General Presentation European Data Portal

European Data Portal
General Presentation

The European Commission aims at creating a "data value chain
friendly" policy environment
The objective is to put in place the "systemic" prerequisites for effective use & re-use of data through
legal and soft law measures
Communication on Open Data (COM(2011)882)
A revision of the Decision governing the re-use of Commission's own information (2011/833/EU)
Revision of the Directive on the re-use of public sector information (2013/37/EU)
Commission Notice: guidelines on PSI re-use (2014/C 240/01)
EU Open data-portals
The main changes made in the revision of the PSI directive are:
Creation of a genuine right to re-use public information: all generally accessible information will become re-
usable
New default charging rule based on the marginal cost for reproduction, provision and dissemination of the
information. (In exceptional cases, full cost recovery will remain possible)
Cultural institutions brought within the scope of the Directive
Increased transparency requirements with regard to charges and conditions applied by public sector bodies
New rules on digitisation agreements, which protect the cultural sector and the interests of the general public
The launching of the European Data Portal is one of the key steps the EC is taking in supporting the
access to public data

The benefits of Open Data are diverse and range from improved
performance of public administrations, econonic growth in the
private sector to wider social wellfare
The Benefits of Open Data
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Improving
Efficiency of
Public Services
Improving
Quality
Developing
Innovative
Services
Creating
New
Business
Models Improving
Transparency &
Accountability
Enhance
Participation
Performance
Economy
Social
The European Data Portal will be a central hub providing access to all the
information (metadata) about the data made accessible throughout Europe

There are numerous examples of the re-use of Open Data
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Accessing
information about
your neighbourhood
Finding a parking
spot in a big city
Accessing
information about
air pollution
Checking whether
your train or bus is
on time
Finding what to visit
in a certain part of
the city or region
Comparing schools
and universities
Locating the nearest
defibrilator in case of
an emergency
Viomedo is a German business that
connects patients with ongoing
clinical trials. It is an easily
searchable database of current
clinical trials, so patients and trial
volunteers can quickly find different
studies to participate in.
BlindSquare uses open data
from OpenStreetMap to help
visually impaired people
navigate to a given location
by alerting users to obstacles
in their environment.
Vamos à la playa is a French
application helping users to
locate beaches in the South of
France. It offers information
about water quality,
infrastructure and
accessibility.
Cross-cutting public
data with privately
owned data
There are numerous simples as well as complex ways to re-use Open Data

 A substantial part of the Open Data Value Chain is the
Portal
 The Portal alone is an empty house and requires metadata
to be supplied by the holders of public data resources
 A community needs to be engaged to make use of the
Portal and the data, as this will drive economic benefits
and innovation
The Deployment of an EU Open Data core platform:
implementation of the pan-European Open Data portal and
related services
The strategic objective of this project is to address Accessibility and Value of Open Data
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Accessibility. How to access this information about data ? Where to find it? How to make it available in
the first place? In domains, across domains, across countries? In what language?
Value. For what purpose and what economic gain? Societal gain? Democratic gain? What critical mass?
The Project is structured into three work streams:
 Service 1: Developing, launching, operating and maintaining
a pan-European web-based data portal infrastructure
 Service 2: Fostering uptake on data supply
 Service 3: Fostering uptake on reuse of public data resources
All three Services are related and very much dependent on one another to untap the value of open data

The European Data Portal project is structured to reap the
benefits of a fully functional Open Data Value Chain
Three complementary work streams are addressed within the European Data Portal
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Conducting and inception phase to address and streamline technical
assumptions
Working on the development and testing of the Portal
Delivering a Beta Version with high functional coverage
Preparing subsequent releases of fully productive versions
Service 1: Developing the
pan-European web-based
data portal infrastructure
Landscaping and peer Learning: assessing the level of maturity of the countries
Developing common support activities: providing the content and support that is
useful to everyone (guidelines, training, and online support)
Offering tailored support activities to enable countries to make rapid progress in
executing their open data policies
Service 2: Fostering uptake
on data supply
Leveraging community engagement to the make the most out of Open Data
Communicating and raising awareness about the Portal
Studying the economic impact of the reuse of public data resources
Preparing for the future and working on the sustainability
Service 3: Fostering uptake
on reuse of public data
resources

Metadata has been structured into 13 categories following
EUROVOC
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To overcome the language barriers, the EUROVOC
thesaurus has been used
Data Categories have been based on the DCAT-AP.
The DCAT Application profile for data portals in
Europe (DCAT-AP) is a specification based on
the Data Catalogue vocabulary for describing public
sector datasets in Europe.

