Euroalert

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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