GetLODGetLOD is a solution jointly designed

and developed by Planetek Italia and Sinergis during the development of the Geoportal of Emilia Romagna

Region

GetLOD: components

Protegè (OWL) Jena, Sesame (OWL/RDF) Silk (Interlinking)OGC-Server (Data access, WFS-CSW) J2EE (JAX-WS)CKAN (Catalogo dati open)Allegrograph (Triple Store - SPARQL) Sparallax (LOD Browser)

aPlanetek + Sinergis

production

The GetLOD StoryDr. ESCO and Mr. SPIRE about INSPIRE LOD data in next years

Good afternoon and nice to meet you, my name is Mr. SPIRE and I’m going to interview

you

Nice to meet you, my name is Dr. ESCO, I am

an Energy Savings Company …

… my business is to provide solutions to

reduce energy consumption of

households, offices and public buildings

Hmm … interesting!!How does it work?

Well, first of all I collect a lot of data related to

energy performance of buildings, I analyse them

…

… then I propose to owners some possible

solutions to reduce their energy consumption

and save money.

If the owner accept the proposal, I usually install smart meters to get real-time data and monitor the consumption of my

customers.

And what type of data do you usually

need?Are you also working

with geodata?

Of course. I usually need reference geodata like

buildings, addresses and cadastral parcels, …

… and specific properties of buildings like energy certificates,

electricity and gas consumption in recent

years, heating and cooling systems …

… and data about the context surrounding the buildings, like historical

weather conditions, solar radiation, district

heating, …

Ok … but how could GetLOD facilitate your

business?And how you get

benefit from INSPIRE?

Well … I spend a lot of time in searching and

retrieving local data from multiple sources.

Even if available as “open data”, many

times it is not easy to get them in a “single click”,

they are “hidden”, …

… they are not harmonised, and it is

always painful to have them really integrated.

It would be much easier if I could access inter-

Linked Open Data in one click only from multiple

sources!

Hmm … I don’t understand … could

you give me an example?

Sure!Imagine I want to get

data about a district in Reggio Emilia (Italy) …

… with “buildings” and “addresses” taken from

the municipal WFS ...

… and “energy certificates” taken from

the regional database …

… and photovoltaicarrays already mounted on roofs, taken from the

national service of Gestore ServiziEnergetici, …

… and gas/electricity consumption of building

units in 2012 and 2013 from the service

provided by the National Tax Agency

GetLOD could help the Local Administration to configure “ad hoc” downloads from different services (like WFS) and provide just the data I need already “interliked”

GetLOD could help the Local Administration to

configure “ad hoc” downloads from different

services (like WFS) and provide just the data I need

already “interliked”

This means that the local authority may

play as a sort of “broker”, able to connect multiple

download services and provide you …

… what exactly?

Well … I can get both simple “flat” shapefiles and RDF

XML-encoded data, together with metadata provided by

catalogue services, if available at source

This way you may access interlinked data

you need, available “on demand” and

navigate them in one click … right?

Exactly!And I save a lot of time, so I am able to produce a better proposal at a

lower cost.

Wow, this is very interesting … also

considering recent researchers, like the LOD4WFS recently

presented at AGILE …

http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/~j_jone02/publications/AGILE2014-LOD4WFS.pdf

Thanks a lot for this interesting talk,

Dr. ESCOThank you, Mr. SPIRE,

and see you next year at INSPIRE Conf

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