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Best Practices
This is the original page where BP stories and Atomic BPs have been collected.
See the results of the survey in File:Share-PSI Best Practice Evaluation.xls
This page is now superseded by BP_2
This page lists links to specific best practices. They are also shown as Word Clouds and there is a starter OWL file to be used for card-sorting.(catalog-v001.xml included for protege ) In addition there is some very experimental document clustering work.
Contents
- 1 Distribution of BPs by PSI Element
- 2 Stories from the workshops
- 3 Template
- 4 Related Best Practices
Distribution of BPs by PSI Element
The lists below are based on the spreadsheet prepared initially by Makx File:BPs-vs-PSI Directive.xlsx. Please see the implementation report for status of the proposed BPs and evidence.
Policies and Legislation
Covering topics like:
- Legal requirements
- licenses etc.
- licensing of information, data and metadata)
Primary responsibility: Nancy
Stories
- Best Practices/Cross Agency Strategy
- Best Practices/Open Data Publication Plan
- Best Practices/High Level Support
- Best Practices/Holistic Metrics
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Open For The Country
- Best Practices/Publishing Statistical Data In Linked Data Format
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals (Consider linking to DCAT-AP)
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Opening Up Public Transport Information to Save Costs
- Best Practices/Commercial Considerations in Open Data Portal Design
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Free our maps
- Best Practices/Open Data Startups Accelerator
- Best Practices/Encouragement via bonuses
- Best Practices/The Central Role of Location
- Indented line
Atomic BPs
- Best Practices/Develop and Implement a Cross Agency Strategy ✔ See http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/bp/cas/
- Best Practices/Develop an Open Data Publication Plan ✔ See http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/bp/odpp/
- Best Practices/Maintain records of stakeholders' rights and interests
- Best Practices/Assess Holistic Metrics
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing around PSI
- Best Practices/Manage A Wide Public Actors Network ✔
- Best Practices/Open National Research Results (out of scope for PSID)
- Best Practices/Publish Statistical data in Linked Data format
- Best Practices/Develop a federation tool for open data portals ✔
- Best Practices/Involve Journalists In Open Data Policy
- Best Practices/Open Up Public Transport Data ✔
- Best Practices/Implement data marketplaces and data enrichment business models
- Best Practices/Study the Companies that Build on PSI at National Level
- Best Practices/Discuss Openning Up Geospatial Information
- Best Practices/Support Open Data Start Ups ✔
- Best Practices/Motivate Stakeholders via Bonuses
External BPs
None from W3C as this is a non-tech topic
Platforms
Covering:
- Open data platform(s)
- publication and deployment of information
- data and metadata
Primary responsibility: Fatemeh
Stories
- Best Practices/Human Readability and Machine Processing
- Best Practices/Catalogs and Indexes
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Publishing Statistical Data In Linked Data Format
- Best Practices/Civic Use Of Open Data
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Opening Up Public Transport Information to Save Costs
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals (Consider linking to DCAT-AP)
- Best Practices/Commercial Considerations in Open Data Portal Design
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location
- Best Practices/An ongoing open dialog in an open data ecosystem
- Best Practices/Open Data by Open Software in Szeged
- Best Practices/Open Data Startups Accelerator
- Best Practices/OpenMove - open platform for mobile ticketing
- Best Practices/Make the data available in the language people want it
Atomic BPs
- Best Practices/A federation tool for open data portals ✔ but is a duplicate
- Best Practices/Catalogs and Indexes for Reference Supported but needs work
- Best Practices/Citizens Participation to Improve Open Data Portal Productivity and Efficiency
- Best Practices/Commercial Considerations for Open Data Portal Design
- Best Practices/Crowdsourcing of PSI ✔ But duplicate
- Best Practices/Linked Data Approach for Publishing Statistical Data
- Best Practices/Standards for Geospecial data ✔ but needs work - too general
- Best Practices/Open Platform for mobile ticketing OpenMove
- Best Practices/Different publication formats for both human readers or for machine processing ✔ (Covered by W3C)
External BPs
The Metadata section of the DWBP doc is likely to be useful
Dataset criteria
Covering:
- Dataset criteria
- priorities
- value and scope
Primary responsibility: Emma
Stories
- Nicolas Loozen's talk in Timisoara was very relevant to this. paper & slides [Best_practice/dataset_criteria]
- Best Practices/User engagement and collaboration throughout the lifecycle
- Best Practices/Stakeholders’ Interests and Rights [not convinced this is relevant to dataset criteria]
- Best Practices/Catalogs and Indexes [not convinced this is substantial enough to include as a best practice]
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing [1]
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network [this is an example of implementing a national network for open data, rather than a best practice for dataset criteria]
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Open For The Country
- Best Practices/Open Data Publication Plan
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Open Data To Improve Sharing And Publication Of Information Between Public Administrations
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics [this is not directly relevant to dataset criteria]
- Best Practices/Open Data 2.0 - Changing Perspectives
- Best Practices/Free our maps [better in policy?]
