Human Factors of XR: Using Human Factors to Design XR Systems
Building the PSI Community
1. EPSI PLATFORM
BUILDING THE PSI
COMMUNITY
MARTIN ALVAREZ (@ESPINR)
OPEN DATA ERASMUS MEETUP, NANTES (13-16 SEP 2014)
2. EPSI PLATFORM
European Public Sector Information Platform
Funded by the European Commission
Europe's One-Stop Shop on PSI Re-use
• News, happenings
• Best practices
• Engaging the community
3. OPEN DATA GROWS
Official Open Data Initiatives in Europe
http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/
7. SHARING GOOD (AND BAD) CASES
New products, visualizations, services, apps…
http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/#52.3724,4.8774,14
8. […] procurement data and procedures concentrated in only
one website, they established limitations of its search
capabilities and used "word distortion techniques".
We found about 10 tricks to hide the data:
• Cyrillic chars instead Latin chars looking like the same
• Cyrillic chars instead Latin chars for products with Latin
name, like "Hyundai" or "Microsoft"
• unreasonable use of "-" inside words –e.g., The ten-der
to bu-y mi-lk.
• large amount of mistakes –up to 10 mistakes per
sentence…
LEARNING FROM OTHERS
Lessons from the community
14. BUILDING A PSI COMMUNITY
SOME IDEAS
FOR THE ERASMUS
PROGRAMME
15. OPEN DATA
META-COMMUNITY
A community on top of the regional ones
Representatives from all MS (individuals)
Broad scope / creation of subgroups
• Transparency; Open Data; Reuse…
Centralized web space (mailing list, website, wiki?)
Periodic meetings
• Monthly teleconferences
• In person meetups ß Sponsored
16. OPEN DATA
META-COMMUNITY
Goals:
• Sharing knowledge (learning from others)
• Connect isolated communities
• Compilation of projects, tools, methodologies
• Transpose projects to other countries, regions
• Sponsor individuals to attend events abroad
• Measurable results (publications, implementations, …)