Open Data best practices: HOMER, Italy and Regione Piemonte MALTA HOMER OPEN DATA SEMINAR 24 th May 2013 Luca Guerretta HOMER Project Manager Regione Piemonte
What ABOUT? HOMER and OD in the MED area HOMER, the Origin Main Inspiration for the HOMER Drafting The MED programme and the Strategic call The Mediterranean situation and HOMER Relevance for MED HOMER Contribution and expected IMPACT OD in Italy? Open Data in Italy: State of the Art at national level Open Data in Italy: State of the Art at regional level OD in Piemonte Region? Piemonte Open Data Portal examples of data re-use
HOMER, the Origin (1/3) HOMER idea has been defined in 2011. Open data policies were a frontier policy for the regions. At that time: Terminology obscured No clear condivision of concepts Difficulties in defining a suitable network Governments were not recognising the benefits of making their data open and reusable
HOMER, the Origin (2/3) State of the Art at that Time (in MED area) Isolated and fragmented initiatives at national or regional level in Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Slovenia were under development Citizens were not fully aware about the potential of PSI re-use.
HOMER, the Origin (3/3): Starting Point
Main Inspiration for the HOMER Drafting First Digital Agenda Assembly (Brussels, June 2011) EC declared its intention to launch, from 2014 onwards, a pan-european Open Data infrastructure gradually extending to all public administration in Europe; EU witnessed the spreading of several OD initiatives, mostly in Northern Europe; A number of administrations were sufficiently mature to join the pan-european level (the most advanced ones were in UK and Sweden).
The MED programme and the Strategic call Compared to Northern Europe, the MED area faced an higher digital divide gap in terms of market opportunities, e-government performances and transparency, mainly due to cultural, political and legal barriers.. Programme Med as an opportunity: 4 th call, strategic project ICT Axis 2011 A clear added value: explore the cultural and social context of the Mediterranean and enrich and complement the economic view of OD!
The Mediterranean situation and HOMER Relevance EU is witnessing the spreading of several OD initiatives, mostly in Northern Europe, but MED? Mediterranean is less advanced and Open Data Good Practices are fragmented HOMER purpose to: stimulate Open Data policies in Med area, through the adoption of tailored ICT/legal and political standards towards the MED cultural and economic framework
HOMER Contribution and expected IMPACT Harmonise both from a legal point of view and technical aspects the OD portals in MED; Federation effect: ease of finding data for final users (citizens or business not only for geek); Stimulate the re-use federated data: more re-use opportunity founded on similar shared data; Discovering new opportunities to develop useful applications for citizens and government with data and linked data and enhance economic growth and creation of job opportunities; Create awareness about Open Data policy: as example, initiate harmonising the Montenegrin legislation and licencing with EU policies on PSI Directive;
Open Data in Italy: State of the Art at national level (1/4) Normative level: D.LGS 36/06 (modified by law 96/2010) to transpose EU Directive 89/03 OD portal at national level: dati.gov.it launched in November 2011 by the Minister for the Public Administration and Innovation Office in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers Licence: Italian Open Data Licence (IODL 2.0) Data Catalogue: data from different administrations
Open Data in Italy: State of the Art at national level (2/4) Data Catalogue: 207 dataset related to 32 Administrations; Informative sections; Upload section: to share open data; App Section: catalogue of apps realized by public administrations;
Open Data in Italy: State of the Art at national level (3/4) Ministry of Education archivio.pubblica.istruzione.it National Statistic Institute www.demo.istat.it
Open Data in Italy: State of the Art at national level (4/4) Geological Survey geoportal - ISPRA sgi.isprambiente.it/geoportal Inspire directive
Open Data in Italy: State of the Art at Regional level (1/4) Regulation: few and fragmented regional act or resolutions Licences: different standard adopted Data: many data potentially available (especially geo data) but often available as services and not as raw data and typically not accessible from a dedicated open data portal
State of the Art at Regional level (2/4) - Laws LR Regional law DGR - resolution of the regional council In Prog. resolution or law in progress
State of the Art at Regional level (3/4) - Open Data portal Piemonte - 2010 Emilia Romagna - 2011 Veneto 2011 Lombardia - 2012
State of the Art at Regional level (4/4) - Licences Creative Commons typically adopted are Creative Commons zero (CC0) or by attribution (CCby) Italian Open Data Licence typically adopted. IODL 2
Piemonte Region Open Data Portal
Piemonte Region To-do-List: how to reach here Legal Point of view: 1. Regional Law on Open Data 2. Guidelines on the re-use of OD 3. Adoption/choose of a license model; Organizational point of view: 1. Creation of a work team (policy makers, tech experts, legal experts) 2. Dissemination of the initiative among local stakeholders and PA Technological point of view: 1. Creation of metadata catalogues; 2. Creation of a platform for the uploading of data; 3. Launching of a OD portal for public access and re-use;
Fundamental principle: The data belongs to the community Cornerstones of the reusability of data: Spread without restriction and in electronic formats and open standards Use of legal standards - Creative Common Licenses Gratuity of re-usability and re-distributable data
Some legal steps: DGR - resolution of the regional council in 2009 and 2010 Followed by a: Regional Law in 23/12/2011 first case of Regional Law on OD in Italy it includes guidelines related to the utilisation and diffusion of PA data through internet
dati.piemonte.it: WHO interact with the portal Web users look and consult the data exposed updates about Open Data (HOMER) rate and send messages and comments about data exposed Public Administration exposed the data with associated license receive feedbacks from users and send communications
Available data on dati.piemonte.it 357 Dataset: 133 alphanumeric data; 66 geographic data; 158 data sets in working-in-progress ; Municipalities involved: 14 municipalities exposing; 71 municipalities working-in-progress ; Others stakeholders (chamber of commerce): 35 dataset
Functions of dati.piemonte.it (1/2) Research: full-text key words Advanced Contents Legal aspects News Real cases of re-use of data (with links!)
Functions of dati.piemonte.it (2/2) Data dowload Metadati & Download Preview Monitoring Statistics on dati quality and re-use Statistics on access Networking Comments, ratings and feed RSS
Future Developments of dati.piemonte.it (1/2) Federated Research Engine (HOMER) Unique federated index among OD portals sharing the same platform; Research on a federated engine; External research on other paltforms (CKAN) not integrated on the same federated index;
Future Developments of dati.piemonte.it (2/2) My Open Data: Portal community tracking of last research; feedback on datasets update; Newsletter;
dati.piemonte.it: examples of data re-use (1/3) The graph of the viability of the Piemonte Region has been included in the "Alps and the Northern Apennines" of 3D TEN Community: a software that allows to plan and indentify your own path on a 3D map model.
dati.piemonte.it: examples of data re-use (2/3) Analysis of Tourist Flow in Piemonte Region: example of re-use of data from this portal to realise a project of Business Intelligence that using the data exposed, analyse and forecast the tourist flow in Piemonte.
dati.piemonte.it: examples of data re-use (3/3) "Where to sleep in Turin : Example of re-use of raw data published by dati.piemonte.it and refine google, it allows you to search for accommodations in the province of Turin through the use of different evaluative filters (num of bath VS Price or VS distance to specific place etc).
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