Kick Off Meeting Raw Notes

Minutes

• Scribe: Benedikt Kämpgen
• Starting: 14:08

Introduction to session by Phil Archer

• two groups have problems with the meeting in July.
• what topic? How to align with Best Practices, case studies of partners?

1st presentation: Jens Klessmann - Berlin

• Slides FOKUS
• Open Data @ Fraunhofer FOKUS & the Open Data Dialog
• Date of Workshop
• Introducing Fraunhofer
• Involved in several international and national Open Data projects

Workshop

• 5th Workshop
• Berlin
• Date not settled, yet (?)
• Planned to be collocated with "The Open Data Dialog" (third this time)
• Example topics: OD in Industry, Geodata, Data & Trust...

Questions

• Topic was chosen by whom?
  • Was chosen by Fraunhofer FOKUS
  • That topic or the topic that Krems suggested (Business Models).
  • Open to other topics

• In touch with OKNF Germany?
  • Yes, very much.
  • Suggestion to more connect the German speaking Open Data community.

• Who is responsible for Open Data in Germany?
  • Different minstries, but the lead has the Ministry for Interior Affairs working together with the states (Laender).

2nd presentation: Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems (DUK)

• Slides
• Krems - Austria
• May 2015
• Planned to be collocated with CeDEM - Conference for eDemocracy and Open Government
  • Beth Simone Noveck last time as Key Note.
• Suggestion for this second meeting: 19. & 20.05. 2015 (CDEM 20.-22. May 2015)
• Planned topic: Business Models

Questions

• When and how will date and topic be set?
  • Date will suggested by Krems OC, confirmed by consensus
  • Topic will be set in Lisbon

• Place difficult to get to?
  • We could arrange shared taxis or a bus.
  • But only possible if many people arrive at around the same time.

3rd presentation: Dana - Timisoara, Romania

slides

• Third workshop
• Timisoara, Romania
• Venue
  • Reachable should not be problem
  • Big rooms available
  • Social: Supercomputer Center Romania
• Large team. Organises at least 4 events per year.

• Planned: Joined event with HOST EU project (if extended for a couple of months)

Questions

• What will be the topic?
  • We will decide in Samos.

4th presentation: André - Lisbon, Portugal

• slides
• From AMA - Agency for the Administrative Modernization (Agência para a Modernização Administrativa)
• eGovernment, ICT, Public Administration
• Aiming at beginning of December 2014
• Venues: Not decided, but university has enough space.
• Try to tie with:
  • Portuguese National Event related to Open Government more general. No official cross-over, though.
  • Another might be an international conference, but nothing clear, yet.

Question

• What will the topic be about
  • How to make a billionaire with Open Data?
  • Topic: aiming at commercial developers (more on business side)

• Should we focus on SMEs?

• How to get the hard-core developers get in contact with some venture capitalist?

• How would organise dissemination, especially to data users such as TomTom etc.

Other possible events we could collocate with

5th presentation: Open Knowledge Festival

• Open Govermnent Data, Research Data
• Two days main event, two days possible project days
• 15. - 18.th of July 2014
• 1500 - 2000 people aimed at
• Might be a good event-type to collocate with
• Festival might be option for 2015, but nothing sure, yet.

World Wide Web Conference in Florence in April 2015

• Another example event one could collocate with

• Of no one is against it, we stick with the plan of the current proposals of workshops.

Handing over Scribe to Steinar at 14:44.

Samos - Workshop #1

Yannis and Harris

[Samos Summit slides]

The IS Laboratory in Samos

Aegaen - new, small University In Samos we are somebody -- in Athens we were …

Central in the Samos community

List of what topics they are working on, especially topic 1 and 2, after starting on topic 4, 5

Relevant Research projects

• ENGAGE - with Fraunhofer - Open Data Lifecycle, Open Data Research Areas Taxonomy. Will present results from Engage
• EU community - Open Data for policy making
• NOMAD - policy formulation through social media

This year's summits was originally planned without Share PSI 2.0. This will make a much huger conference

• Innovation and entrepreneurship contests
• Doing more and more on startups
• Planning an open data hackathon

One of the closest island to Turkey. Can swim there Hicks-conference inspired Samos summit

20.000 inhabitants. Nice coast at the south - a bit colder water at the north. The summit is at the south.

