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Working Group on EU Open Data

The Working Group used to have regular monthly conference call via Skype. The regular calls is not taking place at this time anymore. We will announce publicly as soon as we re-initiate the calls.

Purpose

1. Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open (government) data in Europe
2. Identify relevant projects and practices. Promote best practices as well as legal and technical standards for making data open (such as the Open Knowledge Definition).
3. Collaborate on the specification of a shared, interoperable platform (CKAN, ...) for finding and distributing open data in different European countries
4. Coordinate policy work and related initiatives related to open government data

People

If you'd like to join the calls, please send us an email: info at okfn dot org.

• Working Group Coordinator: Daniel Dietrich, Open Knowledge Foundation and Open Data Network (Germany)
• Jose M. Alonso, eGovernment and Open Data, CTIC and eGovernment Interest Group, W3C (Spain)
• Sören Auer, AKSW (Germany)
• Lorenzo Benussi, TOP-IX Consortium (Italy)
• Stefano Bertolo, European Commission (Luxembourg)
• Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento (Italy)
• Tobias Bürger, Austrian open government data initiative (Austria)
• James Burke (Netherlands)
• Nadia Campaniello, Univeristy of Torino (Italy)
• Titti Cimmino, The Rome Semantic Web Meetup (Rome, Italy)
• Peter Dolog, Aalborg University (Denmark)
• Jens Finnäs, Journalist (Finland)
• Michael Friis, Folket Sting (Denmark)
• Aldo Gangemi, CNR (Italy)
• Hjalmar Gislason, Opin gögn (Iceland)
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento (Italy)
• Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Technical University of Madrid (Spain)
• Christophe Guéret, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Andreas Harth, Institute AIFB at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
• Michael Hausenblas, Linked Data Research Centre, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)
• Paul Hermans, proXML Company (Belgium)
• Ivan Herman, W3C + CWI (Netherlands)
• Rinke Hoekstra, VU University Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
• Katleen Janssen, Department of Law, Catholic University Leuven, (Belgium)
• Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company (Austria)
• Peter Krantz (Sweden)
• Andreas Langegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)
• Yuwei Lin, Lecturer in Future Media School of Media, Music and Performance University of Salford (UK)
• Esa Mäkinen, Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
• Arthur van der Molen, Hogschool Rotterdam (Netherlands)
• Jose Luis Marin, Euroalert.net (Valladolid, Spain)
• Pol Mac Aonghusa, Smarter Cities Technology Centre - IBM Research (Ireland)
• Phoebe Moore, University of Salford (UK)
• Federico Morando, NEXA Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
• Tangui Morlier Regards Citoyens (France)
• Benjamin Ooghe, Regards Citoyens (France)
• Olav Anders Øvrebø, University of Bergen (Norway)
• David Osimo, Tech4i2 (Belgium)
• Vassilios Peristeras, European Commission - ISA Unit (Belgium)
• Martijn van der Plaat, Student Information Sciences at the VU Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Antti Poikola, HILA Open Ltd. (Finland)
• Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen, ItsYourParliament.eu (Denmark)
• Thomas Roessler, W3C (Luxembourg)
• Cristiana Sappa, University of Torino (Italy)
• Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti, Koop Tech (Germany)
• Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab - Informatica Trentina (Italy)
• Svein-Magnus Sørensen, Oslo Open Data Meetup (Oslo, Norway)
• Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento (Italy)
• York Sure, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Germany)
• Julian Tait, Open Data Cities - FutureEverything (UK)
• Jack Thurston, Farm Subsidyhilarious quotes (UK)
• Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM (Sophia Antipolis, France) and DataLift project
• Giovanni Tummarello, National University of Ireland (Ireland)
• Marc de Vries, Caselex (Luxemburg)
• Zuzana Wienk, Fair-Play Alliance (Slovakia)
• Hugh Williams, OpenLink Software (UK)
• Benjamin Zapilko, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Germany)
• Ton Zijlstra, OurData (Netherlands)|
• Paola Di Maio

Projects

Open Government Data Catalogues

We would like to support the development of catalogues for open government data in countries across Europe. This includes:

• Ensuring data catalogues are interoperable
• Ensuring data catalogues support semantic web technologies
• Continue to develop requirements for data catalogues
• Improving user experience of data catalogues

European Apps for Democracy Contests

Work in this area includes:

• Promoting the use of open data in various European countries though competitions encouraging developers to create new applications and services.
• Highlighting the value and benefits of open data to society.
• Supporting the reuse of existing open source applications and services in other countries.
• Supporting national competitions as well as (eventually) an European wide competition.

EU Open Data Manual

Develope a live (regularly updated) "Open Data Manual" for Governments, especially in Europe in order to boost the Digital agenda and revitalize the democracy in the member states.

The manual would be openly and collaboratively developed by the network of experts around Europe (EU Open Data Working Group). The manual would be build on existing work, in particular - Unlocking the Potential of Aid Information (December 2009), Finnish Open Data Guidebook (March 2010) and a discussion paper produced by the Technical Advisory Group for the International Aid Transparency Initiative (March 2010).

Events

• See the EU Open-Data Workgroup Calendar for details on events for the Work Group.
• See the European PSI / Open Data Events Calendar for details of events on open data or PSI re-use in Europe. (Send event invitations to 8ctpd90brkif2u7emhrv03kqc [you know what goes here] group.calendar.google.com to add events to calendar.)

Mailing List

A mailing list for discussions and coordination of the group is available at:

• http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/euopendata

Call Notes

• Thirteenth Call, 2010-12-14
• Twelfth Call, 2010-11-09
• Eleventh Call, 2010-10-12
• Tenth Call, 2010-09-10
• Ninth Call, 2010-08-10
• Eigth Call, 2010-07-13
• Seventh Call, 2010-06-08
• Sixth Call, 2010-05-11
• Fifth Call, 2010-04-13
• Fourth Call, 2010-03-09
• Third Call, 2010-02-09
• Second Call, 2010-01-12
• First Call, 2009-12-15