EPSI PLATFORM BUILDING THE PSI COMMUNITY MARTIN ALVAREZ (@ESPINR)
OPEN DATA ERASMUS MEETUP, NANTES (13-16 SEP 2014)
Funded by the European Commission Europe's One-Stop Shop on PSI Re-use
• News, happenings • Best practices • Engaging the community
European Public Sector Information Platform
EPSI PLATFORM
Official Open Data Initiatives in Europe
OPEN DATA GROWS
http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/
Crowdsourced Tool
PSI SCOREBOARD
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/european-psi-scoreboard
Thanks for your feedback!
CROWDSOURCED TOOL
http://goo.gl/3P40M
Studying stakeholders’ problems and cases
SHARING YOUR STORIES
New products, visualizations, services, apps…
SHARING GOOD (AND BAD) CASES
http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/#52.3724,4.8774,14
Lessons from the community
LEARNING FROM OTHERS
[…] procurement data and procedures concentrated in only one website, they established limitations of its search capabilities and used "word distortion techniques". We found about 10 tricks to hide the data: • Cyrillic chars instead Latin chars looking like the same • Cyrillic chars instead Latin chars for products with Latin
name, like "Hyundai" or "Microsoft" • unreasonable use of "-" inside words –e.g., The ten-der
to bu-y mi-lk. • large amount of mistakes –up to 10 mistakes per
sentence…
Everyone is welcome!
GATHERING STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER
LinkeIn, Twitter, Vimeo, G+
WHERE THE COMMUNITY IS
Ask an expert; videos; presentations…
EXPERT ADVISING
Different subjects for different profiles
MONTHLY REPORTS
SING UP TODAY!
http://epsiplatform.eu/user/register
SOME IDEAS FOR THE ERASMUS PROGRAMME
BUILDING A PSI COMMUNITY
OPEN DATA META-COMMUNITY A community on top of the regional ones
Representatives from all MS (individuals) Broad scope / creation of subgroups
• Transparency; Open Data; Reuse…
Centralized web space (mailing list, website, wiki?) Periodic meetings
• Monthly teleconferences • In person meetups ß Sponsored
OPEN DATA META-COMMUNITY Goals:
• Sharing knowledge (learning from others) • Connect isolated communities • Compilation of projects, tools, methodologies • Transpose projects to other countries, regions • Sponsor individuals to attend events abroad
• Measurable results (publications, implementations, …)