A comparative census of EU data initiatives, Martin Kaltenböck, 26.1.2011, Brussels, Belgium

Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

A comparative census of EU data initiatives Brussels, 26. January 2011

Martin Kaltenböck Semantic Web Company

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Overview: data initiatives http://bit.ly/open-data-map

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Open Data initiatives Worldwide

• 10+ nation-wide governmental data initiatives • 31+ local / regional governmental data initiatives • 06 private nation-wide initiatives • 03 private local / regional governmental data initiatives • Lot of competitions on open governmental data

Summary data initiatives* worldwide and EU 27

Open Data initiatives EU 27

• 06 nation-wide governmental data initiatives (+1 Norway) • 14+ local / regional governmental data initiatives • 05 private nation-wide initiatives • 02 private local / regional governmental data initiatives • Several competitions on open governmental data

• 12 nation-wide governmental data initiatives in progress (!!!)

* ….. public and private initiatives that provide Open Government Data and/or running challenges/competitions.

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Additional notes: global data initiatives

There are lots of databases, websites and more & more open data systems worldwide by international organisations, NGOs and NPOs available! • United Nations – http://data.un.org

• World Bank - http://data.worldbank.org/

• Eurostat – http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

• Also NPOs & NGOs already started ‚open data activities‘:

reegle clean energy data portal: http://data.reegle.info Open Energy Info (CLEAN network) – http://en.openei.org/wiki/Main_Page

• Media & Publishers: The Guardian World Gov Data - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data NYTimes data portal - http://data.nytimes.com/

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Governmental nation-wide data initiatives in EU 27

Country URL Nr data sets

API available Apps available

Formats available

CKAN

Denmark http://digitaliser.dk 17.086

unlocated NO XML, HTML NO

Finland http://suomi.fi/datakatalogi unloc. YES (XML, JSON) NO XML, CSV, HTML, PDF, XLS …

pending

Greece http://www.geodata.gov.gr unloc. YES (WMS, WFS) NO WMS, WFS In progress

Netherlands http://www.overheid.nl/opendata unloc. unlocated

NO YES

Spain http://www.proyectoaporta.es 720 unlocated NO Mainly text pending

United Kingdom

http://data.gov.uk 4.511 YES (XML, JSON)

YES - 72 RDF, CSV, PDF, XLS…

YES

Sweden (not official)

http://www.opengov.se/ http://en.edelegationen.se/

unloc. Partly (RDF, XML, JSON)

YES – 9 (in galery)

XML, CSV, HTML, PDF, XLS …

NO

Norway (not EU27)

http://data.norge.no

unloc. YES (XML, JSON)

NO CSV YES

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EU 27 governmental data initiatives outreach

Country Outreach

Austria The topic is discussed in the Austrian government at the moment (official aim to set 1st steps into the direction of a data.gv.at in early 2011). Also the cities of Vienna, Linz and Salzburg are discussing 1st steps of an OGD strategy. Catalogue available: http://datenkatalog.at

Slovakia Project Transpararency International Slovakia in progress (aggregate data, search data, raw data etc) – see: http://www.transparency.sk - data portal: http://vestnik.transparency.sk

France The upcoming period is promising for France with a PSI data.gov style single access point portal planned to come on stream by the end of 2010. See: http://bit.ly/bV61hv ; Several data platforms are available: http://www.pollutionsindustrielles.ecologie.gouv.fr and http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr - AND: http://bit.ly/e6K0L3 list of local data portals.

Ireland DERI's Linked Data Research Centre currently prepares the launch of Linked Government Data in Ireland. There will soon be statistical data (CSO) as well as URIs defined for major entities in Ireland. Regional official data portal available since Dec 2010: http://data.fingal.ie

Slovenia There are possibilities for re-use of governmental data – see: http://www.ip-rs.si/?id=195 – but no open data strategy could be located. Statistic Office: http://www.stat.si/pxweb/Dialog/statfile1.asp

Italy 25.10. 2010: 1st version of open data license published and MiaPa (my government) portal announced. See: http://www.epsiplus.net/news/news/italian_open_data_license Presentation MiaPa (Italian): http://www.innovazionepa.gov.it/media/596293/presentazione_miapa.pdf

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Country Outreach

Czech Republic EPSI Directive (2006): Among other things, this amendment sets out the obligation for Public Administrations to provide online access to information in open data formats (e.g. XML). See: http://www.epractice.eu/en/document/288198

Estonia Estonia: Government document repository entirely open to public See: http://www.slideshare.net/jenniferbell/benefits-of-open-government-data ; Open Estonia Foundation: http://www.oef.org.ee and http://www.riso.ee/en/

Poland ‘Poland is Open’ Conference Discusses PSI Re-use 2010 - See: http://www.ebib.info/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=197&Itemid=1 ; See also Poland Transparency Camp2010: http://transparencycamp.pl/o-transparencycamp-polska

Lithuania First geo data initiative in progress; see: http://www.esri.com/library/casestudies/lithuania.pdf

Germany Ongoing administrativ reform including an open data strategy – data portal planned for 2013 – see: http://www.verwaltung-innovativ.de/cln_117/DE/Home/homepage__node.html?__nnn=true Also intensive open data activities in the cities of Berlin, Munich , Breme n et al.

