Short version of Euroalert powered by open data presentation at the 1st Digital Agenda Assembly 16th June ("01. Open data and re-use of public sector information" workshop). Only 8 slides for 7 minutes presentation

1. Powered by opendata
Building a pan-European
platform to aggregate public
procurement data and deliver
commercial services for SMEs
powered by open data
Digital Agenda Assembly Jose L. Marín de la Iglesia
Brussels, 16 June 2011 http://twitter.com/jluismarin

2. Open data is also for business
Transparency
Helps citizens to make
better decisions
Create added-value information
products & services
Delivered by
companies powered by open data like
with

3. 10ders IS: Aggregating public contracts
is a private held company that provides
value added information services related to pan-EU matters
and builds a Pan­European platform by
aggregating public contracts in the EU
2155 B Euros
(17% EU GDP)
Users
Journals and Official Gazettes Associations
Procurement Platforms Authorities
Buyer profiles SMEs
Agencies
Deliver innovative and cost­effective products
& services for SMEs, to help them to increase
competitiveness in EU public markets

4. Adding value to public procurement data
Permanent
Official Machine-readable
Sources Timely
Primary
Licensed, reviewable
gathers, understands, indexes, enriches
API: opXML
searches, filters, mashes-up
ADDS VALUE
Re-packages, Distributes, Publishes
WEB WIDGETS PRODUCT
SERVICES WINNER
REPORTS GTW Users
Associations
SPARQL LISTS ALERTS CLOUD Pubic Authorities
ENDPOINT SMEs
Agencies

5. The Idea is simple, the challenge is huge
Technical Legal
No unified data structures Licensing
Storing big data Business model(s)
Multiple languages Inexpensive
Fragmentation in thousands of Conflict Resolution
sources
Cultural
Open data awareness among Authorities
but OUR real challenge is
Unlocking the data
in machine readable formats

6. Business model(s) and products
Certification
many
Subsidized
Subscription Traffic generation possible
Advertising Differentiation business
Transformation Apps Sale models
Automatic Publication: Widgets & WS
Alerts with contract opportunities
Data mining for Market intelligence: product
reports, winner lists, trends,...
Private branded systems ... and more
Delivered to Clients in 15 countries

7. Euroalert approach to unlocking data
Formal request addressed to data holder
Sometimes presentation of the objectives
License agreement signature
and sometimes complaint placement :(
Data re-use of new source within 10ders IS
Upgrade of current products

8. What does Euroalert suggest to data holders?
No need to invest much at first
Any data structure is ok if it's slightly documented
Update timely according to reliable criteria
License for commercial exploitation
Automatic download (URIs, API, WS, even email attach)
Release whatever format is convenient
Machine readable – RAW DATA – Any format is OK
PDF or HTML is NOT enough
Machine-readable data is OK
later on you can improve (and earn stars)
Re-users will invest if there's value

9. Takeaways from Euroalert experience
RAW Data is enough
Not enough useful open data released
Conflict resolution - ShowMeTheTenders.net
Still experimenting with business model(s)
Standardization should play a role
Spend wisely – re-users will invest
Big space for innovation & value creation
ROI will be awesome!

10. License for these slides
Jose L. Marín de la Iglesia
http://twitter.com/jluismarin
aportamosvalor
June 2011