Working Groups/euopendata/Introductions

Introduction of the EU Open Data regular Skype Call participants and their ongoing open data actvities.

Antti Poikola (Jyväskylä, Finland Skype: antti.poikola)
Skype: antti.poikola Twitter: http://twitter.com/apoikola Blog: http://apoikola.wordpress.com/
 * Free consultant (HILA Open Oy -> http://www.fillarikanava.fi/)
 * Currently writing a guidebook (in Finnish) of open data to the Ministry of transport and communications in Finland -> published for all public sector organizations
 * Taking Swedish datacatalog project to Finland http://www.opengov.se/ -> http://test.opengov.fi/
 * Trying to help also with the official national data catalog http://www.suomi.fi/datakatalogi
 * Draft translation the Open knowledge definition into Finnish (http://opendefinition.org/)
 * I was running the Apps for Democracy Finland (http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/democracy_finland) and will be involved 2010 as well
 * Helping to organize the Open government data catalog virtual workshop 11.2.2010: http://apoikola.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/open-government-data-catalogs
 * Helping to put forward idea called TaxTree (budget visualization)

Sören Auer (Germany)

 * Semantic Data Web researcher from Leipzig, Germany - http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer
 * Ontowiki semantic wiki platform
 * http://publicdata.eu/

Peter Krantz (Sweden)

 * http://www.opengov.se/
 * http://code.google.com/p/opengov-catalog/
 * Initiated the Swedish semantic web interest group
 * Blog: http://www.peterkrantz.com/
 * Twitter: @peterkz_swe

Ton (Netherlands)

 * initiator of http://ourdata.eu to collect pointers to initiatives, examples of re-use and datasets from across the EU
 * blog: http://zylstra.org/blog
 * active from both government, activist and commercial perspective
 * worked for Ministerium f.t. Interior, creating a 'manual' for open data, collecting examples and data sources, as well as build the network of change agents in Dutch government as well as coders and others.
 * hired by Danish gov to moderate conference on open data in Denmark next Feb.
 * my regular work is in knowledge/change management, communities of practice mainly. http://tonzijlstra.eu/
 * was at Ministerial eGov conference in Malmö, to help present the Open Declaration on eGov in the EU.

Jonathan Gray (UK)

 * Open Knowledge Foundation (okfn.org).
 * OKF is working on data.gov.uk and CKAN.
 * Working on German version of CKAN with Daniel.
 * Interested in making open government data registries interoperable. Making open (government) data easy to find and eary to reuse.
 * Commonalities in law and policy across Europe. E.g. EU PSI Directive. Helping to 'equip' open gov data initiatives with 'policy toolkits' they need. E.g. evidence for value of open gov data.
 * Also new project with Open Society Institute mapping open government data initiatives around the world. Will bring this up on list. Want to identify experts and initiatives in each jurisdiction.
 * Keen to start having regular (monthly?) calls on open (government) data across Europe.
 * Please hold 24th April date in diaries. We plan to have a big session at OKCon 2010 in London.
 * http://opendefinition.org/ - new guidance aimed at those publishing government data - on licensing/legal tools and
 * http://eups20.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/reusing-remixing-and-building-on-the-importance-of-making-data-legally-open/ - on the importance of legal openness
 * CKAN.net
 * http://test.ckan.net/package/list
 * http://test.ckan.net/package/2000-us-census-rdf
 * Open Government Data project: http://opengovernmentdata.org/
 * EU Open Data Inventory: http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/eutransparency/ and http://ckan.net/tag/read/eutransparency
 * Where does my money go -> compare to TaxTree

Daniel Dietrich (Berlin, Germany)

 * Chairman Opendata Network Germany http://opendata-network.org
 * Starting CKAN Germany as a cooperation OKFN and ODN http://de.ckan.net
 * Apps for Democracy Germany Summer 2010 http://apps4democracy.de
 * Opendata Hackday Berlin April 2010 http://opendata.hackday.net
 * Working Group on "Democracy-API" APIs for German public sector
 * http://opendata-network.org
 * On 6. Mai official start the German Chapter of the OKFN at the Leipziger Semantic Web Tag 2010

Michael Friis (Copenhagen, Denmark)

 * website Folkets Ting folketsting.dk (folketsting.dk)
 * http://tedbot.itu.dk/
 * screenscraped lot's of EU public procurement documents
 * http://ourdata.eu/
 * TEDBot ted.europa.eu

James Burke

 * poster and guidebook on how to open gov. data in the Netherlands
 * bring togeather hackers and government
 * world ICT forum (?)

