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Guide pratique de l’ouverture des donné…

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Guide pratique de l’ouverture des données publiques territoriales :

“L’ouverture des données publiques n’est pas une option pour les acteurs publics : elle est rendue obligatoire par des directives européennes et une législation française qui en a fait un droit opposable.

Mais cette ouverture constitue également, et surtout, une chance. En s’y engageant, les acteurs publics ont l’occasion de gagner en efficacité, de contribuer au développement économique et à l’amélioration de nombreux services aux habitants comme aux entreprises, de faire émerger des connaissances inédites sur un territoire, et enfin de partager les éléments de la décision publique avec une société civile qui le demande.

Il s’agit donc d’une véritable opportunité pour les territoires, qui plus est moins coûteuse et moins complexe qu’il n’y parait de prime abord. Chaque territoire la saisira à sa manière, en expérimentant et généralisant. Malgré tout, de nombreux éléments doivent être pris en compte : juridiques, techniques, économiques, organisationnels. Plusieurs territoires en Europe, et en France, montrent la voie : leur expérience a vocation à servir aux autres.

Ce Guide pratique s’inscrit dans la démarche d’accompagnement des territoires initiée par la FING autour de la Réutilisation des données publiques. Ce guide se donne pour objectifs d’apporter des éclairages et d’inviter les acteurs publics à agir. Des moyens, des outils sont déjà à portée de main, des initiatives existantes, en France comme à l’étranger, constituent déjà des bonnes pratiques, ou à tout le moins des sources d’enseignement.”

URL : http://www.reseaufing.org/pg/blog/openid_82/read/52200/guide-pratique-de-louverture-des-donnes-publiques-territoriales

Friends or Foes? Creative Commons, Freed…

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Friends or Foes? Creative Commons, Freedom of Information Law and the EU Framework for Re-Use of Public Sector Information :

“Public authorities keep vast amounts of information. Freedom of information (‘FOIA’) laws give the public rights of access to much public sector information. The spread of FOIAs across the globe testifies to their importance as instruments for enhancing democratic accountability. But access to public sector information not only serves political purposes. It is also thought to have economic benefits, enabling the development of new information products and services. This is the policy objective behind the EU Directive 2003/98 on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI Directive).

Despite popular belief to the contrary, much public sector information is subject to intellectual property rights. Both access to public sector information for democratic purposes and for economic purposes have implications for how intellectual property rights in information produced by governments are exercised. Rather curiously perhaps, FOIA’s are generally silent on the issue. Nor does the PSI Directive prescribe how public sector bodies should exercise any exlcusive rights in information. This paper explores the role of copyright policy in the light of the objectives and principles of both freedom of information law and the regulatory framework for re-use of public sector information. More specifically, it queries whether open content licenses like Creative Commons are indeed the attractive instrument they appear to be for public sector bodies that seek to enhance transparent access to their information, be it for purposes of democratic accountability or re-use for economic or other uses.”

URL : http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1722189

The Dataverse Network®: An Open-Source A…

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The Dataverse Network®: An Open-Source Application for Sharing, Discovering and Preserving Data :

“The Dataverse Network is an open-source application for publishing, referencing, extracting and analyzing research data. The main goal of the Dataverse Network is to solve the problems of data sharing through building technologies that enable institutions to reduce the burden for researchers and data publishers, and incentivize them to share their data. By installing Dataverse Network software, an institution is able to host multiple individual virtual archives, called “dataverses” for scholars, research groups, or journals, providing a data publication framework that supports author recognition, persistent citation, data discovery and preservation. Dataverses require no hardware or software costs, nor maintenance or backups by the data owner, but still enable all web visibility and credit to devolve to the data owner.”

URL : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january11/crosas/01crosas.html

Quality of Research Data, an Operational Approach

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This article reports on a study, commissioned by SURFfoundation, investigating the operational aspects of the concept of quality for the various phases in the life cycle of research data: production, management, and use/re-use.

Potential recommendations for quality improvement were derived from interviews and a study of the literature. These recommendations were tested via a national academic survey of three disciplinary domains as designated by the European Science Foundation: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Life Sciences.

The “popularity” of each recommendation was determined by comparing its perceived importance against the objections to it. On this basis, it was possible to draw up generic and discipline-specific recommendations for both the dos and the don’ts.”

URL : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january11/waaijers/01waaijers.html

Local Transparency – A Practitioners Gui…

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Local Transparency – A Practitioners Guide to Publishing New Contracts and Tenders Data

“This guide offers practical help to meet both immediate targets, and to adopt approaches that will add most value for local people and public services over the longer term. It therefore suggests how to meet the requirements for data publication by January 2011, but also offers help in opening up other public data. It describes:
• what data to publish
• how to publish this data online in an open format
• what to consider in publishing; including data protection and licensing
• how to make enable more constructive use of the data as Linked Data.”

URL : http://lgnewcontracts.readandcomment.com/files/2010/12/101122-New-Contracts-Data-Practitioners-Guide-V7.pdf

Technical workshop on the goals and requirements for a pan-European data portal

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Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) is a cost framework that can be used to develop and apply local cost models for research data management and long-term preservation. The exact application may depend on the purpose of the costing, which might include:

  • identifying current costs;
  • identifying former or future costs;
  • comparing costs across different collections and institutions which have used different variables;
  • developing a charging policy or appropriate archiving costs to be charged to projects;
  • focussing in more selectively on particular activities and modelling the effect of changes to specific processes.

The major outputs from KRDS have been the project final reports (KRDS 2008 and KRDS 2010) and the supplementary materials to the KRDS2 final report available from the KRDS2 project website (http://www.beagrie.com/jisc.php). The KRDS final reports have been extremely well received by the community. However the project outcomes such as case studies and guidance are now split over two long reports, appendices and supplementary material.

The KRDS User Guide has been developed to support easier assimilation of the combined work of the KRDS1 and KRDS2 projects by those wishing to implement the tools or key findings.

The User Guide is an edited selection and synthesis of the KRDS reports combined with newly commissioned text and illustrations. It provides a succinct summary of key implementation guidance and tools, links to prepared extracts such as case studies from the reports, and additional guidance on its application.

URL : http://www.beagrie.com/KeepingResearchDataSafe_UserGuide_v1_Dec2010.pdf

The Historical and Legal Underpinnings o…

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The Historical and Legal Underpinnings of Access to Public Documents :

“Identifying and limiting access to public documents in a world of instant transmission has created new problems for government and citizens alike. This article reviews
the historical uses and value of public documents in order to aid those responsible for describing which government documents can be confidently migrated to digital form.”

URL : http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v102n04/2010-35.pdf