Preparatory Action

Partners

Broad objectives

• ‘Horizontal’ approach

• Build on Green Paper – further preparatory, identification and definition work

• Contribute to baseline for e-Content

programme of work

• Involve ten CEE associate states on equal footing with EU member states

• Prepare ground for the creation of a European PSI network of excellence (EPSINet)

Specific Objectives

• Definition - clarity • Typology - useful, usable • Access – availability, accessibility, gaps • Good practice - access and exploitation –

define, identify examples • Standards - document, define, describe

assess use of applicable standards (e.g. metadata and formats)

• Business models - define and differentiate • Future research agenda -

recommendations• The European PSI Network (EPSI) – establish framework for knowledge exchange

Structure of workWP Partner

responsibleDeliverable

1 PSI Survey INETI D1.1Definition, typology D1.2 Report: policies, innovation, good practice, gaps, barriers

2 Standards Map Essex D2.1 PSI standards map

3 EPSI EURA D3.1 Web site: discussion listD 3.2 Country Coordinator MoUsD 3.3 Report: best practice, business models

4 Regional and national factors

ISRDS D 4.1 Report: regional factors

5 Management/ self-assessment

Essex D 5.1 Reports specified by the Commission (e.g. Management, Semestrial, USA)

Key meetings

Event WP Date/status

Briefing and awareness raising

3 European Parliament, Brussels 19 June

Business models workshop

3 Frankfurt Book Fair11 October

Standards Workshop

2 UK or Denmark December

Five Regional workshops

4 Italy 22 OctDenmark 29 OctRomania 9 NovGermany 14 NovBrussels 29 Nov

Data gathering

• Stakeholder database c2000 names [10/01]• Survey recipients• Distribution list

• 60+ stakeholder interviews in 20+ countries

• USA mission and report

Country Co-ordinators

• Public agencies/ministries - 15• Associations/NGOs - 4• Private sector - 1• Academic/research - 5

• Still negotiating - Luxembourg, Switzerland

Country Co-ordinators - remaining tasks

• National assessments [regulations]

• Stakeholders database - validate/upgrade

• Country support groups [public+private]

• Regional workshops - participate

Interviews with Associations

Public AdministrationAERCoR

Eurocities ELANET (CEMR]

Eblida EIA

Private sectorFEP EPF

Private sector involvement

• Country co-ordinators• 30% stakeholders • Survey/interviews • Contacts • Frankfurt• Standards• Regional workshops• Associations• USA

Typology - draft PSI matrix

Type of Information Distributor

Public/ Private

Availability Fee/Free

Accessibility Diff/Easy

Impact on

users

Volume of take-up

Potential Commercial Exploitation

Political processes

Rights & duties

Cultural information

Tourism information

Local level services

and activities

Health, safety and

consumer protection

Geographic

information

Statistical

information

Financial and

economic information

Legal and regulatory

information

Business information

Other

Approach to standards (1)

• Much standards work (especially Metadata) relevant to PSI is already underway e.g.

• IDA MIREG • IST SCHEMAS• USA

• PSINet should not duplicate – co-ordinate work • Holistic/lifecycle approach to standards

• creation• cataloging/identification (resource description)• storage/ preservation• presentation/publishing/re-use/• access (resource discovery/search)

Approach to standards (2)

• Focus on wide interoperability issues.• Plain language description for decision makers.• Remaining work

• draft Standards Map circulated on limited basis

• validate with standards bodies (CEN, ISO, NISO, W3C, implementation groups)

• small, expert workshop with USA participation

• revise Standards Map

Preliminary conclusions from Brussels workshop – (1) public/ private partnerships• Transparency - pricing..licencing• Access - what works best for consumers• Government income - impact on public sector

investment• Minimum public sector needs to do to ’raw

information’ - to enable exploitation? Cost? • Private sector business models• e-monopolies/competition• Impact of policies on ’basic information’, FOI etc

on ’traditional’ businesses• New businesses?

Preliminary Conclusions from Brussels Workshop (2) - Other

• Definition of PSI• Standards, metadata, identifiers,

interoperability• Management of single integrated channels

• standards• portal wars and organisational egos

• Public sector ’mandates’• Local level (versus central level) - information

management (standards, tools, skills, vision)

Regional workshops

• Programme• Rome 22 October• Denmark 29 October• Romania 9 November• Berlin 14 November• Brussels 29 November

• Participants• Country Co-ordinators • expert speakers • public/private sector stakeholders• other projects• etc

Regional workshops: focus

• Refine WP 1 report on policy/innovation/good practice

• ‘Richer picture’ of national and regional cultural, political and infrastructural factors     

• political initiatives  •      regulatory activities  •      infrastructural solutions  •      operative and organisational assets  

• Evaluation (of PSI – build on-Europe Action Plan indicators for public services?)

Web sitewww.publicsectorinfo.org

Recent additions• USA Report• Frankfurt workshop• Portal links

Plans• Project reports [e.g. Standards Map]• e-mail list• Gateway

• ‘national assessments’• regulatory environment• policy documents• initiatives/good practice

Main gains from PSINet (1)

• Human network - country co-ordinators plus support groups in 27 countries of the EU and CEE, many in influential positions

• Stakeholder database - consisting of public administration information providers, user representatives, commercial publishers and aggregators.

• A definition and typology of PSI

Main gains from PSINet (2)

• Consolidated web access to policies, legislation, regulatory regimes and innovations across all 27 countries

• Deeper understanding of the issues affecting business models, regulatory and policy issues

• Plain-language map of standards covering the whole lifecycle of information

• Stronger understanding of what has been achieved in the USA and how Europe can benefit from this experience - contact.

Emerging priorities for further work – 1 - Business and investment models

• Empirical economic research – compare ‘open’ models compared with public sector commercialisation models

 • Identify critical success factors and promote

models for private sector survival and success, stimulate confidence

 • Establish and promote workable groundrules for

public sector processing of raw data + fiscal models for cost assumption.

 

Emerging priorities for further work –

2- Policy and legislation

• Assess and describe regulatory environments in European states

• Encourage emulation of beneficial regulatory frameworks e.g. involving • Freedom of Information• non-assertion of government copyright• ‘dissemination costs’• affirmative rights of public access

• Establish good practice in clear but dynamic mandating of public sector agency activities.

Emerging priorities for further work –3- Information management

• Knowledge sharing – encourage innovation and emulation of successful developments

• Whole lifecycle• Back office, workflow, content management• Architectures and search technologies• Access channels - Web portals, also Digital TV,

mobile communications, kiosks etc • Closely linked to Area 4 (Standards) 

Emerging priorities for further work –4- Standards

• Repackage valuable existing work for PSI• Wide interoperability – encourage consensus

on whole lifecycle, adoption by public and private sector, cross-domain

• Link appropriate developments in standards areas e.g.• metadata• IPR/rights expression• multilingual applications• unique identification and controlled vocabularies

• Move towards Semantic Web, promoting delivery of Web Services, UDDI etc

USA

• Global market for European PSI content

• Global interoperability issues

• Learning from Open Model

• Scope for shared research –e.g. economic models

EPSINet?

• Economic research• Systematic policy and legislation

access• Knowledge-sharing, alerting,

advisory service • Access to training resources

www.publicsectorinfo.org