Share-PSI 2.0 - Shared Standards for Open Data and Public Sector Information
Abstract:
Share-PSI 2.0 brings together a critical mass of government agencies and organisations responsible for implementing the new Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive. The network will proceed via a series of five workshops on different themes related to the implementation of the new PSI Directive. Partners will contribute case studies of relevant work done, successful or otherwise; each workshop will include external participants selected on the basis of submitted position papers, and will generate a standalone report. The inputs and outputs from each workshop will be aggregated into a single best practices document that, through an independent process, may become a recognised W3C standard. Importantly, this document will be localised in each of the countries covered by the network. Localisation will cover language(s) but, more importantly, it will refer to the specific implementation methods that apply in those countries. For example, how to contact a specific national or city-wide data portal, which controlled vocabularies should be used, which licence(s) is/are appropriate and so on. The result will be country-specific guidance on implementing a harmonised approach to implementation of the PSI Directive on open data across at least a majority of European countries.
ERCIM's role:
Project coordinator
Duration:
30 months from February 2014 to July 2016
Total cost: 917,000.00 €
Total EC Funding: 917,000.00 €
Partners:
W3C/GEIE ERCIM, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, PricewaterhouseCoopers Enterprise Advisory cvba, Institut Mihajlo Pupin, Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Forum Virium Helsinki Oy - Radio- Ja Televisiotekniikan Tutkimus RTT, Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT, University of Economics, Prague, The Ministry of Finance Finland, University of Zagreb, Malta Information Technology Agency / Government of Malta, Ministerstvo financií Slovenskej republiky, University of the Aegean, Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Publica, Latvijas Universitates Matematikas Un Informatikas Instituts, Agência para a Modernização Administrativa IP, Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale, Universitaet Fuer Weiterbildung Krems, CTIC Centro Tecnológico, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Peter Krantz AB, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Birmingham City Council (Digital Birmingham), Politecnico di Torino, Open Knowledge Foundation Limited, Estonian Information System’s Authority, ]init[ AG für digitale Kommunikation, The PSI Alliance, The Scottish Government, Open Data Institute,Unversitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Hellenic Ministry of Administrative Reform and E-governance, National University of Ireland, Galway - Digital Enterprise Research Institute, X/Open Company Limited, Universidad De La Laguna, AMI Consult S.à r.l., Open Geospatial Consortium (Europe) Limited, Vlaamse Gewest, UAB Linked Data, Ministrstvo Za Notranje Zadeve
Interoperability of Interactive and Hybrid TV systems – A new advanced scheme for future services and applications in a global environment
Abstract:
Global ITV is an EU-Brazil Research and Development Cooperation with the goal to develop an interoperability scheme that allows several iDTV and Smart TV systems to work together, exhchanging and using the information. The ultimate aim is to lay the foundation for a global interoperable platform.
ERCIM's role:
Project partner
Duration:
24 months from December 2013 to November 2015
Total cost: 1,911,655€
Total EC Funding:1,499,951€
Partners:
European Partners:
IRT – Institut für Rundfunktechnik GmbH (DE), Aqua Consult Ingenieros SL (ES), VESTEL (TR), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (DE), TDF (FR), Retevisión SA (ES), Symelar Innovación (ES), European Broadcasting Union (CH), ERCIM/W3C
Brazilian partners:
Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Universidade Federal do Pará, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Associação do Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis Tecnológico, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Universidade Federal do ABC, BAND TV, HXD Interactive Television
Linked Open Data for environment protection in Smart Regions
Abstract:
SmartOpenData will create a Linked Open Data infrastructure (including software tools and data) fed by public and freely available data resources, existing sources for biodiversity and environment protection and research in rural and European protected areas and its National Parks. This will provide opportunities for SMEs to generate new innovative products and services that can lead to new businesses in the environmental, regional decision-making and policy areas among others. The value of the data will be greatly enhanced by making it available through a common query language that gives access to related datasets available in the linked open data cloud. The commonality of data structure and query language will overcome the monolingual nature of typical datasets, making them available in multiple languages.
ERCIM's role:
Project partner
Duration:
24 months from November 2013 to October 2015
Total cost: 3,189,475 €
Total EC Funding:2,355,400 €
Partners:
Empresa de Transformación Agraria SA (coordinator); Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; National Microelectronics Applications Centre, Ireland; Sindice LTD; Mid-West Regional Authority, Ireland; Regional Environmental Protection Agency of Sicily (A.R.P.A. Sicilia); Fondazione Bruno Kessler; SpazioDati s.r.l.; Help Service Remote Sensing SRO, CZ; Forest Management Institute (UHUL), CZ; Czech Centre for Science and Society; SINTEF, Norway; Latvijas Universitates Matematikas Un Informatikas Instituts; General Directorate of the Territory of the Ministry of Agriculture,
Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning, Portugal; Slovak Environmental Agency (SAZP); ERCIM/W3C
Linked Data as an enabler of cross-media and multilingual content analytics for enterprises across Europe
Abstract:
The project’s mission is to provide the basis for the creation of a Linguistic Linked Data cloud that can support content analytics tasks of unstructured multilingual cross-media content. By achieving this goal, LIDER will impact on the ease and efficiency with which Linguistic Linked Data will be exploited in content analytics processes.
ERCIM's role:
Project partner
Duration:
24 months from November 2013 to October 2015
Total cost: 1,482,320 €
Total EC Funding:1,482,320 €
Partners:
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (coordinator), Trinity College Dublin, German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Institute for Applied Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Universität Bielefeld, Sapienza University of Rome, ERCIM/W3C
D-CENT: Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies
Abstract:
D-CENT will create a bottom-up, decentralised, open platform for collective awareness based on integrating already successful open-source codebases. Its first practical experiments will address democratic engagement,
building on Europe's largest experiments in direct democracy – the Open Ministry linked into parliament in
Finland, and the involvement of the whole population in shaping a new wiki-constitution in Iceland – as well as
one of Europe’s most dynamic social movements, in Spain. These will show how millions of citizens can become
engaged in day-to-day deliberation, and decision-making.
ERCIM's role:
Project partner
Duration:
32 months from October 2013 to June 2016
Total cost: 2,543,071 €
Total EC Funding:1,905,000 €
Partners:
Nesta, UK (coordinator); University of Catalunya, Spain; Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, France; The International Modern Media Institute, Iceland; Forum Virium Helsinki, Finland; Open Knowledge Foundation, UK; Neo, UK; Dyne Foundation, Netherlands; ERCIM/W3C