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Best Practices/Establish Open Government Portal for Open Data sharing and re-use
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Outline
Data portals can facilitate the distribution of open data by providing an easy-to-access, searchable hub for multiple data sets.
Management summary
Challenge
Public administrations consist of government bodies of differing sizes, and often, their information systems lack interoperability. Data sets are of different size volumes sometimes relating to small localities only, which makes them less interesting to the infomediary sector. Furthermore, the data sets are in different formats which complicates their re-use.
Solution
An independent organization is involved in establishment and maintaining the government portal, preferably from the R&D or education sector where computer engineering students and researchers are involved in direct re-use of data in development of innovative services (web and mobile applications).
Best Practice identification
Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice
- Open data strategy will create multiple business opportunities (Innovative services based on Open Data, New start-ups)
- Using open data formats, public administrations can easily share and update data from various sources thus improving interoperability
- Dissemination of government activities in media and at scientific events
Links to the PSI Directive
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
- To promote and improve interoperability between the different local councils´ information systems.
- To offer larger volume data sets to the infomediary sector.
- To define data formats and common vocabulary to facilitate the reutilization of data sets.
- To generate data sets of greater interest to infomediaries.
What do you need for this Best Practice?
If Member States want to adopt this Best Practice they will have to:
- Identify people and leadership in the institutions to handle open data
- Work out the open data strategy from different perspectives, top-down and bottom-up.
- Find consensus to prioritize the data sets to be published and the vocabulary and semantics to be used.
- Dedicate people and resources to the project
- Identification of data providers, their data sets and formats.
Applicability to other Member States
Implementation of many government portals have been supported by R&D sector.
Contact info
José Luis Roda-García – Director of the Canaries´ Open Data Platform – University of La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain
www.opendatacanarias.es – info@opendatacanarias.es -- jlroda@ull.edu.es
Pedro González-Yanes – Co-director of the Canaries´ Open Data Platform – University of La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain
www.opendatacanarias.es – info@opendatacanarias.es -- jlroda@ull.edu.es
- For editorial issues: Valentina Janev, Institute Mihajlo Pupin, valentina.janev@institutepupin.com.