Provision of Open Cultural Data (GR0018)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Greece Second Action Plan for 2014-2016
Action Plan Cycle: 2014
Status:
Institutions
Lead Institution: Ministry of Culture and Sports
Support Institution(s): NA
Policy Areas
Access to Information, Open DataIRM Review
IRM Report: Greece End-of-Term Report 2014-2016, Greece 2014-2015 Progress Report
Early Results: Did Not Change
Design i
Verifiable: Yes
Relevant to OGP Values: Yes
Ambition (see definition): High
Implementation i
Description
The Ministry of Culture and Sports, as well as supervised public bodies, are going to publish cultural data that falls within the definitions of public information of Directive 2013/37/EU. These data sets will be provided for re-use by citizens, academic institutes and enterprises in order to contribute to the development of the national cultural product.
IRM End of Term Status Summary
Commitment 2.5. Open cultural data
Commitment Text:
The Ministry of Culture and Sports, as well as supervised public bodies, are going to publish cultural data that falls within the definitions of public information of Directive 2013/37/EU. These data sets are to be provided for re-use by citizens, academic institutes and enterprises in order to contribute to the development of the national cultural product.
Milestones –Timescales
• 2.5.1 Amendment of the legal framework and more specifically of Law 3448/2006 with the adoption of new regulatory acts. Also modifications (where necessary) on ministerial decisions regarding the provision of cultural content of Law 3028/2002. This will lead to further amendments for the sectorial – sectoral legislation (completion by the end of 2015)
• 2.5.2 Completion of the National Digital Archaeological Cadastral Registry which will make possible the publication of the cultural data (completion by the end of 2015)
• 2.5.3 Implementation of interoperability services for the re-usability of cultural data from third party bodies, academic institutions and individuals (completion by the end of June 2016)
Responsible institution: The Ministry of Culture and Sports
Supporting institution(s): None
Start date: 2015 End date: June 2016
Commitment Aim:
Opening cultural data to the public is a goal within the broader national policy of increasing access to information. This commitment deals with opening data in the cultural sector according to definitions of public information in Directive 2013/37/EU. Providing open cultural datasets will help stakeholders follow public affairs in relevant policy areas, such as archaeological property, and enable the development of applications and electronic services. To achieve these goals, the commitment offers regulatory amendments, the completion of the National Digital Archaeological Cadastral Registry and interoperability services to allow reusability of data from interested third parties.
Status
Midterm: Limited
Overall, progress in the implementation of this commitment was limited by the midterm review. The government had not yet introduced legal framework amendments, completed the National Digital Archaeological Cadastral Registry, nor implemented interoperability services.
End of term: Limited
According to the government self-reporting table included in the third NAP, the implementation of the open cultural data commitment has stalled. The Openwise IRM research team found an announcement on the Ministry of Culture’s Archaeo Cadastre webpage stating that the website will expire due to the pending announcement of a new website.[Note 17: See Archaeological Cadastre, trans. Google, accessed 3 Nov. 2016, http://archaeocadastre.culture.gr/el/. “We inform all interested parties that this website will be discontinued in view of the forthcoming entry into operation of the portal of the Archaeological Lands on the web address of which will be an announcement.” ]
Did it open government?
Access to information: Did not change
Opening up cultural data sets is part of the wider national policy regarding the “open by default” character of public data. Releasing such datasets could have had a positive effect for stakeholders and individual citizens who, for instance, need to be informed if their property lies next to an archaeological site. The two-year implementation period of this commitment did not produce any meaningful change in the availability of cultural data. There is no public announcement when to expect the new website. Finally, a search for Ministry of Culture datasets in the central data.gov.gr platform returns no results.[Note 18: See “No datasets found for "ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ," data.gov.gr, http://data.gov.gr/dataset?q=%CE%A5%CE%A0%CE%9F%CE%A5%CE%A1%CE%93%CE%95%CE%99%CE%9F+%CE%A0%CE%9F%CE%9B%CE%99%CE%A4%CE%99%CE%A3%CE%9C%CE%9F%CE%A5. ]
Carried forward?
The third Greek NAP includes open provision of cultural data as Commitment 11. The new commitment reflects the pre-existing one and seeks the same goals: the availability of the National Archaeological Cadastre and the implementation of interoperability services that facilitate data reuse. However, although the government mentioned a legal amendment in the initial description of the new commitment text, no such amendment is included as a milestone. As legal amendments have an important role in establishing procedures for the availability of cultural data, The Openwise IRM research team suggest including them as a milestone.