (HVD) in the open data directive 2019/1024 and nominated, in legislation, some domain areas they considered useful — the energy sector was not on that list for some reason.
The United Kingdom‑based Open Data Institute (ODI) has been commissioned (prior to Brexit) to report on energy sector HVD. To that end, Josh D'Addario duly contacted me and would like to run an hour‑long online community consultation meeting as follows:
- Wed 03-Feb-2021 14:00 +0000 (GMT)
- Wed 03-Feb-2021 15:00 +0100 (CET)
Please reply to me if you would like to participate. This meeting presents an opportunity to, I imagine, variously:
- outline the current scope of data and particularly any gaps
- nominate some high‑value datasets
- push for CC‑BY‑4.0, CC0‑1.0, and other open licenses to enable reuse
- discuss technical issues, including collection protocols,
semantics, packaging, and metadata
- discuss pubic data provision infrastructure more generally
You need not be resident in the EU or a citizen of a member
state, but the discussion is necessarily limited to datasets
covering Europe.
Looking forward to your responses! Robbie
PS: engaging in these kind of processes is a good way to push for
progressive agendas!
Further background
The directive referred to is:
- European Commission (26 June 2019). "Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information — PE/28/2019/REV/1". Official Journal of the European Union. L 172: 56–83.
And it entered into force on 16 July 2019. It replaced the
previous public sector information (PSI) directive.
In addition, six from the openmod community formally commented to the Commission on this oversight in relation to energy sector HVD eight months ago (paragraphs 1, 79–84):
- Morrison, Robbie (30 May 2020). Submission on a European strategy for data with an emphasis on energy sector datasets — Release 08. Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
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