Abstract

Publishing open data managed by public administrations is beginning to be considered a strategic action for social and economic development. The legislative and policy support on this issue should be complemented by practical considerations related to certain technical aspects. These aspects have a nimpact on the descriptive metadata datasets of specialized catalogs, the use of open formats and the need to consider open data projects in the cycle of information in organizations. Open data is a source of innovation and new business models that requires efficient mechanisms for locating datasets and tools to access and reuse them.

Abstract

The relationship between information technologies and information professionals is becoming more complex in an environment in which, for the first time, standards and legislation are ahead of implementation and there are many hidden commercial interests. One example is the workshop on open document formats organized by the EU. Confrontation between ODF (ISO 26300) and Microsoft’s attempt to convert Ooxml into an open format through ISO was widely debated, but there was little discussion about practical solutions. Adobe’s strategy, opening its formats when free applications are in use, has proved successful.