Spain: Joint dialogue helps!
The Spanish Asociación Multisectorial de la Información (ASEDIE) has a news release following the 24th June 2010 meeting between Spanish public sector information holders and ASEDIE.
The states (approximate translation from the Spanish version):
ASEDIE organize the second meeting between government and infomediary companies
“Multisectoral Association organized ASEDIE Information June 24, 2010 in Madrid the second meeting between government and enterprises infomedarias around the reuse of public sector information.
The meetings organized by Asedie are intended to provide a forum dialogue between government and business, in which the first can show the information they have available for reuse and the latter can know directly, questions, suggestions and contributions in this regard.
This second meeting, which was moderated by Vice President of ASEDIE, held in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), and consisted of 25 private sector participants and the presentations of the SPTO, the National Institute Statistics (INE), the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM), and Ministry of Housing.
ASEDIE brings together companies whose object is the use, reuse and distribution of information, shaping the information industry and contributing to provide greater security in commercial activities by implementing global methods to promote the reliability and transparency of transactions stores in the business.
The SPTO described the different types of information with which it works, as patents, trademarks, utility models or industrial designs and how to structure the form on its website. It also highlighted the free information services at its disposal (search for trademarks, patents, inventions and designs, location of records, newsletters ...) and a virtual office from which you can perform many procedures.
Then, the INE established in his speech that one of its objectives key is to "raise awareness and use of statistical information all types of users. " That is why its policy of disseminating information built around this purpose. INE is currently working on development of various projects to facilitate the use of their information through the development of feeds and gadgets, and improvement work in relation to the presentation and access to information, the importance of metadata and the possibility of include new formats.
In presenting the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marino highlighted the substantial information that the ministry account which holds also a long tradition of collecting and disseminating information. Proof of this is the platform of knowledge, implementation tool to "provide knowledge to agricultural and fishing sectors and the entire society. " Similarly, other contents are subject to reuse, such as publications, environmental databases, content Multimedia audio-visual MARM, statistical information and digital mapping of geographic information systems, as well as documentary records of great historical value.
Finally, the Ministry of Housing presented the data he works with (Statistics, urban geographic information, information on grants and grants, reports, studies ...) and their categorization by the degree of reuse. It said its policy of reuse in which the distinction between contain information not reusable for personal data, information Free reusable (news, press releases, statistics, guides, studies and reports, pictures and brochures), and that has a payment, as are the publications. He noted that there is information itself Ministry reused in other administrations, so refer to the original source of this information.
The Ministery also highlighted the evolution of the Digital Atlas, which provides information on land use, population, the building type, the approach urban and other related data. This application leads to the development of predefined reports and allows the creation of custom maps.
Finally, we presented the Soil Portal and Urban Policy, which aims to provide information on urban reality in Spain from different perspectives, not only as a basis for research and knowledge but also as an urban useful tool for making decisions about urban policy and territorial. This site follows the INSPIRE legislation, and its contents will be expanded soon with sustainability indicators.
From the Project APORTA wants to highlight the high quality and value of dialogue and usefulness for promoting public-private cooperation, and we look forward the conclusion of the third meeting to be held during the month of September.”
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