LOD2 Plenary Vienna 2012: WP9 publicdata.eu – Publishing Governmental Information as Linked Data

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WP 9 Use Case 3:
LOD2 for Citizen

LOD2 Plenary - State of PlayVienna, 21st March 2012

Publicdata.eu okfn.org ckan.org TheDataHub.org

Irina BolychevskyOpen Knowledge [email protected]

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We buildtoolsandcommunitiesto create, use and shareopen knowledge-contentanddatathateveryone can use, share and build on.

Aim toimprove governance, research and the economy.

Purpose of WP9

increase public access to high-value, machine-readable data sets generated by the European, national as well as regional governments and public administrations

Powered by CKAN

Current Tasks for WP9 (OKFN)

Task 9.1 Adaptation and Deployment of the LOD2 Stack for PublicData.eu (OKFN, NUIG, ULEI)Task 9.2 Personalization of PublicData.eu (OKFN, ULEI)Task 9.3 Development of Data Curation, Publication and Access Strategies for Governments and Public Administration Based on Open Standards and Linked Data Principles (OKFN, FUB, TenForce)Task 9.4 Publication of eGovernment Datasets (OKFN, FUB, SWCG, WKD)

Current Deliverables for WP9 (OKFN)

D9.3.1Guide and Best Practices Presentation M18

D9.1.1First Release of the PublicData.eu Website and Tools M20

D 9.3.2Guide and Best Practices Brochure M24

D 9.4Report about the Availability of eGovernment Datasets - M24

Best Practices Presentation & Brochure

Task 9.3:

develop a guide on data curation, publication and access strategies based on open standards and Linked Data principles.

D9.3.1 Guide and best practices presentationD9.3.2 Guide and best practices brochure

'identifier creation and selection

reuse of popular vocabularies

generating and maintaining links to other data sources

recipes for serving linked data from relational representations

testing and debugging open data sets

discovery of open data on the Web'

Detailed description of work

PublicData.eu Update

CKAN team working hard on additional features aimed at making data more accessible: - Data previews & visualization - Improvements to groups - Activity Steams - User & group profiles - Tag vocabularies

PublicData.eu has been upgraded to the latest version of CKAN

Harvesting fixed and re-run

Harvesting into PublicData.eu

UEP Czech CKAN: Results and Achievements

Data in the Czech CKAN: - 1608 data files in 167 packages - Data from web pages of ministries, Czech statistical office, regions and the City of Prague

Main topics: - Budgets - Labour market - Education - Grants

UEP Czech CKAN

In order to make use of the Czech CKAN easier we prepared: - CKAN usage methodology - CKAN quick start guide - Czech localization of the user interface

Triplification experiment: - 2 datasets from CKAN triplified - Structure of datasets modelled using UML class diagrams - Excel spreadsheets loaded into a PostgreSQL database and exported as RDF using D2R Server

Future steps for discussion in Break Out Session:

Further development of the methodologyTranslation of the methodology into EnglishKeep on translating CKAN into Czech

Communication and Events

Presented PublicData.eu & LOD2 at ePSI Conference 2012Open Government Data Camp in WarsawNew Linked Data page on CKAN wiki with notes & next steps: http://wiki.ckan.org/Linked_DataSkype meetups about CKAN & Linked Data17th November 2011: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/meetup-2011-11-172nd February 2012: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/meetup-2012-02-02LOD2 / CKAN integration call: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/LOD2-integrationDatacatalogs.org now has 216 registered catalogs and 17 curated groups

OKFN: Future ideas for breakout session discussion

Breakout session on Friday afternoon

Metadata and catalog standards & interoperability: want meetings, consensus, decisionsExtending the coverage of datacatalogs.orgReview CKAN + LOD2 meetings: integration, actions, progressFor publicdata.eu: - Fully multilingual capabilities: translation of search query terms, metadata translations using a vocabulary, consistent navigation within a language interface - Integration of LOD2 stack, greater linked data capabilities, RDF export - Update of Apps and Ideas. Possibly integrate ideas with GetTheData.org?

Irina BolychevskyOpen Knowledge [email protected]@shevski

Publicdata.eu okfn.org ckan.org TheDataHub.org

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