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location [not relevant to dataset criteria]
- Best Practices/Raising awareness and engaging citizens in re-using PSI [not relevant to dataset criteria]
Atomic BPs
- Best practice/dataset criteria ✔
- Best Practices/User engagement and collaboration throughout the lifecycle
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Open Within a Country
- Best Practices/Open Data Publication
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing 1
- Best Practices/Improve Sharing and Publication of Information between Public Administrations
- Best Practices/Open Data 2.0 - Changing Perspectives
External BPs
See the Sensitive data and feedback sections of the DWBP doc. Note also the Dataset Usage Vocabulary.
Charging
Covering:
- Charging issues and proposals
Primary responsibility:' Makx
Stories
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Cost of Publication
- Best Practices/DigMap- digital map excerpt
Atomic BPs
None of the Best Practices listed cover the topic of charging for data by the Public Sector. Some raise the issue that it is hard for the Public Sector to determine what data has commercial potential, but all of them pre-suppose that the data is made available openly and for free. Nevertheless, I tried to derive a general Best Practice from various stories:
- Best Practices/Provide PSI at zero charge (no consensus yet - seen as too political)
External BPs
Not really in scope for W3C. TOG??
Techniques
Covering:
- Techniques for opening data, technical requirements and tools.
Primary responsibility: Valentina
Stories
- Best Practices/Human Readability and Machine Processing
- Best Practices/Cost of Publication
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Publishing Statistical Data In Linked Data Format
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Open Data Business Model Patterns and Open Data Business Value Disciplines
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location
- Best Practices/Discover published information by site scraping
- Best Practices/DigMap- digital map excerpt
- Best Practices/Open Data Bulk Download ----the same as the W3C BP Provide bulk download
- Best Practices/OpenMove - open platform for mobile ticketing
- Best Practices/References to spatial entities
Atomic BPs
- Best Practices/Ensure Human Readability ✔ Generally OK but overlaps with others
- Best Practices/Cost-benefit analysis of the value of information
- Best Practices/Enable effective networking and communication
- Best Practices/Establish Open Government Portal for Open Data sharing and re-use ✔ But see Jan for further comment
- Best Practices/Support Federation of Open Data Portals ✔ But is a duplicate
- Best Practices/Evaluate appropriateness for public disclosure and sharing
- Best Practices/Automate identification of already published information
- Best Practices/Standardized geo-spatial data processing ✔ but questionable need for geospatial focus. Also refers to ISO19115 - OK, but GeoDCAT-AP might be more appropriate for European PSI
- Best Practices/Interlinking of geospatial entities ✔ but questionable need for geospatial focus
- Best Practices/Standardized statistical data processing
- Best Practices/Use open software within and outside of the public administration
External BPs
A lot of the DWBP doc should be relevant here so it's really a question of matching BPs in that doc to what the stores say. An obvious one to highlight is the Bulk download BP. The Context section has a handy diagram followed shortly afterwards by the current list of the actual BPs.
