Hi Martin,

Is it an issue regarding format of data or the "rawness" of the data? i.e. not really much can be done with it?

Hi Martin and Gianluigi,

In this sense I've also proposed in this forum to standardise the Metadata needed to release Open Data and, particularly, Open Apps.
Kind regards

Hi Martin,

Well we have a Metadata definition (and taxonomy) already in place in Basque Government, http://opendata.euskadi.net/w79-home/es

Based on it and taking also into account the standardisation efforts of IEEE and JoinUP about the needed Metadata to release Open Source through forges, and requirements coming from our project of Decree about "Openness and Reuse of Applications", we are working on an extended version of the already existing Metadata of Basque Government's Open Data in order the result can be used also for Open Apps to be released as Open Data.
On the other hand, we are also leading a working gruop in Spain, in cooperation with representatives of the other Autonomous Communities and the General Administration of the State of Spain, and we are finishing our internal review of the first version of the quoted extended Metadata for Open Apps to distribute it among them, but I can not distribute it yet to you although maybe we can share it in few weeks...
As I said in other posts I already placed in this forum few days ago (even the discussion I specifically started about this point), I think this should be a very interesting topic to be discussed in DAA, isn't it?
In fact, I think we are going in the same direction and maybe DAA could be a good meeting point to cooperate and progress in this standardisation effort, isn't it?
Kind regards

IMHO, SLA for supporting businesses could either be handled by a few private companies OR 1 semi-governmental Publication Office.
The public administrations should provide raw data to the public (probably without any guarantee) and have a contract with the Publication Office (only). Then the P.O. can focus on providing SLAs, standardized API's, conversion services etc to companies.
If no official PO can be established, administrations should perhaps not provide SLAs, but should definitely not stop private companies that are interested in providing a similar service. It's up to the companies to mitigate the risks.

Update frequency might be an issue: are people willing to wait for a data set with higher quality, or do they want the data faster even if that means that the quality might be lower / data might be incomplete ?

About metadata, don't forget the semantic interoperability: for instance, "sea level" in Belgium is not measured the same way as sea level in the Netherlands (Amsterdam Ordnance Datum is 2 meters higher than its Belgian counterpart)

Language is certainly a challenge, both in finding datasets (how does e.g. a Norwegian performs a full text search on Bulgarian datasets) and presenting the content of the sets itself.

Provide data, forget about providing services if there is a will in the private sector to provide them. I am seeing too many cases in which open data is provided by Governments together with the service that could have been developed by private companies.

BTW, the first user of open data is going to be other governments as interoperability in the EU is still in its infancy. Open data is a first step towards government interoperability as it provides a standardisation which did not exist before. Use of RDF is quite spread among administrations using open data.

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