Re: The ICT 2010 proposal text

Forwarding this to the new list for archival

Ivan


On Jun 10, 2010, at 12:28 , Sören Auer wrote:

> On 10.06.2010 11:53, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> I realize that I do not have a copy of the proposal we sent it,
>> nor do I have a link. Can you send it to me? Thanks
> 
> Here again for all of you the submitted proposal text:
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> Title
>    Governmental Linked Data
> Description
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>    The publishing of data produced by governments is a crucial step towards more openness, transparency and citizen involvement. Examples moving in that direction include the US' data.gov portal or the UK’s data.gov.uk initiative. However, publishing data alone is not enough: the data should adhere to open standards, be tightly interrelated with other information and facilitate reuse. The semantic web activity has recently gained momentum with the widespread publishing and interlinking of data on the emerging Data Web. With a variety of corresponding methodologies, tools and techniques available, the Linked Data paradigm can serve as a powerful enabler for integrating data published by local, regional, national and European public administrations. To connect and align different initiatives throughout Europe, this networking session will bring government representatives, IT specialists, researchers and representatives from related non-governmental organizations together.
> More material for the Selection Panel
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>    This networking session is proposed by a community of people and organizations including IT professionals, scientists, and government representatives. The group is currently organized under the auspices of the Open Knowledge Foundation as Working Group on EU Open Data (http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/euopendata). It includes particularly practitioners from IT companies, researchers from the technology and social sciences fields, representatives working for the European Commission, from standardization organizations (such as the World Wide Web consortium) as well as representatives from non-governmental citizen organizations (such as e.g. Regards Citoyens from France, Open Data Network Germany or Folket Sting from Denmark).
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>    Objectives of the networking session are:
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>    To provide a forum for establishing personal contacts and exchange of ideas for stakeholders with regard to publishing and linking governmental data
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>    Identify research, technological development and standardization objectives, which should be pursued in order to facilitate the uptake of Linked Data in the governmental domain
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>    Showcase first successful adoptions and use cases of Linked Governmental Data
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>    Thematically the network session is relevant for a number of pillars of the Framework Programme as well as the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme.
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>    The scope of the session is open, all kinds of stakeholders and organizations can be involved and even for ordinary citizens the networking session is highly relevant.
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>    Already now, we have a strong commitment of a large number (>50) of organizations and individuals interested to attend and contribute to the networking session. They are currently organized in OKFN’s Working Group on EU Open Data, which includes an active mailinglist and monthly conference calls. The group will also cater for sustainable continuation of the activities started and planned during the networking session.
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>    The networking session's goals have strong relationship to a number of EU co-funded projects, such OKKAM, KIWI, OntoWiki, WeKnowIt and we will make the necessary steps to involve them as much as that is possible.
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>    Also, the networking session will help to align a number of national initiatives and events targeting the publishing of governmental data.
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>    Ultimately, the publishing and interlinking of governmental data will make public administrations more transparent, help creating an unprecedented level of openness in government and thus strengthen the European democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in government.


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