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Annual Information Seminar for the DGs of the European Commission and other EU institutions

Luxembourg

5-6 November 2019

Agenda

 

Room MER 481

9.00 - 9.30 Registration (at Reception) and coffee (4th floor)
      9.30       Welcome
Rudolf Strohmeier
      9.40       Is my publication accessible?
Just because something seems to have structure and be well organised, does not mean that it is actually accessible. Find out what to check in your file and what to bear in mind when you start preparing content for accessible publications.
Mare Maxwell
      10.00       Turn the page: Go mobile. Use multimedia
Learn about the wide range of multimedia services we provide, from visualisations to the creation and publishing of mobile apps or interactive HTML publications. Understand too how to plan a multimedia publication.
Pal Jancsok
      10.20       Language editing services that do more than “dot the i’s and cross the t’s”
Get a good grasp of your language editing services and their added value in 24-language production chain.
Dana Andreica Molnar
10.40 - 11.00 Coffee break
      11.00       Publications Office portal – Your entry point to EU information
Learn about the portal of the Publications Office, from EU Publications, the EU Whosiwho and EU Vocabularies to the benefits of widgets, plus the new URL of the Portal.
Christine Koenig
      11.20       Surveys to serve you
Find out how we can assist you to conduct and analyse surveys and learn about the new survey contract.
Ludovic Foigne
      11.40       Reach your audiences with our distribution services
Take advantage of our know-how. Paper is here to stay, but find out from us how to keep your stock under control with sound stock management.
Anton Zagar
      12.00       Break silos and fully enter the digital age!
Our IT applications, systems and websites build on the use of ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri and authority lists. Come and join this technical and organisational transition, which will optimise the sharing of technologies, improve access to information and pave the way for the successful implementation of artificial intelligence.
Aniko Gerencser
12.20 - 14.00 Finger buffet lunch (4th floor)
      14.00       OP’s web archiving services: what’s in it for you
Find out what to do and when to make sure the content on your websites doesn’t get lost, even if it is no longer available on the website.
Els Breedstraet
      14.20       The EC Decision on Creative Commons and its impact to publications
With Creative Commons now the default licence for making publications available to the public, find out about the main implications for you.
José Antonio Domínguez Rojas and Marcela Kuba
      14.50       Study on the Review of European Commission publication for citizens
DG COMM will soon launch a 1-year study to review how publications of the European Commission targeting citizens meet communication priorities and citizen needs.
Benjamin Hagard (DG COMM)

Salle Polyvalente (ground floor)

      15.15       OPEN FORUM – Circulate among the various stands and talk with OP colleagues
  • Promoting your publications through OP channels
  • First steps for general publications
  • Metadata and identification
  • Language editing
  • Editorial support services
  • The Interinstitutional Style Guide
  • Surveys and mailing lists
  • Distribution
  • Copyright issues
  Meet & Greet – Bilateral meetings with OP colleagues can be arranged on demand, on the following themes
  • Physical archive, electronic archive, web archive, digitalisation service
  • Financial procedures for the publications
      16.30       Cocktail (canteen)

Room MER 481

9.00 - 9.30 Coffee (4th floor)
      9.30       EU Publications analytics – new service for EU institutions
Learn about our self-service Web analytics dashboard to consult how your publications are being consumed and compare performance with DGs and institutions.
Sergio Leal
  OPEN DATA SESSION
      10.00       Open data policy and governance in the EC
EC wants to become data-driven organization. Learn about open data policy and governance and how it can impact your work and management of data assets.
Agnieszka Zając
      10.30       EC data inventory and EU Open Data Portal
Part of the Data4Policy action plan is the creation of catalogue of data assets. The inventory of data is the first step in this direction. We will show you the first results and what you can expect in the near future.
Corina Buruiana and Inma Farfan Velasco
      11.00       EU citation styles
EU Institutions are citing their content and creating references in a multitude of ways. We conducted a study in order to come up with recommendations for a EU citation style. The next steps will be the adaptation of the EU inter-institutional style guide and a creation of an on-line tool allowing for automatic creation of citations.
Nataliya Rozbroj Jasinskaya
      11.30       EU Datathon 2019 and 2020
The reuse of EU open data is at the heart of our activities. Since 3 years we organize a competition that gathers apps developers and shows the potential of public data. We will show you the amazing results that can be created in just a couple of months, applying cutting edge technologies and adapted to the needs of the society.
Simon Steuer
      12.00       EU DataViz conference, internal workshop and trainings
Making available huge amount of data is often not sufficient. Data visualisation helps to make sense of them and communicate them effectively. To strengthen EU capacity in this domain we organize a conference for the public sector in Europe (DataViz) on 12 November which will be followed by a workshop for EU Institutions on 13 Nov. A package of material from data visualisation trainings and webinars organized in 2019 is also available for you on EU ODP knowledge centre.
Beatriz Fernandez Nebreda
      12.30       Close
Cecile Adam
      12.45       End of the seminar
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch (possibility to have lunch in the canteen)