Luxembourg, 31 March 2011

(by Ton Zijlstra)

A new Topic Report is now available, titled 'Local and Regional Data'. Written by Rob Davies, this is the 27th and final report produced under the 2009-2011 service contract for the ePSI platform. The series of regular reports will be continued in the coming 2 years.

This report describes the recent progress being made in improving access to local government data for re-use, catalyzed by Open Data initiatives, reflecting some of the mechanisms which are being deployed. It summarises some apparent issues which remain to be resolved and outlined some initiatives and possible ways of improving discovery and access across localities and borders.

The report is also embedded below for browsing and downloading.