The main idea is to be collaborative and participative, everyone knows each other

The topic is related to government and ICT

In 2013 in conjunction with the Summer School on Open and Collaborative Governance. Worked very well

List of former Summits 2010: 2011: 2012: 2013: 2014: "ICT Governance" - originally

June 30th (Monday) to Wednesday -- 2,5 days

Usually people come in Sunday

Many projects come, have their meetings there

Typically one big room (200), four parallel rooms (20-30)

Media-students can do video-interviews

All about collaborations, so workshops, Trying to invite people - to generate ideas, Posters

A very nice hotel, 3-4 flights from Athens every day

Quite expensive hotel, € 130. walking distance to a hotel ca half price, Every transportations the organisers take care of,

But: Therefore need for some money

Phil: Must be possible to participate without cost. But there can be a cost on coffee and meals

Usually two social dinners

Wine testing (famous Samos sweet wines)

Visit in Karlovassi /university of Aegaen

Visit the Pythagoras cave …

Themes to be covered this year on 2014 Samos Summit on ICT-enabled Governance

• Open and linked data applications, technological frameworks and standardization approaches
• Big data management technologies in policy support, with an emphasis in simulation, mining and visualiszaiton approaches
• Global Systems Science
• Interoperable infrastructures and cloud technologies for open and collaborative governance scenarios

Call for Contributions already published - on the web-page (March 1st)

The Share PSI is a thing within a bigger thing. Will have its own programme committee

Will consider shared sessions with the parallel, if there is interest. Will see depending on the how many sends in papers

The Share PSI 2.0 Workshop

"Uses of Open Data within government for innovation and efficiency" or "uses of Open Data for ICT-enabled Governance"

A Workshop spanning in several sessions (of typically 1,5-2 hours) over 2 days, plus 1 day for a project meeting of 50 people

The workshop will be attended by SHARE PSI 2.0 partners but also by external organisastions

Important dates (proposed)

• Mid February - CfP for share PSI Workshop released
• Mid March: Submission deadline
• Mid April: Notifications of Acceptance / start of registration -- hard if it is 100 ...

Need to confirm participation in time for registration …

Today:

• Topics identification
• Workshop organising committee (session chairs & rapporteurs)
  • Like to prepare a draft of the output -- the goal is a "Samos Declaration" when the Summit ends
• Workshop programme committee (OC & extra members)
  • KeyNote-speakers

• Maximum Number of Participants (project & external)
• Own vs external contributions
• Nature of Workshops (paper presentations or collaborative idea collection?)

Add names to Google Spreadsheet - for organisation

Dana: Proceedings? Springer?

Yannis: Proceedings published as a Google Doc

Traditionally not even paper-based submits, only abstracts. Now, with Share PSI - four pages papers

Georgia: With proceedings there are licence-issues we must discuss?

Yannis: Only a simple copyright-statement, the author has the copyright, but the accept to

Make sure in the call; everyone who submits must agree to the open publication (free to read)

Yannis: Do we have to submit papers ourselves?

Phil: Everyone has committed themselves to at least one paper. Must not be the same as the external submitters, but can be.

Ideally ten partners pr workshop (hopefully not everyone at the first …)

The Google Doc SHARE-PSI_WS-Organisation-Template

Different topics -- some directly from the DoW:

• PSI Sharing and OGD status at regional, national and district level
• Open data for policy making support and evidence-based decision making by administrations
• Open data for research, on societal challnges tackling
• Open data for citizens; transparency, social evolution, and information
• Open data for businesses and SMEs
• Open data resources and infrastructures status - what is happening on the platform/infrastructure
• The Open Data Lifecycle (1.0: public sector publishes, other consume, 2.0: Citizens also produce, link …)

Yannis tells his students to avoid erasing, but add text and comments. Applies to us also

Phil: With regards to the open data lifecycle. The DWBP WG is struggling with the same topic. Happy to see it on the list

Maxk: The list is really "everything". Must narrow it down. Especially missing "for efficiency in public sector". A study shows the public sector uses open data, linked data for increasing efficiency within public sector agencies

Yannis: Add "for efficiency" in the

??: Too broad - what's the use?

Phil: Agrees, includes all types of use for Open Data. Can add "within government"

Yannis: Maybe those who have voulenteered for the first, can give comments on the list?

Serbia: Statistical data publishing - supported with tools. Harvested by Public Data.EU-portal, harvested.

Mateja: Haven't applied to be the organising committee, but would like to present a case on spending from public sector - would like to join the program committee.

Yannis: Is the Serbian case use of Open Data within government? Who is using the data?

Yannis: Who has cases where the government uses the published data themeselves?