Organisation
Covering:
- How to organise PSI sharing
- Necessary functions and communications
Primary responsibility: Noel
Stories
- Best Practices/Cross Agency Strategy
- Best Practices/Organisational-internal engagement
- Best Practices/Cost of Publication- =cost
- Best Practices/Identifying what you already publish - =Techniques
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Open For The Country
- Best Practices/Using Business Process Paradigm For Open Data Lifecycle Management - = Quality
- Best Practices/Open Data To Improve Sharing And Publication Of Information Between Public Administrations
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Commercial Considerations in Open Data Portal Design - = Portal
- Best Practices/Open Data 2.0 - Changing Perspectives - =Charging
- Best Practices/Open Data Business Model Patterns and Open Data Business Value Disciplines - = Re-Use
- Best Practices/An ongoing open dialog in an open data ecosystem
- Best Practices/Discover published information by site scraping - = Techniques
- Best Practices/Open Data Startups Accelerator - = Re-Use
- Best Practices/Encouragement via bonuses - = Policies and Legislation
- Best Practices/Open Data Monitoring and Benchmarking - = Quality
- Best Practices/Stakeholders’ Interests and Rights - = Policies and Legislation
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Boosting citizens’ awareness through the reuse of existing resources - = Platforms
- Best Practices/Bottom-up organisation
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location - = Discoverability
Atomic BPs
- Best Practices/Establish an Open Data Ecosystem ✔
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Available for Re-use Some support but this is out of scope for PSID
External BPs
Pretty much out of scope for W3C. Maybe others?
Formats
Covering:
- Dataset structures
- formats
- APIs
Primary responsibility: Valentina
Stories
- Best Practices/Human Readability and Machine Processing
- Best Practices/Publish spatial data on the web
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Publishing Statistical Data In Linked Data Format
- Best Practices/Supervizor - An Indispensable Open Government Application (Transparency Of Public Spending)
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Open Data To Improve Sharing And Publication Of Information Between Public Administrations
- Best Practices/Opening Up Public Transport Information to Save Costs
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location
- Best Practices/Open Data by Open Software in Szeged
- Best Practices/DigMap- digital map excerpt
Atomic BPs
- analyzing the stories, one can conclude that few of them are directly linked to the PSI element 'format' and provide evidence for best practices already identified by the W3C Data on the Web Working Group, e.g.
External BPs
Re-use
Covering:
- Encouraging (commercial) re-use
Primary responsibility: Martin
Stories
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Open Data Startups Accelerator
- Best Practices/DigMap- digital map excerpt
- Best Practices/Open Data Business Model Patterns and Open Data Business Value Disciplines
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location
Atomic BPs
- Best Practices/Create Business Accelerators to Encourage PSI Re-Use ✔ duplicate
- Best Practices/Assess the Local Infomediary Sector to Engage New PSI Re-Users
- Best Practices/Get Journalists Involved throughout the Open Data Cycle Again resistance to citing specific end users
- Best Practices/Release Geographic Data through Open Source GIS Not in its present form.
- Best Practices/Encourage Crowdsourcing in the Open Data Process
- Best Practices/Prioritise Publication of Spatial Data
- Best Practices/Apply Open Data Business Model Patterns and Open Data Business Value Disciplines
External BPs
Pretty much out of scope for W3C
Persistence
Covering:
- Persistence of data and metadata
- Maintenance and metadata
Primary responsibility: Peter
Stories
- Best Practices/Using Business Process Paradigm For Open Data Lifecycle Management
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals
- Best Practices/Open Data 2.0 - Changing Perspectives
- Best Practices/References to spatial entities
Atomic BPs
To do
External BPs
Quality
Covering:
- Data quality issues and solutions
- quality assurance
- feedback channels and evaluation
Primary responsibility: Valentina
Stories
- Best Practices/User engagement and collaboration throughout the lifecycle
- Best Practices/Feedback to Improve Quality
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing
- Best Practices/Open Data quality assessment
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Open For The Country
- Best Practices/Using Business Process Paradigm For Open Data Lifecycle Management
- Best Practices/Supervizor - An Indispensable Open Government Application (Transparency Of Public Spending)
- Best Practices/Civic Use Of Open Data
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Boosting citizens’ awareness through the reuse of existing resources
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Open Data 2.0 - Changing Perspectives
- Best Practices/Free our maps
- Best Practices/Raising awareness and engaging citizens in re-using PSI
Atomic BPs
- Best practices/Encourage active participation in Open Data Lifecycle ✔ but might be too generic. Essentially duplicate of Establish an Open Data Ecosystem
- Best practices/Enable feedback channels for improving the quality of existing government data ✔
- Best practices/Enable quality assessment of open data ✔ (including provenance info)
- Best practices/Engage community in building complete, accurate, up to date public open databases
- Best practices/Use Infomediary Sector as feedback channel and evaluator of public datasets
External BPs
- See also Data Quality Vocab
Documentation
Covering:
- Documentation of information/data
- creation of metadata.
