Presentation at Share-PSI.eu Workshop held in Brussels, May 10th, 2011. Euroalert show case as a company that is creating value added services on top of public sector information (government contracts data) at a pan-eu level. Also presented at the 1st Digital Agenda Assembly 16th June ("01. Open data and re-use of public sector information" workshop)

1. Powered by opendata
Building a pan-European
platform to aggregate public
procurement data and deliver
commercial services for SMEs
powered by open data
Digital Agenda Assembly Jose L. Marín de la Iglesia
Brussels, 16 June 2011 http://twitter.com/jluismarin

2. How are we going to spend the next 7 m?
Talking Open Data
pan­EU approach to
deliver information services based on
government contracts data
Hashtags: #daa11psi #opendata

3. What is open data for?
Transparency
Helps citizens to make
better decisions
Create added-value
information products and
services

4. Companies powered by open data

5. What is Euroalert.net?
is a private held company who provides
value added information services related to pan-EU matters:
EU News
EU Funding
EU Law
Public procurement data

6. 10ders IS: Aggregating public contracts
Pan­European platform aggregating
public contracts in the EU
2155 B Euros
(17% EU GDP)
Users
Journals and Official Gazettes Associations
Procurement Platforms Authorities
Buyer profiles SMEs
Agencies
Deliver innovative and cost­effective products
& services for SMEs, to help them to increase
competitiveness in EU public markets

7. 10ders IS: Aggregating public contracts
The idea is simple...
...The challenge is huge!
Technical
Legal
Cultural

8. Adding value to public procurement data
Permanent
Official Machine-readable
Sources Timely
Primary
Licensed, reviewable
gathers, understands, indexes, enriches
API: opXML
searches, filters, mashes-up
ADDS VALUE
Re-packages, Distributes, Publishes
WEB WIDGETS PRODUCT
SERVICES WINNER
REPORTS GTW Users
Associations
SPARQL LISTS ALERTS CLOUD Pubic Authorities
ENDPOINT SMEs
Agencies

9. Automatic Publication: Widgets & WS
Creating more useful websites to attract new
users with customized contents which are
updated automatically in a very cost-effective way
Bringing information
from official sources
closer to users, so they
can reach the relevant
contents with less number
of clicks
Releasing resources from
tracking official references,
so they can be allocated to
other tasks which involve
higher value for their public

10. Alerts with contract opportunities and awards
Wide range of criteria:
different countries, more
than 9000 different CPV
product codes, keywords,
types of announcement,
etc.
The best available tender
search technology,
combined with our
expert advice

11. Data mining for Market intelligence
Product Reports
Is your distributor in France, Germany or the UK
taking advantage of procurement opportunities in those
countries and bidding with your products or services?
Which are the companies that win more contracts
selling similar or complementary products in their local
markets or in other countries?
Which are the characteristics of the products and
services your competitors are offering in other
countries?
Which one would be your best business partner to
distribute your products abroad?
Lists of contract winners

12. Some 2010 figures: data managed
Over 425.000 documents
Over 400.000 M€ in public contracts
Nearly 500.000 contract awards
Over 9.000 legal pieces
Over 40.000 contracting authorities
Over 100.000 new awarded companies
Operating database of 160 GB + 10 GB metadata
Clients in 15 countries

13. Business model(s)
Subsidized Certification
Subscription Traffic generation
Advertising Differentiation
Transformation Apps Sale

14. Some Clients who trust Euroalert

15. Main challenges
Technical
Not unified data structures
Storing big data
Multiple languages
Fragmentation in thousands of sources
Legal
Licensing
Business model(s)
Inexpensive Conflict Resolution
Cultural
Open data awareness among Authorities

16. Our real challenge
Unlocking the data
NOT the right
approach

17. Euroalert approach to unlocking data
Formal request addressed to data holder
Sometimes presentation of the objectives
License agreement signature
and sometimes complaint placement :(
Data re-use of new source within 10ders IS
Upgrade of current products

18. What does Euroalert suggest to data holders?
No need to invest much at first
Any data structure is ok if it's slightly documented
Update timely according to reliable criteria
License for commercial exploitation
Automatic download (URIs, API, WS, even email attach)
Release whatever format is convenient,
later on you can improve
Machine readable – RAW DATA – Any format is OK
PDF or HTML is not enough
Re-users will invest if there's value

19. translated to Sir Tim's 5-star ranking
Available on the web (open license)
Machine-readable data
Non-proprietary format
Use open standards from W3C
Linked to other people's data
You can earn your stars later on!

20. The take-away
RAW Data is enough
Not enough useful open data released
Conflict resolution - ShowMeTheTenders.net
Still experimenting with business model(s)
Standardization should to play a role
Spend wise – re-susers will invest
ROI will be awesome!

21. License for these slides
Jose L. Marín de la Iglesia
http://twitter.com/jluismarin
aportamosvalor
June 2011