en.europa-eu-audience

Overcoming Barriers to Open Government Data

At the University of Leeds we are conducting a research project on overcoming barriers to realising the value of open government data. We would like to invite you to participate in an online survey – https://www.survey.leeds.ac.uk/open-data - it would be great to get your insight and input in this area. We welcome responses from participants across the private, public and not for profit sectors, and academia and civil society.

Both from within the UK and internationally. You do not need a detailed knowledge of open data to take part. By participating in this survey and providing your viewpoint you will be helping to shape policy, research and the wider dialogue on open government data. You can also enter a draw to win one of three £50 Amazon vouchers. Finally, suggestions of individuals or networks that would consider participating in the survey would be greatly appreciated (please forward on this email or let me know).

Thank you in advance for your time considering this request to participate in the survey. For any further information about the research please contact Dr. Chris Martin (email: [email protected]; twitter: @chrismartin81; telephone: 0113 3431950).

Open Data Hub of the EU: a beta version

A good initiative

Have a look on it

http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data

 

A new EUR-lex for 2013

See http://surveys.publications.europa.eu/formserver/PO/EURLEX/eurlex_newsletter_en.html

 

 

 

Web accessibility is not improving very quickly ...

It could be better on the EU websites

See http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/accessibility/guidelines.html

 

OpenGov

A new initiative

See http://opengovplatform.org/

See also: unpan.org/Events/BrowseEventsbyCalendar/tabid/94/mctl/EventDetails/ModuleID/1532/ItemID/2228/language/en-US/Default.aspx

 

 

Exploiting and Extending a Semantic Resource for Conceptual Indexing

See http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00764330

Exploiting and Extending a Semantic Resource for Conceptual Indexing Karam Abdulahhad 1, Jean-Pierre Chevallet ( ) 1, Catherine Berrut 1, 2 (15/03/2011) Information Retrieval Systems that compute a matching between a document and a query based on terms intersection, cannot reach relevant documents that do not share any terms with the query. The objective of this study is to propose a solution to this problem in the context of conceptual indexing. We study an ontology-based matching that exploits links between concepts. We propose a model that exploits the weighted links of an ontology. We also propose to extend the links of the ontology to reflect the structural ambiguity of some concepts. A validation of our proposal is made on the test collection ImagCLEFMed 2005 and the external resource UMLS 2005.

Your microblogging website dedicated to Library and Information Science

http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/

A white paper on Curation in the Cloud

JISC have released a white paper on Curation in the Cloud, which looks at the potential and practicalities of using cloud-based solutions for the curation and long-term preservation of digital materials, focusing particularly on data that originates from research or that supports research processes ...

Read more on http://www.dcc.ac.uk/node/9682

USA: Civil Society Progress Report on the National Action Plan – Sept. 2012

Source: http://greatemancipator.com/2012/09/25/key-areas-of-attention-remain/

Download NAP-ProgressReportFinal

European Legislation Identifier (ELI): a green light to go ahead

Download EU_132546