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PSI Asset Registers and Metadata

PSI Asset Registers and Metadata. Brian Green ePSI plus Analyst. funded by e Content Plus. ePSIplus. ePSIPlus Thematic Network Funded under the eContentplus programme of EC to support the implementation of the European Directive on PSI Re-use

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PSI Asset Registers and Metadata

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  1. PSI Asset Registers and Metadata Brian Green ePSIplus Analyst funded by eContentPlus

  2. ePSIplus ePSIPlus Thematic Network Funded under the eContentplus programme of EC to support the implementation of the European Directive on PSI Re-use Covers all Member (EU, EEA, EFTA) and candidate states Start date: 1 September 2006 Duration 30 months (March 2009)

  3. ePSIplus mission • Monitoring implementation of PSI directive • Identifying barriers and conflicts • Increasing awareness of the value of PSI re-use to business and the economy • Promoting and providing examples of best practice in the area of PSI re-use • Making recommendations to EU on how best to move forward

  4. Five thematic areas 1Legal and regulatory progress and impact 2 Public sector organisation and culture change 3 Encouraging PSI reuse business 4 The financial impact: pricing and charging 5 Information management, standards and data quality

  5. Identify emerging good practice and support clarification of standards issues in relation to improvingon-line discovery and access to PSI across PSI sectors and national borders. Create a basis for improving technical interoperability between the public and the private sectors, focusing especially on mission critical standards areas such as metadata and identifiers which have the potential to ease PSI re-use Information management, standards and data quality: ePSIplus project brief

  6. Discovery and access to PSIQuestions from 1st and 2nd thematic meetings: • How is Public Sector Information structured, identified and described so that potential re-users can find the information relevant to them and know what they are allowed to do with it? • Should there be pan-European metadata standards for PSI asset registers? • How can the compilation of PSI asset lists be given more priority? • Do public sector bodies themselves know what information they have?

  7. PSI Directive: PSI Asset Lists Article 9 Practical ArrangementsMember States shall ensure that practical arrangements are in place that facilitate the search for documents available for re-use, such as asset lists, accessible preferably online, of main documents, and portal sites that are linked to decentralised assets lists.

  8. Are portals adequate? • Many countries seem to have chosen the easier portals path, but… • Portals tend to link to other portals and websites rather than to a database • Not always easy to know where to look for a specific information asset • Portals do not deal with unpublished information

  9. A catalogue of the information held by a public sector organisation A “registry of registries” and of other public sector information that may be made available for re-use in accordance with the PSI Directive …enabling potential re-users to discover what PSI information assets are available for inclusion in new information products etc. What is an Information Asset Register?

  10. To provide a comprehensive resource that does not require a detailed understanding of the structure of Government. (Users often don’t know which departments hold the information they want). To enable potential re-users to identify unpublished data holdings within Government, complementing both official bibliographies of published material, and Freedom of Information Publication Schemes. To help businesses and citizens re-use public sector information in new information products, supporting economic growth Why create an Information Asset Register?

  11. Enable public sector organisations to better manage their information resources Provide a mechanism for maintaining and auditing key information assets Provide a means of knowing what information assets are held by others for sharing or comparison Reduce the risk of losing knowledge about information assets when staff move Information Asset Registers: benefits to public sector organisations

  12. Standards issues • Standards being developed on a national basis, if at all, for information asset register metadata • Metadata elements mainly based on Dublin Core, but with non-standard extensions • No standard identifier (although DOI is being used) • Very limited expression of usage rights • Growing interest in possibilities of semantic web • Are pan-European standards desirable/possible? • Standard data elements or semantic interoperability?

  13. Standards for PSI asset lists Forum topic at: www.ePSIplus.net

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