1. The EU Open Data Portal Agnieszka Zając Publications Office of the European Union
ESTAT - Dissemination Working Group meeting
15-16 November 2016, Luxembourg

2. Open data: what is it? What is the benefit?
Open data is data that can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness.
Exceptions: personal data protection and third-party copyright
Two elements of openness:
Legal openness (open licence)
Technical openness (machine readable data and available in bulk)
The benefit
Legal openness: you must be allowed to get the data legally, to build on it, and to share it. Legal openness is usually provided by applying an appropriate (open) license which allows for free access to and reuse of the data
Technical openness: there should be no technical barriers to using that data. For example, providing data as printouts on paper (or as tables in PDF documents) makes the information extremely difficult to work with. So the Open Definition has various requirements for “technical openness,” such as requiring that data be machine readable and available in bulk.
The Open Data study of Konrad Adenauer Foundation shows that open administrative data in Germany can generate an economic added value of 43.1 billion Eur. per year and create 20,000 jobs. Thus it provides a strong argument to accelerate the systematic provision of open data.
Reuse examples

3. EU Open Data Policy
2003
2011
2013
2014
2015
Directive
2003/98/EC
Commission Decision
2011/833/EU
Directive
2013/37/EU
Commission notice
Guidelines on PSI reuse
2014/C240/01
Launch of
European
Data Portal
On the re-use of Public Sector Information
On the re-use of Commission documents
Amending Directive 2003/98/EC
July 2014
November 2015
Conclusions of the European Council
24-25 October 2013
Communication on
the data-driven
economy
Digital Single Market strategy
for Europe 2015
Article 5 'The Commission shall set up a data portal as a single point of access to its structured data so as to facilitate linking and reuse for commercial and non- commercial purposes. (…) '. G8
Open Data Charter
(plus its support for open public data)
Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (amended by Directive 2013/37/EU) provides a common legislative framework for making public sector information available for re-use.
Legislation and case law are good examples for such public sector information, as they are essential information for a working democracy.
Directive 2003/98/EC and its revision 2013/37/EU on the re-use of public sector information (transposition in Member States almost complete):
creation of a genuine right to re-use public information
new default charging rule based on the marginal cost
June 2013: G8 Open Data Charter
The charter recognised the central role open data can play in improving governance and in stimulating growth through innovation in data driven products and services.
It endorses the principle of "open by default", which establishes that all government data should be published openly.
The other principles are talking about quality and quantity of data and metadata, that data should be released as early as possible and well described. It denotes importance of user feedback to improve quality.
July 2014: European Commission communication 'Towards a thriving data-driven economy'
It was a response to European Council conclusions from October 2013.
This communication outlines the big data market as a great opportunity to create new jobs and growth.
The operational conclusions were to set up public private-partnership (PPP), in particular in implementation of Horizon 2020 research programme and to support small and medium-size enterprises in the new commercial opportunities for explointing big data.
May 2015: Digital Single Market strategy for Europe
The strategy includes the free flow of data by eliminating existing barriers and restrictions. The DSM strategy will encourage access to public data to help drive innovation.
The completion of a digital single market is one of the 10 political priorities of the current Commission.
European Council Conclusions, October 2013
'Open data is an untapped resource with a huge potential for building stronger, more interconnected societies that better meet the needs of the citizens and allow innovation and prosperity to flourish.
Interoperability and the re-use of public sector information shall be promoted actively.'
US Executive Order
Government information open and machine readable by default

4. EU Open data portal roles and objectives
Maintenance of the portal
Development of new features
EU ODP platform
Supporting EU institutions in publishing metadata and opening data
Publishing more data
Applications tab with reuse examples
"Share your app"
Promote reuse
DCAT – AP (plus extensions: geo, stat)
Linked Open Data
Interoperability
Standards
"Suggest dataset"
twitter.com/EC_opendata
Events, hackathons
User engagement
Multilingualism
Data visualisation
Other tasks
To provide single point of access to EU institutions open data
To facilitate and promote reuse of open data
To facilitate interoperability and linking standards and the portal’s functionalities
To help to overcome technical barriers (the promotion of open formats)
To help to overcome legal barriers one set of terms
To stimulate improved data management across EU institutions
To engage with the user community

6. EU Open data portal components
Data discovery:
Simple search
Browse by category
API, Sparql enpoint
Open source technology
Standards

7. Data on environment from various EU institutions in one place
The publishing process of statistics from Eurostat on EU ODP
Automatic metadata submission
in RDF
Data on environment from various EU institutions in one place

8. EU Open Data Portal vs European Data Portal
Datasets of national public institutions (regions, ministries, etc..)
Datasets of the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies (Parliament, Commission, ESTAT, JRC, Council, EEA..)
Single point of access to open data of EU institutions
Transparency and user requests are key driver for new portal services
EU Open Data Portal feeds the European Data Portal on behalf of EU bodies
Single point of access for EU Open Data (62 data providers, 8982 datasets)
Harmonised way to describe metadata
Multiple search
- Human search interface (Catalogue, SPARQL endpoint)
- Machine-to-machine search (API, SPARQL endpoint)
One 'terms of use'
(implementing EU reuse policy)
Multilingual
Showcase for applications
Engagement with data consumers
(Surveys, Social media,
Give feedback, Suggest datasets,
Share apps based on EU data)

9. Top data domains consulted by the EU28+ countries on European Data Portal
Statistics is also one of the high value datasets domain listed by G8 Open Data Charter

10. Increased discoverability of statistics through data portal
multilingual features
link open data metadata
Increased data discoverability

11. The publishing process of statistics on data portals
NSI
Data and metadata
NSI
NSI
NSI
NSI
metadata
data.gov.uk
Data.gouv.fr
Gov.data.de
Data.europa.eu/euodp
Metadata
harvesting
Metadata
harvesting
Data.europa.eu/europeandataportal

12. The Statistical extension of DCAT AP – a way to facilitate metadata publishing on data portals
A specification based on the Data Catalogue vocabulary (DCAT) for describing public sector datasets in Europe
The StatDCAT-AP aims to deliver metadata specifications and tools that enhance interoperability between descriptions of statistical data sets within the statistical domain and between statistical data and open data portals.
ISA 2 – Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations
Runs from 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2020
ISA provides support for implementation of StatDCAT
To participate in the pilot you can contact:
In Eurostat the work was chaired by Marco Pellegrino.

13. EU ODP on-going projects and future goals
Increase number of datasets and data providers
Further automatization of metadata ingestion
Data visualisation, Catalogue of reusable visualisation tools
Strong interaction with data community through communication and innovative projects (e.g. Budget as LOD)
Enhance "open data culture" among the EU institutions; better data management; respect of metadata standards
Achieve multilingualism - Automatized translation of metadata

14. Thank you for your attention
To find out more check :
'EU open data. The basics for data providers'
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