PSI: Activities undertaken in Regione Piemonte

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PSIActivities undertakenin Regione Piemonte

• Meeting on PSI Portals
• Luxembourg, September 25th, 2009

Marta Garabuggio Andrea Muraca
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Agenda

• The regulatory framework
• Regione Piemonte
• PA Databases
• Data Sharing policies
• Re-use and licences
• Information Directory
• The catalogue as a PSI asset list
• Future developments

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The regulatory framework

• European Directive on public data reuse
  2003/98/CE
• Italy D.Lgs. 36, 24 January 2006, implementation
  of European Directive

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Promotion policy

• Promotion policy for public data reuse
• Nodal points from EU Commissions promotion
  policy
• to draft non discriminatory and user-friendly
  standard licences
• to provide ourselves with a complete and
  well-supplied (with research and consultation
  tools, on the web, of course) metadata catalogue
  (metadata is the key!)
• to plan fitted supply classes, in order to ease
  public data input in private information systems
• Regione Piemonte is working on all sides

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Piemonte Region

• Located in the north-west of Italy, bordering
  France and Switzerland
• Capital city Turin
• Population 4.5 Millions
• 8 Provinces
• 1,206 Municipalities/Towns
• 8.1 contribution to national GDP
• 7.0 unemployment rate

Data as at March 2009
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Public Sector Information Heritage - Piemonte
Multimedial Databases Video Community On-Line
(Provincia Torino) Multimedia information sharing
on environment (Regione Piemonte and ARPA,
Regional Agency for Environment) Piemonte
Digital Library Photo-Archive (Provincia Torino)
Databases of laws and administrative bills
Regional Laws (Arianna, about 2000 laws from
1971)
7,3 Gb
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CSI-Piemonte supports data-sharing and
integration of public bodies information systems
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Institutional framework

• In Piemonte
• DGR n. 11/1161 Agreement Protocol on sharing,
  developing and disseminating Regional Information
  Heritage (July 2005)
• art. 4The Public Administrations, , to create
  favourable and competitive market conditions,
  commit to define the form of sharing to economic
  operators
• DGR 31 11679, 29 June 2009 Approval of document
  Guidelines on Regional Information Heritage
  reuse and standard licence pattern for reuse.
  First time in Italy for a PA initiative of this
  kind.

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Data Sharing policies undertaken actions
Agreement Protocol among Local Governments
Development of access data services (e.g DWH)
Definition of licences
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Data Reuse Licences key issues

• Licences define data use regulation's "contract"
• In licences you define
• commercial/non commercial use
• price
• allowed reuse
• use conditions (integration, new services, etc.)
• source acknowledgment and logo use
• With the DGR 31 - 11679 (29th of June, 2009)
  guidelines and licence model have been approved.
• Guidelines set principles and general policies
  for reuse in Piemonte region, while the licence
  model represents a regional management tool to
  ease definition of single supply licences.

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Information Directory

• It is the metadata catalogue of Piemontes PA
  resources
• it contains information related to databases,
• applications and products of
• Piemonte Region
• Province of Turin
• Municipality of Turin
• Regional Council
• users can look for information by means of a
• search engine service (free search) or
  browsing
• methods (thematic channels search)

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Information Directory back-office

Back-office
Metadata
Front-office
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Information Directory back-office

• Metadata operator, who describes information, use
  back-office in order to
• insert and update objects metadata (databases,
  applications)
• classify objects and define their keywords
• relate objects with other resources
• publish objects
• give authorizations to users to modify or read
  metadata
• import metadata (including XML format) from
  external systems

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Information Directory metadata

Back-office
Metadata
Front-office
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Information Directory metadata

• The heart of InfoDir is the metadata repository
  
• Main types of used metadata are
• Descriptive metadata such as title, description,
  author
• Structural metadata that indicate relations,
  coverage, e.g.
• Administrative metadata that provide information
  about
• how the resources are created, who can access
  them
• Technical metadata like server name, type of
  database, e.g.
• Implementation of repository is based on
• Qualified Dublin Core standard
• http//www.dublincore.org/
• The whole textual content of repository is
  indexed

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Information Directory front-end

Back-office
Metadata
Front-office
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Information Directory front-end

