Public report on goals and requirements for a pan-European data portal
Irene Celino
vi segnalo che è stato pubblicato il report di un workshop della
commissione europea sulla creazione di un portale europeo di dati
pubblici.
lo trovate qui: http://bit.ly/ethXFa
vi riporto l'executive summary:
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On the 3rd of November 2010 the European Commission organised
in Luxembourg a technical
workshop on the goals and requirements for a possible
pan-European data portal. Experts with
practical experience in their respective countries were invited to
share their experiences and ideas.
The experts consider that such a portal would add value to existing
regional and national initiatives
by improving transparency on issues of EU-wide interest,
providing evidence for better policy
making, improving the efficiency of data-dependent
administrative and business processes and
stimulating economic development through EU-wide reuse of data.
Several issues of legal, technical and socio-political nature
must be addressed for such a portal to
function effectively, among them the need for high level political
support, the systematic adoption of
reuse-friendly data licences, the promotion of
established data standards for maximal
interoperability and the organic involvement of European
software developers and data-literate
citizens.
A pan-European portal should be able to expand rapidly in breadth
(thus fostering the interest of the
public with large numbers of relevant datasets) while at the
same time also showing the value of
deeper data integration, starting from a core set of
statistical, financial, geospatial data of high
quality. Agile prototyping and development models are recommended,
given the extremely fast pace
at which data initiatives are developing in Europe.
A small working group should be created to drive the issue
forward and meet regularly to identify
more precisely technical requirements. The group should connect with
other open data stakeholder
groups established at the national or European level and
contribute to the definition of European
datasets, government open data conferences and software
development competitions, with first
results visible and publicised by mid-2011.
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hth,
irene
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