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Sources for eBooks (english and french versions)

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Source : http://www.ebouquin.fr/2010/02/27/ou-trouver-des-livres-electroniques/ ,

 27-02-2010

In bold typefaces, the recommandations of « eBouquin »

Formats:  ePub, Mobipocket and/or  PDF

EU online libraries needs 'more and better' content

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Source : http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/eu-online-library-needs-more-and-better-content-news-279202 , Published: 23 February 2010

Also inside the EU websites’ libraries ? See our theme : http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/5_publications/

Project "eXists" to Preserve Digital Government Information

Source: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100219news_article_mn_meeting.html

February 19, 2010 --The partners from the Model Technological and Social Architecture for the Preservation of State Government Digital Information Project convened on January 20, 2010 in Sacramento, California .

All the EU legislation in produced in XML format

State partners are preserving digital legislative information. The project, lead by the Minnesota Historical Society, is working with legislatures in several states to explore enhanced access to legislative digital records. The purpose of this meeting was to provide an update on recent activities, concentrating on a demonstration of the open source eXist native XML database .

eXist has been selected by the project for building pilot applications for importing, searching, exporting and managing digital legislative information, much of which is already in XML format. In conjunction with the meeting, the project has published a white paper  on XML Native Databases, providing background information on how XML has changed the way data can be stored and accessed, and providing a primer on the differences between the different types of XML databases.

W3C: eGovernment Interest Group

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A very good source: http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Main_Page

The mission of the eGovernment Interest Group (eGov IG) is to explore how to improve access to government through better use of the Web and achieve better government transparency using open Web standards at any government level (local, state, national and multi-national). The eGov IG is designed as a forum to support researchers, developers, solution providers, and users of government services that use the Web as the delivery channel, and enable broader collaboration across eGov practitioners.

Find more in the executive summary. Learn more about eGovernment at W3C. 

The “2010 Strategies QualiWEB Trophy” awarded to Legifrance

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The trophy  “Strategies QualiWEB 2010” awarded the 50 best websites of the year for their online customer relationship. They were presented February 10, 2010. Among the six websites of the public service, three (www.legifrance.gouv.fr , www.service-public.fr  and www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr ) are managed by theDILA, the new organization for legal and administrative information.

Read more on http://www.secteurpublic.fr/public/article/le-trophee-2010-strategies-qualiweb-remis-a-legifrance-1er-site-pour-le-secteur-public.html?id=29388&C5=336

Noted by Stéphane Cottin on http://twitter.com/cottinstef/statuses/9346312323 (19-02-2010)

France : improve the quality of the relation with citizens

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Extract from the newsletter of the library public relations ( "BRP"), a letter that we would like to see spread by the Office of Publications on behalf of EU institutions, the equivalent of "French Documentation "

Accountability for local government performance and assessment

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 Source: http://greatemancipator.com/2010/02/09/accountability/  , “The great emancipator”, 9-02-2010

A report to appear amidst the grey literature in February is one from Localis entitled “For Good Measure – Devolving Accountability for Performance and Assessment to Local Areas“.

Accountability also for the EU institutions 

Sophia Semantic Engine: Semantic analysis and natural language comprehension

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Sophia Semantic Engine is software that analyzes and understands natural language, creating a layer of interpretation in applications that interact with users in a linguistic form and applications that deal with unstructured information. The Sophia Semantic Engine is based on proprietary morpho-syntactic analysis modules and on a semantic lexicon of broad coverage. Domain-dependent modules for semantic analysis are developed on top of a base syntactic analysis component.

http://celi.it/en/sophia-semantic-engine.shtml

Efficiency & Effectiveness

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Source: http://epractice.eu/en/workshops/efficiency

Belgium, Date: 17. March 2010

About

This workshop is an initiative of DG INFSO, European Commission that will encourage the sharing of good practice in the area of efficient and effective eGovernment. It will take place in Brussels, on March 17th. In particular, the workshop will take stock of eGovernment good practices related to Measurement – how Member States, Regions and public administrations in general measure their performance (back office) and/or the impact and user satisfaction of the eGovernment services. Ultimately, this workshop will aim to share good practice initiatives, knowledge and experiences on the field as a means of accelerating the uptake of eGovernment services and improving both policy-making and research.

Areas of interest include:

• Case studies: Reports on tangible results of efficiency gains in eGovernment.
• Towards 2015: Efficiency and effectiveness to reduce the administrative burden; improve organisational processes; promote a sustainable low-carbon economy (Ref. Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment of 18 Nov 2009, Malmö, Sweden).
• Towards 2015: Efficiency and effectiveness to reduce the administrative
• Increasing public engagement as a means to increase effectiveness.
• Benchmarking efficiency improvement: methods to objectively measure the efficiency gains of eGovernment policies and implementations.
• Potential of a single structure for the delivery of social assistance services (child support, unemployment, disability benefit, pensions).
• Peer-to-peer benchlearning--learning from each other's activities and effort.

2010 : wishful thinking

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2010: at the beginning of this New Year or even this decade, wishful thinking might be permitted.
We may classify these wishes according to our favoured topics (or categories). They are based on the 500 postings in French and some 450 in English classified according to the following categories since two and a half years:

0 - Audience
1 - Access to documents / Registers
2 - EU Context
3 - Legislative procedure
4 - EU Law
5 - Publications
6 - Case Law
7 - Multilingualism