[LINK] Australian Principles on Open Public Sector Information

[Tom Worthington]

The Australian Information Commissioner, Professor John McMillan AO, 
will formally launch the "Australian Principles on Open Public Sector 
Information" in Canberra on 25 May 2011. The draft is at: 
<http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/issues_paper1_towards_an_australian_government_information_policy.html>.

This will be during the Meta 2011 Conference: 
<http://www.metalounge.org/meta-2011-conference>.

I have been teaching the draft principles to students in the ANU course 
COMP7420 <http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7420/> and am speaking along 
with with Senator Lundy at the conference the next day on "Designing for 
Democratic Dialogue".

Other speakers who may be of interest include:

* Tom Scott, BBC Publishing (UK)
* Greg Stone, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Australia
* Chris Winter, ABC Multimedia

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     13 May 2011
     Information Commissioner to launch
     “The Principles on Open Public Sector Information” at Meta 2011

     The Institute of Metadata Management is delighted to announce that 
the Australian Information Commissioner, Professor John McMillan, will 
be formally launching the Principles on Open Public Sector Information 
at Meta 2011 to be held at University House, ANU, Canberra, from 
Wednesday 25th May 2011 to Friday 27th May, 2011.

     “The Open Public Sector Information Principles present a core 
vision for government information management in Australia. They mark a 
shift in thinking about public sector information. There is now greater 
recognition that government information is a national resource that 
should be published for community access and use,” Professor McMillan said.

     “The Principles set out the central values of open public sector 
information: that it be freely available, based on open standards, 
easily discoverable, understandable, machine-readable, and freely 
reusable and transformable.” As well as the formal launch there will be 
a practical demonstration of the benefits of the Principles in a 
workshop jointly facilitated by the Commissioner’s Office and linked 
data experts, Dr Armin Haller from the CSIRO and Dr Tudor Groza from the 
University of Queensland. This workshop will clearly show how, by 
adopting best practice in the publication of data according to the 
Principles, the power of linked data and semantic technologies can be 
leveraged to provide new insights and business intelligence for 
government, business and the community.

     IMM President Mel Taylor is delighted with the collaboration 
between the IMM and the OAIC as it demonstrates the joint objectives of 
promoting both the capability and expertise around better information 
management within the Australian government and, in particular the 
Metadata community of practice more broadly.

     Meta2011 is the fourth conference to be held in Australia and is 
themed Business Realities and Implications. The 3 days conference will 
cover topics such as Business intelligence and analytics; Technology 
solutions; Data integration; Management, governance and stewardship and 
more.

     By attending this conference, delegates are expected to go away 
with knowledge which can be shared and implemented in their businesses. 
Registration is still open and there are a range of sponsorship 
opportunities available. Contact us here to find out how to be part of 
the IMM community.
     For more information related to IMM and Meta2011 please visit 
http://www.metalounge.org
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Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The
Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/
Visiting Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre: http://bit.ly/csiro_ict_canberra