Primary responsibility: Makx
Stories
- Best Practices/Human Readability and Machine Processing
- Best Practices/Stakeholders’ Interests and Rights
- Best Practices/Publication with Common Metadata
- Best Practices/Identifying what you already publish
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Publishing Statistical Data In Linked Data Format
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Open Data by Open Software in Szeged
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location
Atomic BPs
- Best Practices/Agree metadata schema for federated index ✔
- Best Practices/Categorise openness of data General agreement but not universal
- Best Practices/Express statistical data using the Data Cube vocabulary ✔ Duplication
External BPs
Selection
Covering:
- Selection of information/data to be published according to various criteria.
Primary responsibility: Jan
Stories
- Best Practices/User engagement and collaboration throughout the lifecycle
- Best Practices/Stakeholders’ Interests and Rights
- Best Practices/Catalogs and Indexes
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Open Data Publication Plan
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Open Data To Improve Sharing And Publication Of Information Between Public Administrations
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Opening Up Public Transport Information to Save Costs
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Open Data 2.0 - Changing Perspectives
- Best Practices/Open Data Business Model Patterns and Open Data Business Value Disciplines
- Best Practices/An ongoing open dialog in an open data ecosystem
- Best Practices/Discover published information by site scraping
- Best Practices/Free our maps
- Best Practices/Open Data by Open Software in Szeged
- Best Practices/Open Data Monitoring and Benchmarking
- Best Practices/Raising awareness and engaging citizens in re-using PSI
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location
- Best Practices/Supervizor - An Indispensable Open Government Application (Transparency Of Public Spending)
- Best Practices/Civic Use Of Open Data
Atomic BPs
- Best Practices/Identify what you already publish ✔
- Best Practices/Publish overview of managed data ✔
- Best Practices/Respect legislation and stakeholders' rights ✔ (but it basically says 'follow the law' so not much use)
- Best Practices/Understand demand for data ✔ Generally though not unanimous
- Best Practices/Understand your internal needs and priorities ✔ Generally though not unanimous
- Best Practices/Select high value datasets for publication
External BPs
Note the development of the Dataset Usage Vocabulary
Discoverability
Covering:
- Self evident
Primary responsibility: Peter
Stories
- Best Practices/Human Readability and Machine Processing
- Best Practices/Optimization for Search Engines
- Best Practices/Publication with Common Metadata
- Best Practices/Publish spatial data on the web
- Best Practices/Identifying what you already publish
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Open For The Country
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Open Data Business Model Patterns and Open Data Business Value Disciplines
- Best Practices/The Central Role of Location
- Best Practices/An ongoing open dialog in an open data ecosystem
- Best Practices/DigMap- digital map excerpt
- Best Practices/Make the data available in the language people want it
- Best Practices/Raising awareness and engaging citizens in re-using PSI
- Best Practices/References to spatial entities
Atomic BPs
- Best Practices/For People to Read and Machines To Process ✔ but dupliacate
- Best Practices/Discover By Location ✔ but is it PSI D relevant?
