OpenDataRégion Bruxelles-Capitale

CIRB

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SmartCity - OpenData

OpenData

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OpenData Order

European Directive PSI (Public Sector Information)The PSI Directive was adopted on 10 November 2016 by Brussels-Capital Region parliamentSee Belgian Monitor : http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/mopdf/2016/11/10_2.pdf#page=194

OpenData LicencesMinisterial decree must define a set of licenses : -

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- Licence fee

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Brussels-Capital OpenData Portal

http://opendatastore.brussels

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OpenData approach for public sector

1. Make an inventory of datasets

List all datasets, determine openess, … 2. Make datasets findable

Document datasets on http://OpenDataStore.Brussels3. Publish datasets

Make data available in open formats4. Promote Open Data

Communicate, inform, organize events, ... About OpenData

Make an inventory

Make findable Publish Promote

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Linked Data

2016-2017 2018-…

2016 : Study Linked Data2017 : POC Linked Data

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 It is out of date / too old;22.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 resources28. We will open up (but adapt 90%)29. It’s incorrect30. Commercially sensitive31. It is dangerous when linked32. People are going to make the wrong conclusions33. This is going to start a wrong discussion34. We can’t say whether we have it or we don’t35. 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 large38. It's not ours and we don't have authorisation from the data owner39. 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 it41. We don't collect it regularly42. Too many people will want to download it, which will cause our

servers to fail43. People would get upset44. It’s very sensitive information45. We are not ready for this46. Tell us who is going to use it and we will make it open.