open data communities: what is going on in italy?
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Presentation for LAPSI conference.TRANSCRIPT
Open Data communitiesWhat's going on in Italy?
Stefano CostaOpen Knowledge Foundation Italia
Milano, 5th May 2011
Communities:
● Non-institutional● Non-governative● Bottom-up organisations
Caveat
There is no Freedom of Information Act in Italy
SpaghettiOpenData.org
SpaghettiOpenData.org
● Unstructured community● Civil servants● Software developers● Civic hackers
Transparency
Business
et cetera
Participation
Transparency
The Guardian
Wired Italia
La Repubblica (major newspaper)
Raw data from abroad
Associazione Italiana per l'Open Government
http://tinyurl.com/opendataitalia
Geodata(aka: we were here before anyone else)
OpenStreetMap.it
Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera
Promoting Free and Open Source Geospatial Software and Open Geodata
LinkedOpenData.it
Participatory Sky Quality Monitoring(under ODBL)
Open Bibliographic data (beta)
What is relevant to LAPSI?
● Nor “Public Sector Information” neither “PSI” are part of the day-to-day vocabulary of open data communities
● Some communities (but not all) are deeply aware of the importance of legal aspects ‒we need to create bridges of exchange
● There's a varying level of interaction between Italy and EU initiatives thematic ‒networks play a key role
Do we have a common strategy?
One ring to rule'em all
CKAN: the data hub
http://it.ckan.net/
Main contributions come from ...
Tracking re-use
From open to linked
Grazie!
Stefano [email protected]
Open Knowledge Foundation ItaliaMilano, 5th May 2011
Image credits:Spaghetti: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gotosira/4699302559/Mapping conference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pibinko/2570491916/Mapping Spritz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pibinko/2531017400/