The European Commission promotes open data policies and activities in three key ways: as a policy maker through directives like the Public Sector Information Directive, as a data collector through agencies like Eurostat, and as a funding agency for research and innovation. The Commission aims to review the PSI Directive and launch a pilot European open data portal called data.gov.eu to make Commission and member state data more openly available and reusable.

1. re:publica XI 13 April 2011, Berlin Open Data EU Policies and Activities Carl-Christian Buhr European Commission (All expressed views are those of the speaker.) http://slidesha.re/euopendata

3. Neelie Kroes Maroš Šefčovič Digital Agenda e-Commission , ISA The College of Commissioners Michel Barnier IPR http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/ Máire Geoghegan-Quinn R&I , ERA

4. http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU , @ NeelieKroesEU http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda 101 Actions DAE

5. Neelie on Open Data “ I believe governments should embrace open data .” , 05/04/2011 “ My ideal of eGovernment puts the citizen at the centre always […] One example is the re-use of public sector information . We know its potential but still our organisations are dragging their feet. I say yes to open data! ”, 08/10/2010 http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU , @ NeelieKroesEU

8. Public Consultation A full report (67 p.) on the results is available . Respondents PSI Potential Fully Reached?

9. PSI Holders 60% against amendments 50% for scope extension Support guidance Public Consultation Substantive amendements? Y 80% N 9% Soft law? Y 50% N 28% Technical adjustments? Y 77% N 5% Amendments? Accessible = Reusable?

10. Legislators need to agree http://europarl.europa.eu/ http://consilium.europa.eu/ European Parliament Council of the European Union

11. Data Collector 2006 Decision on re-use of Commission Information to be adapted in line with PSI Directive Covered Translation memories Audio-visual material Excluded Material with third-party IPR Research results of the EC’s Joint Research Centre Special cases (e.g. in Competition investigations ) link link link

12. Towards a data.gov.eu WP 2011 , p. 46 & prior notice on TED (tender by 06/11): „ 1)[...] to define, to design, to test and to launch a pilot data.gov.eu infrastructure that would: a) make available the data resources created by the European Commission, European agencies and the other institutions; and b) become the Web portal to establish together with the Member States an integrated and shared EU-wide governmental data information system ; 2) provide a first prototype of the data.gov.eu infrastructure (main objective of the procurement); and 3) define an upscaling strategy in view of it becoming the recognised and widely used European access point to government information. “ 3 November 2010: Pan-European data portal workshop link

13. Research Funding ICT Challenge 4 : Digital Libraries and Content Semantic Web, Linked Data etc. Next call summer 2011, EUR 50m Creating Knowledge from Interlinked Data link link link Linked Open Data Around-The-Clock

14. Innovation Union (COM(2010)546, 06.10.2010) “ The Commission will promote open access ... It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for projects funded by the EU research Framework Programmes […]”. Open Access http://www.openaire.eu link

15. Scientific data link ” Our Vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. [...] the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”.

16. Related Activities http://europeana.eu http://europeanalabs.eu/ DAE 79 : Sustainable Europeana [2012] DAE 85 : Review Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information [2011] link