Countries where no information about a concrete governmental open data strategy / activity could be found:

Romania; Portugal; Malta; Luxembourg; Hungary; Cyprus; Belgium, Bulgaria, Latvia (http://www.lv – to evaluate).

EU 27 governmental data initiatives outreach

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Country Location Initiative Operator

Finland Helsinki Infoshare City of Helsinki

France Paris Paris: un pas vers l’opendata City of Paris

France Rennes Data Renne Metropole City of Rennes

France Brest, Montpellier Open Geo Data City of Brest

Italy Piemont Dati Piemonti Unlocated

Spain Zaragoza Conjunto de Datos City of Zaragoza

Spain Basque region Eusko Jaurlaritz Euskadi Government

Spain Asturia Asturian Public Data Asturian local government

United Kingdom Warwickshire Warwickshire Open Data unlocated

United Kingdom Lichfield Lichfield Open Data Lichfield District Council

United Kingdom Kent Pic and Mix Kent Government

United Kingdom London London Data Store Greater London Authority

United Kingdom Northern Ireland Open Data NI UK Department of Finance & Personnel

Local governmental data initiatives in EU 27 (excerpt)

Remark: for details & URLs to initiatives see: http://bit.ly/ogd-worldwide

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Country Location Initiative URL Operator

Austria Nation-wide OGD austria http://gov.opendata.at http://datenkatalog.at

OGD Austria: private initiative universities & companies

Belgium Nation-wide Open Belgium http://openbelgium.be Krimson - Drupal architects & Belgian Open Data Community

Germany Berlin Apps 4 Democracy Deutschland

http://apps4democracy.de Open Data Network

Netherlands nation-wide Open Data Overheid

http://opendataoverheid.nl Individuals

Germany Berlin Open Berlin http://opendata-network.org/2010/08/openberlin-werde-ein-datenpate

Open Data Network

Sweden nation-wide OpenGov Sweden http://www.opengov.se Open Gov Initiative Sweden

France nation-wide Data Publica http://www.data-publica.com 3 SMEs – Araok, Nexedi, Talend – but funded by French Gov

UK Nation-wide Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)

http://www.okfn.org OKFN

Private nation-wide & local data initiatives in EU 27 (excerpt)

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Conclusion important to mention!

• Some EU 27 countries have already started a focused open data strategy

• Lots of others EU27 countries are discussing this and/or start activities!

• Nearly any EU 27 country does have statistical data, geodata, environmental

data etc public available as ‚open data‘ in HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, XML formats

already available (but often difficult to find)!

• There are lots of governmental regional data initiatives (as well as private

initiatives) going on in EU 27 countries!

• Initiatives are rarely co-ordinated nation-wide & the idea of national

OGD/LOGD infrastructures is not harmonised: nation-wide single points of

access of governmental data for searching, browsing, comparing, analysing

and re-using etc of data.

• Furthermore an EC OGD/LOGD infrastructure is in discussion at the moment

– a EC data portal has already been announced!

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Neelie Kroes (Vice-President of the European Commission ), December 2010:

I have said it before, and I say it again: yes to open data!: http://bit.ly/f6R8Sd

Open Government Data resources for Europe & Worldwide

Some upcoming events in Europe

• ePSI-Conference: Open Data - Apps for everyone? 18.2.2011, Berlin, Germany - http://bit.ly/fLTjHG

• CeDEM, 5. - 6. May 2011, Krems, Austria - http://bit.ly/cedem2011

• OGD2011 Conference Austria, 16 June 2011 , Vienna, Austria – http://www.ogd2011.at

• ISESS 2011, 27. – 29. June 2011, Brno, Czech Republic - http://www.isess2011.org

World Map of Open Government Data Initiatives: An open map of those public and private

initiatives that provide Open Government Data or running Challenges. http://bit.ly/open-data-map

Overview & collection of governmental data initiatives in EU 27 (in progress)

http://bit.ly/ogd-eu27

20.01.2011: PSI Directive Consultation: Responses published by EC

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm

LOD2 list of EU 27 data catalogues (mainly based on CKAN)

http://lod2.okfn.org/eu-data-catalogues/

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LOD2 OGD Stakeholder Survey • 25 questions in 10-15 minutes time

• Open: November & December 2010

• ~ 400 participants – Europe- & Worldwide - analysis is in progress

• Results will be published in February 2011 (http://survey.lod.eu)

LOD2: OGD Stakeholder Survey & PUBLINK Consultancy

LOD2 PUBLINK Consultancy Service • Information: http://lod2.eu/Article/Publink.html

• Lower the entrance barrier for potential data publishers

• Free consultancy for publishing (linked open) data

• Up to 5 selected organizations - Overall effort of 10-20 days of support

• From highly skilled Linked Data professionals

• Decision: end of January / beginning of February 2011

• Applicants e.g. City of London, City of Vienna, Parliament of Finland et al.

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Thank you for your attention!

Martin Kaltenböck, CMC

LOD2 Project: http://lod2.eu

LOD2 OGD StakeholderSurvey: http://survey.lod2.eu

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