English Version Posted on 25/06/2010
Source :
Source : http://data.gov.uk/blog/new-public-sector-transparency-board-and-public-data-transparency-principles
A lire aussi en anglais la présentation sur http://www.slideshare.net/egovrc/open-government-the-state-of-play et en français http://owni.fr/2010/09/20/de-l’open-a-la-freedata/
Les données publiques sont des informations factuelles, non nominatives utilisées par les services publics, elles sont au fondement de leurs actions.
Lire ci-après le projet des principes régissant les
données publiques.
Draft Public Data Principles
- Public data policy and practice will be clearly
driven by the public and businesses who want and use the data, including
what data is released when and in what form – and
in addition to the legal Right To Data itself this overriding principle
should apply to the implementation of all the other principles.
- Public data will be published in reusable,
machine-readable form – publication alone is only part of
transparency – the data needs to be reusable, and to make it reusable it needs
to be machine-readable. At the moment a lot of Government information is
locked into PDFs or other unprocessable formats.
- Public data will be released under the same open
licence which enables free reuse, including commercial reuse – all
data should be under the same easy to understand licence. Data released
under the Freedom of Information Act or the new Right to Data should be
automatically released under that licence.
- Public data will be available and easy to find
through a single easy to use online access point (data.gov.uk) – the
public sector has a myriad of different websites, and search does not work
well across them. It’s important to have a well-known single point where
people can find the data.
- Public data will be published using open
standards, and following relevant recommendations of the World Wide Web
Consortium. Open, standardised formats are essential.
However to increase reusability and the ability to compare data it also
means openness and standardisation of the content as well as the format.
- Public data underlying the Government’s own
websites will be published in reusable form for others to use –
anything published on Government websites should be available as data for
others to reuse. Public bodies should not require people to come to their
websites to obtain information.
- Public data will be timely and fine grained – Data
will be released as quickly as possible after its collection and in as
fine a detail as is possible. Speed may mean that the first release may
have inaccuracies; more accurate versions will be released when available.
- Release data quickly, and then re-publish it in
linked data form – Linked data standards allow the most powerful
and easiest re-use of data. However most existing internal public sector
data is not in linked data form. Rather than delay any release of the
data, our recommendation is to release it ‘as is’ as soon as possible, and
then work to convert it to a better format.
- Public data will be freely available to use in
any lawful way – raw public data should be available without
registration, although for API-based services a developer key may be
needed. Applications should be able to use the data in any lawful way
without having to inform or obtain the permission of the public body
concerned.
- Public bodies should actively encourage the
re-use of their public data – in addition to publishing the
data itself, public bodies should provide information and support to
enable it to be reused easily and effectively. The Government should also
encourage and assist those using public data to share knowledge and
applications, and should work with business to help grow new, innovative
uses of data and to generate economic benefit.
- Public bodies should maintain and publish inventories
of their data holdings – accurate and up-to-date records of data
collected and held, including their format, accuracy and availability.
They are asking everyone to help shape and define
these important principles and have set up a commentable version on
our wiki. Please use the talk page to discuss the principles and the wiki
page to make any changes needed.