Standards map

The work in EPSInet on standards will concentrate on providing information and guidelines for non-technical managers and decision-makers on de jure and de facto standards relevant to PSI access and exploitation based on the information lifecycle approach developed in PSINet. A map of over 600 standards, providing a simple explanation and links to further information on each standard. The map, which was created in Microsoft Excel, can be viewed on the web or, for greater speed of access, saved as an Excel file.

  Standards Map

Management Guideline

This document is the first of a series of Guidelines related to PSI Management, produced by the ePSINet team within PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Luxembourg. The guidelines have the objective of providing information about all issues affecting the management of public sector information (PSI) as an economic resource.

This work fits in the overall objectives of the EPSINet project that set out (quote from Annex 1 -Description of Work of the EPSINet contact) to provide important support for the objectives and creation of conditions for PSI which are stated in the Commission's Communication of 23 October 2001 to the European Council, Parliament and Committee of the Regions: "e-Europe 2002: Creating an EU Framework for the Exploitation of Public Sector Information" by undertaking definitional, knowledge-sharing and dissemination work and providing tools which address major barriers to effective exploitation of PSI at present

 Guideline

• Second version of EPSINET PSI Management

  The second version of the guideline has the objective of providing information about all issues affecting the management of PSI as an economic resource. The new guideline concludes with concrete recommendations related to the management in PSI.

   Guideline

Regulatory Report (Germany)

A general description of the basic structure of the consitutional organisation and the general policy and the main areas of law on exploitation and (re)use of public sector information. You will find such basic description for every EU member, CEE countries included (Summer 2004). Here is the example for Germany:

 Guideline

Good practice documents:

• New report on 5 cases of exploitation of PSI

  The EPSINet project team has published a report on 5 cases of exploitation of PSI, assessing the conformity with the rules on re-use of public sector information set out in the Directive on re-use of public sector information (DIRECTIVE 2003/98/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information).

   Report

  Please subscribe as member to get access to the members area to find the update of this document with two more new case studies

• Reorganisation of Government Back Offices for Better Electronic Public Services - European Good Practices

  This report presents and analyses the detailed results of one of the first studies at European level to systematically research how public agencies are using ICT to reorganise, and the impact this has upon how electronic public services are experienced by citizens and business - in other words, on the changing relationship between the front and back- office. Authors: Institut für Informationsmanagement Bremen GmbH and Danish Technological Institute

   Report

• Click-Use is the term used to describe HMSO's online licences.

   Report

Dispute
Ordnance Survey (The Ground Rules)

This article by Edward Pitt of UK legal firm Addleshaw Goddard, seeks to set out the legal framework of rules covering Ordnance Survey's behaviour when competing as a commercial undertaking and how those rules (especially the competition rules) are designed to encourage Ordnance Survey to supply first class geographic information alongside others in the public and the private sector, in the light of interesting recent items in the press recently making some assertions about Ordnance Survey's obligations when competing with the private sector.

 Article