Nancy: Greek ministry of administration reform: A transparency portal - all decision taken by public sector. Academic institutions working on the data, and controlling the public sector. Controlling mechanisms in public sector can easier perform their control because they easier can see how the decisions are made.

Mateja: The Slovenia-case is similar

FVH: ?? -

Krems: How open data is organised in different governments. Leading to different concensus-finding structures. How to organise the open data movement

Phil: Believe that is a separate topic, now we are looking for "payback" for government for publishing data (if not everyone becomes a billionaire based on the open data, at least it will be useful to find out whether it drives innovation and efficiency within the public sector)

Open Data France: Philippe: Marseille -- every data produced by transport, tourism, had to be put in the public data infrastructure. Trip-calculator

Martin Spain/CTIC: Two years ago Spanish government launched open data portal. Had to publish it twice -- input the metadata twice. Now federating the local and regional data-catalogues, through DCAT.

Phil: does this mean that more people are using it?

Spain: Less work for central government, at least … - just point the sparql-endpoint in the right direction.

Spain: Case two: Structure of spanish government - gathered in a spreadsheet. Whish to change this, through publishing using the Org-ontology, and harvesting.

Spain: Case three: Change the web-services for realtime information on bus-stop. People makes app, replaces the expensive displays on the bus-stop, instead shown on

Pieter (Gent) Governement services - published list. Different organisation claimed the ownership for the different public services. Different IDs for same services [toilets]. Makes for simplifying the organisational structure of Gent local government

Dana: Open Data 4 U (CIP-project). Cultural events, videos, jobs, exchange rates … success-stories by persons on the net. In Spain there is also

Scribe switches to Jens

• presentations by the different prospective workshop hosts
• all workshops topics so far will be further decided in Samos
• questions were discussed concerning hosting the workshops in rather large cities,
• Samos Summit 2014, starts in 30th of June
• Workshop has to be free for attendance. It can be charged for dinner and coffee breaks
• Fitting Themes at Samos Summit this year: Open and linked Data applications
• General Deadline for papers in Samos is currently 1st of March
• Separate deadline for CfP for Share PSI
• Workshop topic in Samos:
• schedule proposal by Yannis:
  • CfP for SharePSI be released by mid of February
  • mid March Submission Deadline
  • mid April: Notification of acceptance
• Issues for solving
  • topics identification
    • Open Data Uses for Innovation in Government
    • Uses of Open Data in ICT-enabled Governance
      • • CfP Topics see Google Doc
  • workshop organizing committee
  • workshop programme committee (invite people from outside the consortium)
• Questions:
  • Proceedings? Samos Summit has only electronic proceedings
  • Problem of conflicting licences with papers being published in proceedings under another licence
    • so far Samos Summit has asked for the agreement to publish
  • suggestions: narrow down the topics,
  • What ideas do the members of the organizing committee would like to present
    • lifecycle of statistical data and tools for managing this
    • MNZ Slovenia: government use of OD: An app presenting spending data
    • Slovenia would like to join the organizing committee
    • Greek ministry: transparency portal where decisions from the public sector are published. Can be used by public institutions to make quality control
    • ODF (France)
    • Ghent: getting different datasets concerning the same topic aligned (e.g. public toilet locations and types)
    • UVT: Seed
    • Birmingham: Present the steps Birmingham has undertaken
    • Eurocities working group on Open Data has published a guide book
    • Austria: Paper on how to organize innovation in the public sector?
    • TUDOR Muriel: Case study from the e-Sense project
    • ODI: OD for businesses and SMEs, have 9 case studies so far
    • paper proposers should put their case study title in the Google Doc
      • so far 15 cases from the consortium
      • Yannis will come up with a CfP based on the case study titles
    • Most case studies proposed do not directly fit the title of the Samos workshop (innovation IN the government)

Wrapping up

• Harris will send mail to consortium about the next steps for organizing the Samos workshop
• Programme committee:
• Phil will send a list of the contact details of all consortium members
• Get an account on W3C website in order to edit the wiki
• Comments: Technical standards as only goal for share psi?
  • LAPSI is looking at legal guidelines. Technical solutions to implement legal guidelines would be fantastic
  • EU is going to publish general abstract guidelines concerning licencing.
  • Phil is skeptical about trying to create machine readable licences, but the project could do within bound some technical suggestions
  • How to go about organizational issues around OD? Maybe create something like a cook book with recipes (there is one in Dutch)
    • Organizational guidelines are difficult to generalize
    • Rome has a generalized model depicting the "lifecycle" of data provision and usage with different phases
    • ENGAGE is producing a deliverable on the upstream lifecycle of OD