OpenData Order
European Directive PSI (Public Sector Information)
The PSI Directive was adopted on 10 November 2016 by Brussels-Capital Region
parliament
See Belgian Monitor : http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/mopdf/2016/11/10_2.pdf#page=194
OpenData Licences
Ministerial decree must define a set of licenses :
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- Licence fee
08/03/2017 3
OpenData approach for public sector
08/03/2017 5
1. Make an inventoryof datasets
List all datasets, determine openess, …
2. Make datasets findable
Document datasets on http://OpenDataStore.Brussels
3. Publish datasets
Make data available in open formats
4. Promote Open Data
Communicate, inform, organize events, ... About
OpenData
Make an
inventory
Make
findable
Publish Promote
50 shades of no
1. Too expensive;
2. There’s no business case;
3. There’s no commercial value;
4. It’s private;
5. It’s secret;
6. It’s not ours, and we don’t know who’s data it is;
7. No idea what the quality of the data is;
8. We don’t know where to find it;
9. It’s not our job;
10. It isn’t in the right format;
11. I am not authorised;
12. Who is going to use this anyway;
13. People are going to misuse it;
14. Image damage for the minister;
15. We not ready for this;
16. Image loss for Government;
17. The data file is too big;
18. Not enough bandwidth;
19. This is a first step;
20. We can’t find it, we have no access;
21. It is out of date / too old;
22. We have it on paper;
23. We don’t know if it’s legal;
24. Management says no;
25. We never did this before;
26. No value in it
27. No time / no resources
28. We will open up (but adapt 90%)
29. It’s incorrect
30. Commercially sensitive
31. It is dangerous when linked
32. People are going to make the wrong conclusions
33. This is going to start a wrong discussion
34. We can’t say whether we have it or we don’t
35. We know the data is wrong, and people will tell us where
it is wrong, then we'd waste resources inputting the
corrections people send us
36. Our IT suppliers will charge us a fortune to do an ad hoc
data extract
37. Our website cannot hold files this large
38. It's not ours and we don't have authorisation from the
data owner
39. We've already published the data (but it's
unfindable/unusable)
40. People may download and cache the data and it will be
out of date when they reuse it
41. We don't collect it regularly
42. Too many people will want to download it, which will
cause our servers to fail
43. People would get upset
44. It’s very sensitive information
45. We are not ready for this
46. Tell us who is going to use it and we will make it open.
Editor's Notes
PSI directive has been adopted by the parliament on 10/11/2016
Licenses has been defined and must be transposed shortly on a decree
The portal will document all datasets from all administrations and municipalities from the brussels-capital region