Opportunities and Challenges for Opening up Government Data in Macedonia

Opportunities and Challenges for
Opening up Government Data in
Macedonia

Prof. d-r Dimitar Trajanov
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FINKI)
21 .03.2012, Skopje, Macedonia

www.finki.ukim.mk www.facebook.com/FINKI.ukim.mk www.twitter.com/FINKIedu

Agenda
o Introduction
• Open Data, Linked Data and Semantic Web
o Open data in Macedonia
o What we have done @FINKI
o Next steps
o Conclusions


Today’s Web

• Suitable for human
consumption
• Markup consists of:
– rendering information
(e.g., font size and colour)
– Hyper-links to related content

• Semantic content is
accessible to
humans, but not (easily)
to computers…

Open Data
and document formats
o e-Paper formats (easily human readable)
• Text data
• PDF
• HTML
o Raw data (human readable and computer can read)
• XML data
• Excel files
• CSV
o Semantic WEB (easily readable by computers)
• RDF
• OWL
• microformat

The Web IS the Database!
Application A Application B


Linked Open Data Cloud
(2011)


Open Data vs Linked Data
o Open data is the data on the site is available to the public, but it
doesn't link to other data sources on the Web.
• It could be data that has been uploaded in CSV format (i.e. spreadsheet data)
o Linked Data is a 'web of data.'
• The idea of Open Data is to turn it into Linked Data
• The first priority is to publish lots of Open Data.
• The next step is to work towards linking it all up.
• Data.gov.uk is currently a combination of Open Data and Linked Data


State Institution IT stage
o No information systems in place
• Data is in Word documents

o There is an information system but no data is published

o Well developed information system with large amount of
published data


Open Data in Macedonia


FINKI open data
SPARQL end point


FINKI Open Data
o The Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering joins the
trend by making parts of its data available as open data.
o Information about all the faculties in our university such as
names, addresses, phones, email and web pages.
o We publish more information about our Faculty - Institutes,
Modules, Programs, Courses, Subjects and Employees.

o Implemented using available tools


System architecture


The ontology reuse and
Linked Data
o The database tables and properties annotated with existing ontologies. Only the
data that is annotated is displayed.


Open data portal


Open Data Portal


Open Data Portal
Architecture and technologies

ASP .NET
- DotNetRDF
- AllegroGraph
- Sesame
- Virtuoso
- ReDeFer
- RDF Validator


Semantic Sky
Enterprise Open Data
Sparql
Endpoint

Semantic Sky Resource
Retrieval Ontology
Desktop-client

Cloud
Semantic Sky Service 1

Cloud plug-in Cloud
Service 2
Action Invocation

Cloud
Browser Plug-in
Service 3

Open Data Team @ FINKI
o Prof. d-r Dimitar Trajanov
o m-r Milos Jovanovik, PhD Candidate
o m-r Riste Stojanov, PhD Candidate
o m-r Vladimir Zdraveski, PhD Candidate
o Petar Ristoski, M.Sc. student
o Marjan Georgiev, M.Sc. student
o Martin Kostovski, M.Sc. student
o Martin Mitrevski, B.Sc. student


How to proceed
o Create Open Data Portal (data.gov.mk)
• Develop clear security guidelines
• Move the existing data sets to data.gov.mk
o Create and publish data sets useful for larger population and
crate mobile and web applications
o Start publishing row data
o Build new systems with automatic data publishing option


Publishers benefits form
open data
o More new and innovative applications
o Users engagement
o More happy users
o Economic growth


Conclusion
o We need to change our minds
• To provide a means of computers to help us
o The technology is here
• We lack data.
• Additional effort is needed to publish data in computer readable format
o There is good foundation for open data in Macedonia
• @FINKI have research group deeply involved in Semantic Web and Open Data
• Many institutions already have high quality data in digital format
o We should strive to Web 3.0 (Semantic web)
• web of data


THANK YOU !!!

http://www.finki.ukim.mk/
dimitar.trajanov@finki.ukim.mk


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