Andreas Langegger (Austria)

 * Semantic Web Researcher @JKU Linz - http://www.langegger.at
 * Author of XLWrap (spreadsheet-to-RDF wrapper, seeking funding), SemWIQ, involved in D2R-Server, etc.
 * Representative of the Austrian Open Government Data Initiative (currently starting up) - http://gov.opendata.at
 * Preparing some use cases and demos for awareness building in Austria
 * Interested in cooperations

Hjalmar Gislason (Iceland)

 * Founder & CEO of DataMarket
 * Developing a data portal called DataMarket.com, currently in closed Alpha.
 * Also provide professional services in data aggregation, visualization and data software development.
 * Co-founder of Icelandic open data wiki site Opin gögn (opin = open, gögn = data)
 * Includes an Icleandic translation of the Open Definition
 * Holds mainly links to various data sets and government agencies with commentary on their data access policies, whom to contact, etc.
 * Vocal advocate for Open Data access in Iceland for more than two years, educating the media, government agencies and politicians about work such as OKFN, data.gov.uk and data.gov The Sunlight Foundation etc.
 * Some of my thoughts on Open Data can be found on the company's English language blog. Post on brutal transparency might be of of particular interest to the group.
 * Occasional English blog posts on my personal blog at: hjalli.com

Ivan Herman (The Netherlands)

 * Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium
 * Senior Researcher at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
 * For more details see my home page at W3C

Jens Klessmann (Germany)

 * Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/elan/index.html
 * PhD candidate at German University for Public Administration Speyer. Topic: Web 2.0 in the Public Sector
 * Active member of German NGO "Government 2.0 Network e.V."
 * Involved in organisation of first German Government 2.0 Barcamp in August 2009 in Berlin
 * More info at http://www.pisola.net/blg/about/

Federico Morando (Italy)

 * Managing Director & Research Fellow at the http://nexa.polito.it NEXA Center for Internet & Society]]: [[http://nexa.polito.it/staff#morando http://nexa.polito.it/staff#morando;
 * Adjunct professor of Advanced Intellectual Property Law at Bocconi University in Milan;
 * Associate Editor of the IJCLP.

Benjamin Zapilko (Germany)

 * Researcher and PhD Student at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; Department: Information Processes in the Social Sciences

Heiko Stoermer (Italy)

 * Research Scientist at University of Trento
 * Technical Director of EU IP OKKAM
 * 
 * Skype: heikostoermer

Andreas Harth (Germany)

 * Postdoc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
 * Interested in web data
 * Curator for the Billion Triple Challenge Datasets 2009 and 2010
 * SWSE/VisiNav
 * Skype: aharth

Bill Roberts (UK)

 * Founder of Swirrl
 * Working on a software platform for linked data publishing
 * Skype: billroberts1966
 * Twitter: @billroberts
 * Blog: http://www.webofdatablog.com

Raphael Troncy (France)

 * Assistant Professor at EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis, France
 * Co-investigator in the new DataLift - A catalyser for the Web of data project
 * For more details see my home page

Jose M. Alonso (Spain)

 * Head, eGovernment and Open Data, CTIC
 * Co-Chair, eGovernment Interest Group, W3C
 * Senior Advisor, W3C Spain
 * For more details see my old home page at W3C and my personal page

Elena Simperl (Germany)

 * Senior Researcher at KIT
 * Scientific coordinator of INSEMTIVES, PlanetData, and RENDER
 * More details are available here

Paola Di Maio (UK, Italy, EU)

 * Senior Systems Scientist and Advisor at ISTCS.org
 * Quality Engineer
 * Freelance Consultant and Project Coordination Advisor

Enrico Daga (Italy)

 * Technology Expert at CNR and member of STLab
 * Developer and maintainer of http://data.cnr.it
 * Interested in open data, semantic web