- Best Practices/Promote PSI Re-use
External BPs
Stories from the workshops
Initial set
- Best Practices/Cross Agency Strategy
- Best Practices/High Level Support
- Best Practices/Holistic Metrics
- Best Practices/User engagement and collaboration throughout the lifecycle
- Best Practices/Organisational-internal engagement
- Best Practices/Human Readability and Machine Processing
- Best Practices/Cost of Publication
- Best Practices/Stakeholders’ Interests and Rights
- Best Practices/Feedback to Improve Quality
- Best Practices/Optimization for Search Engines
- Best Practices/Publication with Common Metadata
- Best Practices/Catalogs and Indexes
- Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing
- Best Practices/Publish spatial data on the web
- Best Practices/Open Data quality assessment
- Best Practices/Identifying what you already publish
Samos workshop
- Best Practices/Management Of A Wide Public Actors Network
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Open For The Country
- Best Practices/Using Business Process Paradigm For Open Data Lifecycle Management
- Best Practices/Publishing Statistical Data In Linked Data Format
- Best Practices/Supervizor - An Indispensable Open Government Application (Transparency Of Public Spending)
- Best Practices/Civic Use Of Open Data
- Best Practices/Open Data Publication Plan
- Best Practices/A Federation Tool For Opendata Portals
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Open Data To Improve Sharing And Publication Of Information Between Public Administrations
- Best Practices/Boosting citizens’ awareness through the reuse of existing resources
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Opening Up Public Transport Information to Save Costs
Lisbon workshop
- Best Practices/Commercial Considerations in Open Data Portal Design
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Open Data 2.0 - Changing Perspectives
- Best Practices/Open Data Business Model Patterns and Open Data Business Value Disciplines
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location
Timisoara workshop
- Best Practices/An ongoing open dialog in an open data ecosystem
- Best Practices/Discover published information by site scraping
- Best Practices/Free our maps
- Best Practices/Open Data by Open Software in Szeged
Krems workshop
Berlin workshop
To be collected here
Google forms output
- Best Practices/Bottom-up organisation
- Best Practices/DigMap- digital map excerpt
- Best Practices/Encouragement via bonuses
- Best Practices/Open Data Bulk Download
- Best Practices/Open Data Monitoring and Benchmarking
- Best Practices/OpenMove - open platform for mobile ticketing
- Best Practices/Make the data available in the language people want it
- Best Practices/Raising awareness and engaging citizens in re-using PSI
- Best Practices/References to spatial entities
Template
This is the template to use for drafting Best Practices. The template itself is itself subject to change of course but reflects the discussion in Timisoara, 16 March 2015
You are likely to find this Google form useful as well as Noel's mind map
Doc To MediaWiki Converter is useful.
Title
The title of the Best Practice. On the wiki this is the page title and is included in the URL. This will be used to refer to BP. It should be effective in capturing the essence of the BP.
Short description
A short description of the BP. Typically less than a line long. The focus should on the intent behind the BP. It should answer the question "What particular problem does the BP address?"
Why
A brief summary describing the problem this BP is addressing, and the context in which it arises. How do I know that I need to follow a particular pattern? It may describe a scenario that illustrates the problem and explain how the BP solves the problem. It should also explain why the BP is important.
Intended Outcome
This is the key to the BP: what should be true when the BP has been implemented.
This section is unlikely to be long but should be very clear.
Relationship to PSI Directive
Each Best Practice should refer to one or more elements of the PSI Directive which was amended in 2013. See here for consolidated versions in all MS languages.
Possible Approach
This section may be longer and set out one or more possible ways to achieve the intended outcome.
It should include rationale of why this solution is better than the others
How to Test
Often quite short. In the case of Share-PSI BPs, it's likely that all tests will need to be carried out by people rather than machines but if something is machine testable, that's often more precise.
Evidence
We need a link to one or more places that provide evidence for this being a BP. This might be a specific paragraph in a workshop report or some other document.
It will often refer to examples of where the BP has been implemented, ideally with contact information for the team responsible.
Tags
List of terms describing the BP. Think of these tags as unstructured metadata helping others to search for or filter BPs.
Intended Audience
Describe the group of people for which the BP is designed for. Examples: business analysts, data managers, application developers, senior officials, strategy makers etc.
Related Best Practices
What BP are closely related to this one? What are the important differences? With which other BP should this one be used?