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Best Practices/Promote PSI Re-use
Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice
Promote PSI Re-use
Source:
- Best Practices/Raising awareness and engaging citizens in re-using PSI
- Best Practices/An ongoing open dialog in an open data ecosystem
- Best Practices/Open Data Business Model Patterns and Open Data Business Value Disciplines
- Best Practices/Infomediary Sector Characteristics
- Best Practices/Traffic Light System For Data Sharing
- Best Practices/Getting Journalists Involved In the Process Of Opening Up Data
- Best Practices/Identifying what you already publish
- Best Practices/Making Research Results Open For The Country
Contents
Outline
There are many approaches towards increasing the use and re-purposing of PSI. Making the publication process scalable is facilitated by a mechanism to easily identify private and confidential information that should not be published. All other material can be directed to citizens and intermediary processors such as journalists or data specialists. The end product should be an industrialised process that provides a standardised and quality-assured information product that is the foundation of a sustainable PSI business model.
Management summary
Challenge
To grow the use and re-use of PSI
Solution
Publishers should have a mechanism such as the Norwegian "Traffic Light" method to identify the sharability of information and use this to identify from the earliest point in production information assets that can be made available as PSI. This method also allows a clearer identification of information assets that can be shared within the public sector and in this way it can improve inter-agency information sharing.
Frequently the public sector has already published information on public websites but this has not been identified and catalogued as PSI. Website scraping and other machine methods can make the job of organising this information much more tractable. Once information has been made available and accessible as PSI its use can be promoted and developed by routing it through the various professional channels such as journalists and data processing intermediaries ("infomediaries"). Other forms of direct consultation with the professional and commercial sectors as well as with citizens can help identify and promote PSI that has potential for use and re-use. Citizen engagement in the form of challenges and competitions is also beneficial as a route to provide citizens with the skills for using and manipulating PSI and as a way of stimulating innovation in PSI re-use.
Best Practice identification
Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice
Information needs to be discovered in order to be used. Once it has been discovered it needs to be explored and exploited in order to give the returns on investment in the areas of transparency, efficiency and economic activity that are desirable outcomes from the PSI Directive.
Links to the PSI Directive
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
A core requirement of the PSI Directive is that information which is published gives a return on investment in the areas of transparency, efficiency and economic activity
What do you need for this Best Practice?
- Ability to publish information in open formats
- connection with citizens, professionals and other business and third-sector organisations which have scope to benefit from PSI