Boost OpenPublic in Europe + 28th of April deadline to apply for FP7-ICT-2011-SME-DCL

@JBI it would be great to participate... but I think this needs a long preparation time - or it would take at least a week someone to dig into this and work only on the documents.

Somehow the attachment link does not work for me.

I want to build these task forces and see how we can go on with OpenPublic and the different countries.

@linclark If you know some of the people that released the CKAN module you could ask them if they are willing to publish the module as EUPL?

Thats what the licence is for...and its compatible with GPL v2.

Thanks,
Ivo

Imagine apps/module that would fit into “ building pools of Data” for example an app to link each instance of OpenPublic to a directory of Opendata set realeased thanks OpenPUblic or an apps to link this dataset to an existing pool of Data like http://lod2.eu and http://latc-project.eu
We may list license problem that could be dealt with after the 28TH

I have a Skype meeting scheduled with Lin.
21/4 14:00 Greenwich, 15:00 European Time.

http://wbc-inco.net/call/108074.html 28/04/2011 17:00

Short introduction to the programme / what is it about? How may WBC participate?:

SMEs have ideas that sometimes cannot be implemented because they depend on the availability of data resources or specialised tools that are too expensive to obtain and maintain. In some areas, data pooling, sharing and reuse are further complicated by Europe's many languages. Actions under this objective aim to make it easier for innovative players, especially SMEs, to exploit and contribute to large digital resource pools. User-centred experimentation will be supported as well, with the aim of demonstrating the integration of data-intensive technologies within innovative solutions and processes.

Target outcomes

a) Bootstrapping a data economy: the target is to lower the barrier to entry in providing advanced services over linked digital resources, including both data analytics and reuse of creative content. Projects shall develop (or reuse and recombine where appropriate) practical and automated tools for the finding, matching, screening, validation, conversion, pooling, editing of data and content. The main objectives are: - To maximise reuse of digital content resources by making them easy to find, evaluate and integrate. - To foster reuse of digital content resources by providing guarantees and fair incentives for their creators and maintainers. This includes the creation of data exchanges or commons whose quality (breadth, timeliness, temporal qualification, ..) and value increases with the number of users and the feedback and validation they contribute. It also includes mechanisms for aggregating demand, thus stimulating the creation of additional resources and services. - To develop robust and highly usable new services demanded by citizens and businesses (especially SMEs) and create value by correlating independently produced datasets or extracting valuable information not foreseen by the original data producer. Usability is of paramount importance, particularly when the science underlying such services (statistics, machine learning, data mining, ..) is non-trivial.

Consortia shall consist of a limited number of innovative, fast-moving actors, in particular SMEs, able to identify and address real market needs or opportunities and with a clear stake in the exploitation of results.

b) Community building and best practices: Produce rigorous studies on the actual or projected economic impact of digital resources pooling as a function of well defined parameters such as the size of resources, user populations, socio-economic sectors, and software stacks adopted. Use the results of such studies to set up data exchange facilities, disseminate best practices and increase awareness of short term existing opportunities. Develop educational curricula designed to train data analysis professionals, expert in the maintenance and exploitation of data commons.

c) Sharing language resources: Projects are expected to make a fresh use of digital pools of language data, metadata and tools to develop advanced technologies and services. They shall address multiple EU languages22 and where relevant the languages of major EU trade partners. The main objectives and outcomes are: - To make more effective the acquisition of language resources exploiting automated and/or collaborative means; in many cases existing resources will need to be cleaned and documented, upgraded to widely-accepted technical or linguistic standards, linked across sources or aligned across languages, etc., before they can be used and shared. - To contribute to an open exchange place based upon the concerted pooling of resources having a significant potential for reuse. This electronic trading place must offer clear incentives and simple and yet robust mechanisms for both providers and users to contribute, maintain, share and exploit resources while ensuring that intellectual property rights and agreed access/reuse conditions are respected. - To show the concrete impact of using, combining or repurposing the above resources in a given use context, in terms of improved functionality, maintainability, scalability and portability of new systems and technologies.

Consortia shall include players from the demand and supply sides, in particular SMEs, who have a clear stake in the exploitation of results. All projects shall encompass the "sharing" element. 22 Emphasis is placed on the EU official working languages and on the official languages of the other countries participating in the Framework Programme.

d) Building consensus and common services: Commercial and research organisations must be brought together to define how the intended exchange place can be populated and operated, and evolve over time. Actions under this heading must help establish mechanisms, forums and support services to (i) coordinate efforts, reach consensus, mobilise the community at large, and (ii) set up and manage the planned electronic trading facilities.

Expected impact

• Improved European competitive position in a multilingual digital market through the provision of better services to citizens and businesses.

• Novel forms of partnership between new programme entrants and established players, reduced development costs and shorter time-to-market, thus stimulating innovation and expanding markets.

• Result-driven knowledge transfer between research centres (and their spin-offs) and progressive technology providers (especially SMEs), data brokers/aggregators and content providers.