Re: Local Standarization Groups

Hi Bart, 

I can tell from perspective of Austria - here we are working (just started) on an Austrian meta data recommendation for open data (not linked data yet) at the moment 
and I bring in the results of the GLD group (as invited expert) there - this Austrian group (consisting of national gov and 4 cities & Statistic Austria at the moment) 
is highly interested in international standards (beside others cause of international interoperability).....so the work of the GLD will directly influence the national Austrian working group ..... 

Can you please provide a URL to the mentioned ICTU 'Government Web Metadata Standard' - I am really interested in this - many thanks in advance! 

Have a good day - regards - martin 

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Bart van Leeuwen" <Bart_van_Leeuwen@netage.nl> 
To: "W3C GLD WG" <public-gld-wg@w3.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 7 September, 2011 3:07:52 PM 
Subject: Local Standarization Groups 

Hi All, 

I started quiet a discussion with my remarks about local available ontology's. 

Let me try to outline in a e-mail what I was trying to point out. 

In the charter of the group http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/charter we state that the purpose of this group is to provide standards and best practices to help governments with publishing linked data. 
>From my point of view this is not only to get governments started with publishing linked data, but also do it in a manner where the resulting linked data actually follows some standards so that interoperability is possible. 

When I started my work for FD Amsterdam I was contacted by someone from ICTU. 
ICTU is a Dutch government organization which is responsible for supplying and creating standards to make government work more efficient. 
They created a 'Government Web Metadata Standard' largely based on DCMI terms, and from what I could see from it, this would be pretty useful as input for GLD-WG discussions as well. 
My first logical reaction was to encourage them to join the GLD-WG, and to my surprise / disappointment the organization itself didn't show that much interest in W3C. 
As a European country Dutch governments and aligned organizations tend to be more interested in European based standards then international / internet ones. 

What I'm afraid of what will happen now is that, although we might come up with a great set of deliverables for Government Linked Data, on the European side governments might not be interested at all. 
This is not meant as a discouragement of what we do, but more a starting point for a discussion on how to involve Europe based governments, or get involved as GLD-WG in the European process. 

Since Open Data is a pretty hot topic in the EU right now, it might be the right time to investigate where / who we should talk to to get our work noticed. 

With Kind Regards/Met Vriendelijke Groet 
Bart van Leeuwen 

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