Rome, 2 September 2011

(by Ton Zijlstra)

The Italian ministry for public administration and innovation has published new guidelines for Italian public administration websites. These guidelins are the result of a public consultation that ended in July 2011. The Piemonte data portal blog has some details.

The guidelines contain several items of interest to PSI re-use and open data provisioning:

• Rules for registering a .gov.it domain name
• A virtual space to discuss practicalities of applying the guidelines with all relevant stakeholder groups
• Underlining the value and potential of making PSI available for re-use
• Using open and interoperable file and data formats
• Recommending Creative Commons licenses, or the CC compatible IODL license.

More information (in Italian) can be found at Forum Saperi.