How to provide data to the European Data Portal
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If you wish that your portal or website is harvested by the European Data Portal, a few key aspects need to be
checked:
Yes, you are publishing public sector information.
Are you already being harvested by another national or local portal?
If yes, make sure to mention which portals (urls) are already harvesting your data. The European
Data Portal might already be harvesting that Portal.
Is your portal accessible via API?
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The European Data Portal initial content has been collected by harvesting national public data portals.
Progressively, the portal will harvest additional data collected by regional, local and domain specific portals
To be harvested by the European Data Portal we have several technical requirements we wish to share with
you. These will be further detailed around the launch of the portal in November 2015.

This project is more than just a portal: a series of support activities
take place to support Countries publish more data
Common
Support
Activities
Peer
Learning
Tailoring Support
Activities
Assessing
activities &
findings
Landscaping
Assessingthelevelof
OpenDataMaturity
OfferingSupportto
EuropeanCountries
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2
3
4
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The objective is to provide common and tailored support to countries to accelerate the release of public data
at national and local levels.

Landscaping aims at assessing each country’s maturity as it
implements open data policies
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The Landscaping Questionnaire will help picture where each country stands for the above indicators.
Additional sources will be used to provide further insight into the second composite indicator:
Open Data Monitor
Open Data Barometer
Expected output:
An analyitcal report assessing the main trends across Europe and barriers to address to increase the
release of data sets
Individual country fiches assessing in detail where each country stands
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The Landscaping will provide the knowledge base to determining where to provide common support activities
and where to offer further specialised training and coaching assistance.
Two composite indicators have been defined to conduct an opn data maturity assessment:
Open Data Maturity Assessment
Open Data Readiness Portal maturity
1.
Presence of
Open Data
Policy
2.
Licensing
Norms
3.
Extent of
coordination at
national level
4.
Use of
Data
5.
Impact of
Open Data
6.
Usability of
the portal
7.
Re-
usability of
data
8.
Spread of
data across
domains

Developing learning to help accelerate the release of open data
sets
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Step 1: Introduction
to Open Data
Step 2: Open Data
Implementation
Step 3: Technical
deep dive
Step 4: Where next
with open data?
Support to Member States: a combination of online modules, train the trainer material and face to face
A leaders network to engage in peer learning
A 13-module interactive online training curricula:
A Gold Book for data managers
A full train-the-trainer kit to share experiences and expertise and multiply the value of open data
Tailored support:
Joint Working Sessions: Provide support to single open data implementation teams by either providing
them with skills they do not have or by allowing ‘pairing’ with a more mature country
Strategic Advice Sessions: An intense workshop with experts on open data implementation and the
local implementation team covering: objectives, licensing, technical standards, tools
Additional opportunities for coaching and support

The European Data Portal also aims at fostering the re-use of
public data resources
Four complementary work streams are focused on re-use
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Leveraging community engagement to the make the most out of Open Data
Communicating and raising awareness about the Portal
Studying the economic impact of the reuse of public data resources
Preparing for the future and working on the sustainability
Fostering
uptake on reuse
of public data
resources
Market
Size
Jobs
Created
Cost
Savings
Efficiency
Gains
Metrics to measure economic impact
Economic Benefits of Open DataCommunity Engagement
Reports to drive understanding and re-use
Topic 1: Open Data And Digital Transformation
Topic 2: Open Data And eSkills
Future actions will consist in making the most of domain specific activities: weaving our activities
into existing communities rather than creating communities of our own
Topic 3: Open Data And Entrepreneurship

Next Steps : October and November 2015 represent a crucial
milestone for the European Open Data Portal
A tight and exciting timeline!
16 November 2015 release of the Beta version for the European Data Forum
Metadata of public data made available on the EU28+ national portals
Metadata from the national geospatial portals
eLearning modules on open data
A Gold Book for data publishers
The first findings from the macro-econmic analysis
Metadata will be made available in the 24 official languages of the EU, powered by MT@EC automated translation.
Join the Open Data Journey and
support the release of data sets within
your country
High quality local data and metadata
will enable the discoverability and re-
use of your data
Data will also help develop
multilingualism

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