data days 2014 open data in vlaanderen 1
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Noël Van Herreweghe
OPEN DATA IN FLANDERS
17 Feb 2014
Open Data in Flanders – the road behind us
Minister BourgeoisRound Table
2010
OPEN DATA
Open Data in Flanders – the road behind us
2011
1. Open Data is the norm at the Flemish government2. Re-use of this data is permitted, also for commercial purposes3. Open Data makes use of open standards4. Open data from authentic data sources5. Open data using an integrative approach6. VO business data in a central repository
Open Data in Flanders – the long walk to being “open”
2012 - 2013
2012 2013
Noël Van Herreweghe
Vlaamse Overheid
14-11-2012
VLAAMS OPEN DATA ACTIEPLAN
2012
2013
www.opendataforum.info/
www.vlaanderen.be/opendata
VLAAMS OPEN DATA PLATFORM
The Flemish Open Data Platform
Dataset Register
URI Strategy
Etc..
PSI Directive - 2003
PSI Directive - 2013
The promised land
A bright and sunny future?
PLANS
• Too expensive• There’s no business case• There’s no commercial value• It’s private• It’s secret• It’s not ours, and we don’t know who’s data it is• No idea what the quality of the data is• We don’t know where to find it• It’s not our job• It isn’t in the right format• I am not authorised • People are going to misuse it• Image damage for the minister• We not ready for this• Image loss for Government• The data file is too big• Not enough bandwidth• This is a first step • We can’t find it, we have no access• It is out of date / too old• We have it on paper• We don’t know if it’s legal• Management says no• We never did this before• Who is going to use this anyway
• No value in it• No time / no resources• We will open up (but adapt 90%)• It’s incorrect• Commercially sensitive• It is dangerous when linked• People are going to make the wrong conclusions• This is going to start a wrong discussion• We can’t say whether we have it or we don’t• We know the data is wrong, and people will tell us where it is wrong, then we'd waste
resources inputting the corrections people send us• Our IT suppliers will charge us a fortune to do an ad hoc data extract• Our website cannot hold files this large• it's not ours and we don't have authorisation from the data owner• We've already published the data (but it's unfindable/unusable)• People may download and cache the data and it will be out of date when they reuse it• We don't collect it regularly• Too many people will want to download it, which will cause our servers to fail• People would get upset• It’s very sensitive information• We are not ready for this• Tell us who is going to use it and we will make it open• Etc..
Our future plans can be summerised as such:
1. We are going to keep working on quality. The quality of everything we do, the quality of the datasets, the quality of our platform, and so on and so forth..
2. The service we offer to our partners and customers, be it internal organisations at the Flemish, be it citizins, businesses or otherwise..
3. Reliability. People need to be able to rely on us, rely on the availability of the datasets, a single point of contact, constant attention to detail.
The promised land
A bright and sunny future?
CHALLENGES
Some of our challenges:
1.The quality of our datasets2.Licensing: proper usage of licensing of Public data is
essential. The more Open Data activities continue, the clearer this rule becomes. What distinguishes Open Data from "mere" transparency is reuse
3.Privacy issues4.Continued co-operation amongst open data actors and
open data champions instead of competing against each other
5.Hoping that organizations working with open data or facilitating open data efforts are going to work with us instead of agains us
6.Keeping entities from building their own applications7.Finding the necessary budget under present economical
conditions
3 oktober 2014
focus
The user community
Open Access
Open Data & Mobility
