Linked open data a priority for Flanders’ new Agency for Information
One of the first tasks for Flanders’ newly created Agency for Information (Agentschap Informatie Vlaanderen) will be to promote the use of open data standards by public administrations in the Belgian region. The agency is to align existing and future business processes involving open data and will advance the use of European linked open data standards. The agency’s long-term vision is to support the European Commission’s actions on spatial data infrastructure standards (INSPIRE) and on semantic interoperability for eGovernment systems - one of the actions of the EC’s ISA programme. (ISA is also responsible for the Joinup platform.)
The Agentschap Informatie Vlaanderen will officially start on 1 January. The organisation merges Flander’s Agency for Geographical Information (AGIV), Infoline (1700), the eGovernment coordination unit (Corve) and several services from the Chancellery and Governance Department (DKB).
In a statement, the Flemish ICT Organisation (V-ICT-OR) says it is looking forward to the new agency’s actions on open data standards. V-ICT-OR is one of the organisations involved in the creation of the new agency. “(We) will work together with the agency to further the exchange of public administration information”, V-ICT-OR writes.
More information:
V-ICT-OR announcement (in Dutch)
OSLO (Open Standards Linked Authorities) (in Dutch)
Conference previewing Flander’s new Agency for Information (in Dutch)