(Revised) PSI Directive Theme: Platforms
As the length of the list of Best Practices suggests: there is more to sharing public sector information available and encouraging its reuse than simply sticking a PDF on an organisations' Web site. Documents and data are the raw material for a community of providers and reusers, each with different needs. Those needs are most readily met through a dedicated platform that has a number of functions:
- a catalogue of documents and data, accessible by humans and machines;
- a catalogue of uses of documents and data, again, accessible by humans and machines;
- a discussion forum;
- a dissemination channel;
- a feedback channel.
Platforms may offer further functionality such as data conversion and visualisation.
The Best Practices below expand on these themes.