Resources
Whether you're a developer, competition organiser or data publisher, the Apps for Europe partners have gathered helpful resources that can support you in creating open data events, stimulating the community and promoting success stories.
All the documents on this site are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Guidelines for organisers of Apps challenges
- If you are organising an app competition or challenge, there are many things that you need to think of. We have put some guidelines together to help you make the most of your challenge!
- Find more details on Contest and Criteria Planning, Pitch and Prize Ceremony and a Technical Toolset for Open Data Competitions.
- We have created an Event Kit which includes materials for workshops, bar camps and marketplaces.
- We set up a guide for the Apps for Europe wordpress plug-in we created; use it to create your own website for your local app competition.
- To further assist you we have created a Technical toolset for Open Data competitions.
- Here are the lessons learned from the Amsterdam hackathon and Press handling recommendations
- To support people that are using your data, you may be interested in our guidelines for data reusers, which you are free to repurpose on your own website if you credit the Apps for Europe consortium and apply the same Creative Commons licence.
- Find some more useful information in our Press Kit, Design Template and how to create a Project Website and Blog.
Guidelines for data publishers
- We have created licensing guidelines for organisations interested in publishing data.
- There are also guidelines that address more broadly how publishers can encourage uptake and engage with the community of users of the data.
Business Models
- If you are interested in models for how to sustainably build on top of open data, we recommend our guide on business models. It discusses real-world applications and shows how companies and individual developers have built applications using open data.
Europeana Labs
Europeana Labs (labs.europeana.eu) is a virtual playground for remixing and using over 30 million digital records from Europe’s libraries, museums, galleries and archives. On Europeana Labs you can:
- Discover sample datasets available on Europeana.eu and explore the underlying API queries to access them
- Be inspired by the extensive range of apps that others have already created using Europeana data and API
- Register for a Europeana API key, read in depth documentation and experiment on our API console
- See the latest news, case studies, and get hints and tips on our blog
- Find out about forthcoming events where you can get hands-on support
Civic Toolkits
- City SDK is creating a toolkit for the development of digital services within cities. The toolkit comprises of open and interoperable digital service interfaces as well as processes, guidelines and usability standards. CitySDK enables a more efficient utilisation of the expertise and know-how of developer communities to be applied in city service development.
- Europe Commons is a catalogue of civic software and services across Europe that help governments work better. By capturing applications and information about how and where they’ve been deployed, and with what impact, we want to encourage greater collaboration and reuse of civic solutions. This includes tools to support public service delivery, apps/services built on government APIs or initiatives piloted with a local authority and created by others.
Guidelines for policymakers, developers and innovative thinkers
- We have documented our Dissemination Plan which outlines our dissemination strategy, activities and tools. We aim to communicate our method and its value to extended networks across Europe and to use the project to build a wider network to support the scaling of apps and tools turning Europe’s public sector information/open data into businesses.
Official Apps for Europe deliverables
- D2.2 Contest criteria and planning
- D2.4 Pitch and prize ceremony
- D4.1 Recommendations on business and policy
- D4.2 Guidelines for reusers
- D4.3 Licencing guidelines for data owners
- D4.4 Presskit (plus attachments)
- D4.5 Technical toolkit for open data competitions
- D4.6 Guidelines for organizers of app challenges
- D4.7 Guidelines for data owners and data publishers
- D4.8 Design template
- D5.1 Dissemination plan
- D5.2 Project website and blog