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Opening up public data resources
- PSI re-use within the open data strategy
Luis Ferrão
European Commission
EVPSI and LAPSI Final Meeting
Torino, 9 and 10 July 2012
Re-use of PSI – the wider picture
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A strategy for smart, Action 3: Open up public
sustainable and inclusive data resources for regrowth
use
The challenge
• PSI: a raw material of major importance for new
value-added information services
• Market gap with major partners
• Barriers remain at European level (formats,
cross-border availability, diverging re-use
conditions…)
Market gap
• Economic value of PSI:
• < 1% EU GDP (G. Vickery 2011)
• > 7% of US GDP (M. Ricolfi 2012, Pira 2000)
Towards an open data landscape
Minimum legal framework has been put in place for
opening up public data
ICT developments spurred advances in data
production, analysis, processing and exploitation
Open government policies adopted in several Member
States for transparency, administrative efficiency and
re-use potential reasons
Open data – national level
Open data – local level
The Commission open data strategy
- adopted 12.12.2011
• Open data Communication (COM(2011) 882 final)
Enhanced re-use policy
• Amendements to PSI Directive (proposal)
• New Commission re-use Decision (2011/833/EU)
Open "data.eu" portal
2003 Directive v. 2011 proposal
• More openess
• open government licences
• More transparency
• Open data portals
• More reusability
• Open, machine-readable formats
• Downwards trend on charging
Wider scope
• cultural institutions (libraries, archives…)
Additional features (2011 proposal)
• Guidance
• Cost calculation
• Licensing
• Machine-readable formats
• Coordination
• independent regulators
Monitoring
• Yearly reporting on extent and conditions of PSI reuse
What lies ahead?
• 2012
• open portal of the Commission
• Amended PSI Directive*
• 2013
• Pan-European open data portal
• amended PSI Directive*
• 2014-2020: European digital services infrastructure
(under the 'Connecting Europe Facility' programme*)
• * Subject to adoption of the required legal instruments
To know more
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/index_en.htm
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