The situation of open data in Flanders

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Open Data in Flanders
Miel Vander Sande
Pieter Colpaert

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Open Data: different levels
Europe
Belgium
Flanders
top down bottom up
Local gov

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Open Data: EU level
http://epsiplatform.eu
Freedom of speech
↓ PSI directive
freedom of information
→

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Open Data: National level
→

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Open Data: national → EU

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Open Data: national level
→

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Open Data in Belgium, fedict
→
105 datasets
~ 3% really open data

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Data in Belgium, PSI portal
→
PSI.belgium.be
0% open data

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Open Data in Belgium → EU
?

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Open Data in Belgium
→
2008 - 2010
hello.iRail.be

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Open Data in Flanders
http://epsiplatform.eu
PSI directive
decreet openbaarheid van bestuur (2004) → transparency
decreet hergebruik van overheidsinformatie (2007) → reuse
2013 (?)
open data = standard →
closed data needs a good reason

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Open Data Portal in Flanders
Reuses data.gov.be
Now: not satisfied → want to have their own CKAN instance

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Open Data on a local level opendata.brussel.be
data.gent.be
opendata.antwerpen.be
data.gent.be
→

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Local → Flanders/Belgium
?

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Open Data initiatives & co-creation
3e editie Q1 2013
1e editie 8 december
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Apps For Flanders
Winners reuse VDAB datasets

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Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium
= local chapter OKFN central
= umbrella organisation for Open Knowledge

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Digital agenda for Europe
Apps for Europe
= stimulating reuse cross-border
= invest in sustainability of the apps
= linking data

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Contact
Erik Mannens (erik.mannens@ugent.be)
Miel Vandersande (miel.vandersande@ugent.be)
Pieter Colpaert (pieter.colpaert@ugent.be)
Department of Electronics and Information Systems
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
Ghent University – iMinds
Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201
B-9050 Ledeberg-Ghent, Belgium
T: +32 9 33 14911
URL: http://multimedialab.elis.ugent.be

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Sources
Picture slide 4: http://5stardata.info/
Picture slide 5: creativecommons.org
Picture slide 7: Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and
Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/
Pictures slide 9: W3C (www.W3.org)
Pictures slide 10: http://www.briarpress.org & www.archipelproject.be
Pictures slide 12: thedatatank.org & eindexamensite.nl
Picture slide 31: blog Neelie Kroes
The Data Journalism Handbook (O’Reilly)
Datajournalism.stanford.edu
Washington Post – Innovations
BBC – Special Reports – Infographics & Data
The Guardian - Datablog