The workshop is organized at the European Commission’s Borschette conference center in Brussels. Individual talks will be 7 minutes, leaving ample room for discussion toward the end of each session.

Hashtag: #daa11psi

Collaborative note-taking: Etherpad

All submitted position papers are available online.

The conference may be filmed and the images of part or of the whole event may be web cast and/or recorded. Full speeches or parts of them may be reused for internal documentation or in any public communication activity or pedagogical project. Participation to this public conference/meeting involves the acceptance of being filmed and no restriction fee will be asked for any use or reuse of the recorded images.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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• 12:30 Set-up and sandwiches

• 13:00 Opening Remarks by Richard Swetenham (Head of Unit Access to Information, EC DG INFSO & Media) (slides)

• 13:15 Setting the scene – the Potential of Open Data

  Moderator: Jose Manuel Alonso

  • Open Government Data: approaches, concerns and barriers, lessons learned by José Manuel Alonso (CTIC) (slides)
  • Organisational and Societal Obstacles to Implementations of Technical Systems Supporting PSI Re-Use by Nils Barnickel, Edzard Höfig, Jens Klessmann, Juan Soto (Fraunhofer FOKUS) (slides)
  • A true single market requires open access to public company information by Chris Taggart (OpenCorporates.com) (slides)
  • Open Data: an international comparison of strategies by Tijs van den Broek, Bas Kotterink, Noor Huijboom, Wout Hofman and Stef van Grieken (TNO, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) (slides)

• 15:15 coffee break

• 15:45 Use cases I

  Moderator: Margot Dor (ETSI)

  • Euroalert.net: Building a pan-European platform to aggregate public procurement data and deliver commercial services for SMEs powered by open data by José Luis Marín, Ángel Marín, Mai Rodríguez (Gateway Strategic Consultancy Services); Ramon Calmeau (EXIS-TI); Jose Maria Alvarez, Jose Emilio Labra (Universidad de Oviedo) (slides)
  • FearSquare.com – Combining public crime data with social media services by Andrew Garbett, Shaun Lawson, Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Jamie Wardman and Derek Foster (University of Lincoln, UK) (slides)
  • Role of telecommunication operators for open data by Marc Ribes (Orange Business Services) (slides)
  • Use Case: Geo Product Finder removing the roadblock from finding, licensing and acquiring INSPIRE data by Martijn van Exel (Geodan, the Netherlands) and Laila Aslesen (Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway)
  • Open Data need a vision of Smart Government by Tijs van den Broek, Bas Kotterink, Noor Huijboom, Wout Hofman and Stef van Grieken (TNO, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) (slides)
  • Pricing of PSI in the Meteorological Sector
    blocks market development by Richard Pettifer
    (PRIMET) (slides)

• 18:00 end of workshop discussions

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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• 08:30 Set-up and coffee

• 09:00 Use cases II

  Moderator: Jose Luis Marin (euroalert.net)

  • Re-Use of Public Sector Information and the Spanish eGovernment Strategy 2011-2012 by Emilio García García (Ministry of Territorial Policy, Spain) (slides)
  • ROSATTE – Road Safety Attributes exchange infrastructure in Europe by Maxime Flament (ERTICO – ITS Europe)
  • Problems and solutions in a concrete case of Open Data by Hervé Rannou (ITEMS International) (slides)
  • Position paper for the workshop: Removing the roadblocks to a pan European market for Public Sector Information re-use by Liv Vaisberg (Federation of European Publishers)
  • New Zealand Open Government Data by Laurence Millar (Independent Advisor) (slides)

• 10:15 coffee break

• 10:45 Standards and technical interoperability

  Moderator: Thomas Roessler (W3C)

  • Creating an open ecosystem for fostering innovation with Public Sector Information (PSI): Open standards and open acces sto data driven innovation, by Roslyn Docktor, Jochen Friedrich, Peter Haggar, Diane Jordan, Arnaud Le Hors (IBM) (slides)
  • Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe (SEMIC.EU) – Bringing semantic interoperability to life, João Rodrigues Frade (PwC Belgium, on Behalf of the European Commission, DG for Informatics, Unit B2) (slides)
  • Towards a Federation of Government Metadata Repositories by Gofran Shukair (DERI), Nikos Loutas (DERI), Vassilios Peristeras (European Commission, DG DIGIT), Klaus Reichling (]init[ AG), Fadi Maali (DERI), Konstantinos tarabanis (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki) (slides)
  • Recommendations for formats for PSI re-use by Francois Bancilhon (ISM and Data Publica) (slides)
  • ArcticWeb and PSI Data by Erin Lynch (KADME) (slides)
  • Facilitation the publication of Open Governmental Data with the LOD2 Stack by Sören Auer, Michael Martin, Phillip Frischmuth (Universität Leipzig); Bastiaan Deblieck (Tenforce) (slides)

• 12:45 lunch

• 13:45 Roundtable: Towards license interoperability

  Moderator: Federico Morando (NEXA Center)

  • Legal interoperability – barriers to the harmonization of licences by Katleen Janssen (ICRI – K.U.Leuven – IBBT) (slides)
  • Patterns of Sustainable Sharing Policy by Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons) (slides)
  • Open Database Licensing by Jordan S. Hatcher, Open Knowledge Foundation (slides)
  • The UK Approach to Simple and Streamlined Licensing by Jim Wretham (The [UK] National Archives) (slides)

• 15:15 break

• 15:30 Frameworks for a data infrastructure facilitating the reuse of PSI

  • Proposal for a government resolution on improving the availability and promoting the reuse of public sector information resources in digital format submitted by Taru Rastas (Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland) (slides)
  • Pioneering Scalable Innovation Clusters based on European PSI Directives by Tim McCarthy and Ronan Farrell (National University of Ireland, Moaynooth) (slides)
  • The European Location Framework enabling the interoperability of geo-spatial PSI by Antti Jakobsson, David Overton (EuroGeographics)

• 16:30-17:00 Wrap-up discussion