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COMUNICARE A COMISIEI CĂTRE PARLAMENTUL EUROPEAN, CONSILIU, COMITETUL ECONOMIC ȘI SOCIAL ȘI COMITETUL REGIUNILOR Datele deschise Un motor al inovării, al creșterii și al guvernanței transparente

Open Data portals are one aspect in facilitating access to and re-use of public sector information. Citizens and business sometimes find it difficult to identify what type of information exists and by which public authority it is held. A number of countries, regions and municipalities have therefore created portal websites on public data

The World Wide Web of 2011 is a mature and trusted information system, allowing its broad adoption even by laggards. As an information system owned by no one and yet open to vendors, governments and private citizens, the Web has become a natural place to publish information for public dissemination.

The wide availability of Web clients, be they on mobile phones, laptop or desktop computers, tablets or game consoles, and the provision of public access services (especially by libraries) has made publication on the Web a preferred way for governments to empower their citizenry, if done in a standards-compliant manner. The goal of the W3C Linked Data Cookbook is to provide practical guidance to developers and technology managers who are embarking on the process of publishing open government content. We will begin with a process overview, identifying data sets and then outline the entire process, from start to finish. We'll introduce the Linked Data "star" scheme and describe the trade-offs of publishing quickly versus taking the time to model more complex data sets with higher re-use potential. Data in the RDF family of standards is well on its way to becoming Linked Data, but it is not ubiquitous yet. Linked Data principles still need to be applied. This guide is intended to assist in describing how to produce high quality, “4 and 5 star Linked Data."

Ever more governments around the world are defining and implementing “open data” strategies in order to increase transparency, participation and/or government efficiency.

The commonly accepted premise underlying these strategies is that the publishing of government data in a reusable format can strengthen citizen engagement and yield new innovative businesses. However, as these open data strategies are relatively new, evidence of this expected impact is still limited. Important questions currently debated are: What is an appropriate open data strategy for governments? Why are some governments succeeding in opening up their databases and others struggling? How can open data policies contribute to increase citizens’ trust and participation in government and provide an economic spur? In an inquiry for the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) examined the open data strategies in five countries and gathered anecdotal evidence of its key features, barriers and drivers for progress and effects. In this article we will give a brief overview of the research results and define key challenges for effective open data policy. Two of the main conclusions are that sound evidence of the precise effects is lacking (e.g. economic, social and democratic effects) and that the acquisition of more knowledge could strengthen a well-informed debate, remove governments’ reluctance to invest in open data strategies and help them to develop an effective policy.

The Open Government Data movement which recently becomes visible in various countries promotes openness for public sector information.

This is often materialised with public sector catalogues becoming available through governmental portals where public agencies make their datasets available to the general public. There are two main prerequisites for establishing an Open Data policy: a) high availability of the data, preferably in formats that are both human and machine friendly and b) openness, meaning allowing reuse of the data for all purposes and with no restrictions. Interestingly, and despite the clear move towards Open Data, there is currently very little discussion, if any, on Open Government Metadata. Is such discussion useful and relevant in the more general topic of eGovernment interoperability at a European level?