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Building a pan-European platform to aggregate public procurement data and deliver commercial services for SMEs
powered by open data
Jose L. Marín de la Iglesiahttp://twitter.com/jluismarin
Share-PSI.eu WorkshopBrussels, 10 May 2011
Powered by opendata
How are we going to spend the next 7 m?
Talking Open Data
panEU approach to deliver information services based on government contracts data
Hashtags: #daa11psi #opendata
What is open data for?
Transparency
Helps citizens to make better decisions
Create added-value information products and
services
Companies powered by open data
What is Euroalert.net? is a private held company who provides
value added information services related to pan-EU matters:
EU News
EU Funding
EU Law
Public procurement data
10ders: Aggregating public contractsPanEuropean platform aggregating
public contracts in the EU
UsersAssociationsAuthoritiesSMEsAgencies
Deliver innovative and costeffective products & services for SMEs, to help them to increase
competitiveness in EU public markets
Journals and Official GazettesProcurement PlatformsBuyer profiles
2155 B Euros (17% EU GDP)
10ders: Aggregating public contracts
The idea is simple...
The challenge is huge!
Technical
Legal
Cultural
Adding value to public procurement data
UsersAssociationsPubic AuthoritiesSMEsAgencies
gathers, understands, indexes, enriches
searches, filters, mashes-up
ADDS VALUERe-packages, Distributes, Publishes
GTWCLOUD
OfficialSources
WEBSERVICES
API: opXML
WIDGETS PRODUCTREPORTS
WINNERLISTS ALERTSSPARQL
ENDPOINT
DeterministicMachine-readablePeriodic
Automatic Publication: Widgets y WS
Bringing information from official sources closer to users, so they can reach the relevant contents with less number of clicks
Releasing resources from tracking official references, so they can be allocated to other tasks which involve higher value for their public
Creating more useful websites to attract new users with customized contents which are updated automatically in a very cost-effective way
Alerts with contract opportunities and awards
Wide range of criteria: different countries, more than 9000 different CPV product codes, keywords, types of announcement, etc.
The best available tender search technology, combined with our expert advice
Data mining for Market intelligence
Product ReportsIs your distributor in France, Germany or the UK
taking advantage of procurement opportunities in those countries and bidding with your products or services?
Which are the companies that win more contracts selling similar or complementary products in their local markets or in other countries?
Which are the characteristics of the products and services your competitors are offering in other countries?
Which one would be your best business partner to distribute your products abroad?
Lists of contract winners
Some Clients working with Euroalert
Some 2010 figures: data managed
Over 425.000 documents
Over 400.000 M€ in public contracts
Nearly 500.000 contract awards
Over 9.000 legal pieces
Over 40.000 contracting authorities
Over 100.000 new awarded companies
Operating database of 160 GB + 10 GB metadata
Clients in 15 countries
Main challenges
Not unified data structures Storing big data Multiple languages Fragmentation in thousands of sources
Technical
Legal
Cultural
Licensing Business model(s) Inexpensive Conflict Resolution
Open data awareness among Authorities
Business model(s)
Subsidized
Subscription
Advertising
Transformation
Certification
Traffic generation
Differentiation
Apps Sale
Our real challenge
Unlocking the data
NOT the right approach
Euroalert approach to unlocking data Formal request addressed to data holder
Sometimes presentation of the objectives
License agreement signature (or complaint
placement)
Data re-use of new source within 10ders IS
Upgrade and integration in all current
services
““But...,But..., data are data are alreadyalready in in ourour websitewebsite””
What do we need to re-use data for commercial purpose?
Automatic processing (URIs, API, WS, even email attach) Structured and documented data Updated according to reliable criteria Licensing for commercial exploitation
Technical Requirements Machine readable – RAW DATA – Any format is OK
“Throwing them over the wall” in PDF or HTML is not enough
Sir Tim's 5-star rankingSir Tim's 5-star ranking
Available on the web (open licence)
Machine-readable data
Non-proprietary format
Use open standards from W3C
Linked to other people's data
Linked Open Data ... the red pill?Linked Open Data ... the red pill?
TheThe take-take-awayaway
RAW Data is enough
Not enough useful open data released
Conflict resolution - ShowMeTheTenders.net
Still experimenting with business model(s)
Standardization should to play a role
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May 2011
Jose L. Marín de la Iglesia
http://twitter.com/jluismarin
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