• Users use the search engine to look for
  information.
• Information Directory provides different types of
  search
• Simple by keyword OR classifications
• Combined by keyword AND classifications
• Advanced using filters

different ways to find relevant information
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Information Directory front-end

• Its possible for each information resource
• to consult descriptive metadata
• to explore related resources and documents
• Users can also
• explore structure of databases (tables and
  columns)
• access to free services that provide public
  domain information

Tabel 1
Columns
Database
Tabel 2
Tabel n
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PSI Policy international principles

• ePSIplus Recommendations
• R1.Progress on implementation of the Directive
• R2. Channels for redress
• R3. Discriminatory practices
• R4. Access to PSI
• R5. Stimulating the private sector to act
• R6. The Economic Case
• R7. Specific provisions of the Directive

4.2 Practical initiatives to create asset
registries or other PSI infrastructures
supporting re-use should be supported at national
level and where cross-border in nature, at
European level. Initiatives of this kind should
incorporate rights expression facilities
including the ability for the user to identify
applicable licences and should build on the
potential gains being made in Semantic Web and
Web 2.0 technologies.
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Information Directory history

2000Information Directory was developed as a
metadata catalogue for Regione Piemontes
information resources (on intranet)
2008Information Directory as a PSI Asset
Register (on internet) Added to the asset-list of
SEMIC.eu
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Information Directory as a PSI asset list

• PSI Asset Register
• Starting point InfoDir
• selection of databases
• possibility of searching for only reusable
  databases
• selection of metadata thinking of final users
• possibility of consulting associated license only
  for reusable databases

• http//www.sistemapiemonte.it/innovazionetecnologi
  a/infodir/index.shtml

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Information Directory as a PSI asset list
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Information Directory organisational view

Automatic update procedures  
Metadata DB
CSI metadata operator Public Sector metadata
operator
Web application XML Back-office Metadata
entering and update  
DocDigger Controller and Indexer
 
Web server
Indexed Contents on file system
Web application Information Directory

• Multi-access
• Multi-layout
• Public
• Private

Piemonte Region 1. select data to internet
catalogue publishing 2. select the re-use
databases
RE-USE DATA LICENCES
Citizens and Firms
Piemonte Region
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New release

• Licenze Application
• Development of the Licenze application, which
  plugs into Information Directory and allows
  registered users to accept a dynamically-composed
  licence (according to users profile and type of
  reuse) and access a private area for downloading
  regional data, using an open and standard format

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Licences and accommodation facilities

• First regional data released for reuse
• First case of raw data released for reuse by
  means of a designated licence Accommodation
  Facilities Registry.

The supply daily updated XML files for about
5000 hotels and other accomodations, and about
500 features and services for each. Currently,
Piemonte Region intend to disseminate this data
for free to every re-use purposes
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Future Developments

• Increasing public data supply flux for reuse,
  license equipped with its own regional XML
  standard schema for data dissemination (for
  example, PS address list, schools, museums, local
  public transport)
• Developing a proper reuse portal, with
  information, news and tools for interactive
  activities and automatic updating
• Supervising success and use of data released for
  reuse

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Future Developments

• Application of Data Quality certification to
  InfoDir, in order to link quality information to
  data set supply
• Design and Implementation of a Data Quality
  Firewall, in order to manage data quality in
  service architecture
• Introduction of a ontology-based semantic layer,
  to improve information search and comprehension
• Participation to CALL5 - Intelligent Information
  Management, together with Milan Bicocca
  University and other partners, with the RIMMEL4US
  projects proposal

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Future Developments

• Promoting activities
• promotion (together with other PA) of a regional
  model for public data reuse (best practice)
• at local level (model dissemination towards
  Provinces, Municipalities, ...) and national
  level (reuse portal)
• at international level (based on the database
  catalogue constructions topic, for example the
  general impression is for Piemonte to be
  undoubtedly ahead from this point of view, as far
  as both technology and processes are concerned)
• promotion, by means of public presentations, use
  and comparison, with private operators, of
  available tools.

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• Thank you for your attention!
• Marta.Garabuggio_at_regione.piemonte.it
• Andrea.Muraca_at_csi.it