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What about the Community Agencies ? A report of the French Senat

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A very useful information report 

The whole report (72 pages) http://www.senat.fr/noticerap/2009/r09-017-notice.html  

The TOC : http://www.senat.fr/rap/r09-017/r09-017_mono.html

Resources: 

All the agencies : http://europa.eu/agencies/index_en.htm

Community agencies: http://europa.eu/agencies/community_agencies/index_en.htm

Something must be done at the Europa level to improve the impact of these agencies  

Social media and audience

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Last month, we reported on a survey that found that 84% of social media programs don’t measure return on investment (ROI). The comments in that post indicated that a lot of individuals and businesses want to be able to measure the ROI of their social media strategies and campaigns, but they don’t know where to start.

See also

http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/social-media-roi/

http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/how-to-measure-social-media-roi/

http://mashable.com/2009/09/22/social-media-programs-roi/

“Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums”

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A very useful resource:

A new book published today by Cornell University Library, can help professionals at these institutions answer that question…

The manual is available for purchase $39.95 from CreateSpace. You can download the entire book for free by visiting the Social Science Research Network and the eCommons@Cornell.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142

ISBN: 978-0-935995-10-7

Cornell University Libraries

Read more on http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/10/30/cornell-university-library-publishes-new-digitization-manual/

Maps and Bills

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BillMaps is a mashup between Google Maps and the two political tracking websites, OpenCongress and GovTrack.

The site uses the Google Maps API to show which senators are sponsoring congressional bills.

Thesaurus : ISO DIS 25964

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A new ISO norm for either monolingual or multilingual thesauri

That’s an important aspect for search.

http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=53657

See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organisation_System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(computer_science)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_vocabulary

The social media users are not so young!

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Often it's assumed that teenagers are the main users of social networking tools from Facebook to Twitter.

However the research conducted over the last few years indicates that the real situation is a little different.

Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government.

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A very interesting paper by Lawrence Lessig, which will perhaps provoke controversy

LL is professor of law and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (Penguin). He is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation and on the board of Maplight.org

See also “Institutional Corruption - Opening Lecture”: http://blip.tv/file/2711623

Danish Government launches Public Sector Information Data use competition

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Public Sector Information (“PSI”) data re-use competition : What is it all about?

It’s about that we want to demonstrate through real examples of how public data can be used for much more and much more numerous than they are today. We believe that Danish companies, organizations, students, entrepreneurs and ordinary creative people can create useful digital services and information-rich mash-ups, which we in the public sector do not have the imagination to imagine. Therefore, the science minister Helge Sander printed Ideas Competition government data in games where the best ideas for solutions rewarded with financial support for realization of ideas.

• Evaluation Criteria
• Competition Rules
• Participant Guide
• The FAQ: Questions and Answers

Why not such a competition for EU websites ?

Sources:

http://opendata-network.org/2009/10/danish-government-launches-psi-data-use-competition/

http://www.epsiplus.net/news/competition_opens_100_000_danish_kroner

Why Government 2.0 Has Little To Do With Government

Over the last few months, in client conversations or blog discussions, it has become apparent to me that some of us look at the impact of web 2.0 on government – also nicknamed “Government 2.0” – from the wrong perspective.

Read the entire post on http://blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio/2009/10/06/why-government-2-0-has-little-to-do-with-government/ (October 6th, 2009)

2008 Commission Report on Public Access to Documents

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from Legal-EU Law Blog by Bartolus at http://eulaw.typepad.com/eulawblog/2009/10/2008-commission-report-on-public-access-to-documents.html

The Commission released its annual report on transparency for the year 2008.

You can read the document - COM(2009) 331 final : English version here

Version française du rapport 2008

 

An interesting report indeed, but nothing about the registers for comitology and for the studies (which are no more  available since 2003).

But these papers were not cited in the 1049/2001 regulation.