OKFN Greece meet-up Friday, April 6, 2012, 5:00 PM Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Research Dissemination Center Dr. Charalampos Bratsas, (OKFN Greece Local Group Coordinator) Greek Open Data and the OKFN Greece challenges

1. Greek Open Data current status
and the OKFN Greece challenges
Dr. Charalampos Bratsas
OKFN Greece Local Group Coordinator
Mathematics Department,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

2. Outline
• Timeline Evolution of The Web Open Data-
Content-Knowledge
• Greek Open Data Status
• OKFN Greece :Why and how
• 5 Star Open Data
• Linked Open Data in Greece
• Demonstration of Open Data value via OKFNs
applications and recently developed OKNF Greece
demos

3. Open Data and Web

4. Greek Open Data: The beginning
legal status
• Public Sector Information PSI (3448/2006)
from Directive (2003/98/EC)
• GeoData (3448/2010) From
INSPIRE(2007/2/EC)
• E-government (3979/2011)
– Citizen2Gov
– Gov2Gov
– OpenData
• Cl@rity (Di@vgeia) (3861/2010)

5. Greek GeoData
• The first effort to offer citizens geospatial data
existing in the wider public administration,
free of charge
• 180 datasets currently available online

6. Greek Open Data
http://geodata.gov.gr
Greece U.K U.S.A
Datasets 180 7.900 390.253
schools 1 637 3.060
museum 1 70 409
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7. Cl@rity Program (Δι@ύγεια)
• Public entities cannot implement decisions
before uploading them in the Clarity website
• Interested parties can search for acts and
decisions using keywords and thematic meta-data
• Achieves maximum publicity of government
policy and administrative activities
• Ensures transparency and accountability on the
part of institutions exercising public authority
• Published acts (as of March 2012): 3.927.251

8. OKFN Greece: WHY
Open knowledge can
– Offer a transparent and accountable way to prevent
corruption and monitor funding in Greece
– Provide easy access to extensive Greek cultural
heritage
– Help the community to absorb research results and
exploit them in educational and commercial activities
– Reinforce employment and economic growth based
on innovative tools and services around open data

9. OKFN Greece: HOW
Dissemination: Promote the Development: Build new or
idea of open data and open reuse the OKFN applications
knowledge to demonstrate the value of
• Organize meet-ups and Open Data
build communities • Create linked open data,
• Reach people through by upgrading existing
social media public datasets
• Participate in public • Create software and
consultation services that use existing
linked open data
• Involve in relevant
research projects

10. Open Data Handbook
The Open Data Handbook introduces the legal,
social and technical aspects of open data.
Now available in Greek language by Anastasia
Dimou, Charalampos Bratsas

11. 1st OKFN Greece short meet-up, (10/2/2012)
Results
CKAN Marathon: managed to increase the Greek
Open data in CKAN from 5 to 57 datasets

13. 1st OKFN Greece meet-up (10/2/2012)
Outcomes
CKAN Marathon: going from 5 to 57 datasets
Greek public open data assessment: 2-3 stars.
(through results from research projects carried out by
students of the Webscience Master Program of Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki)

14. 5 star open Data
★ make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license
★★ make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)
★★★★ use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide context
The more stars a dataset has, the more
value and benefits it has to offer when
used in applications.

17. OKFN Cl@rity Open Spending
Where does Greek money go?
OpenSpending allows users to explore, structure and map different kinds of public
finance from all around the world –and now from Greece-.

18. Greek LOD - Cl@rity Open Spending
A tree map representation of expenses of the various public
entities : Municipalities, Prefectures, Ministries, Hospitals,
Funds, Organizations, Institutes, Universities etc.

19. Greek LOD – Cl@rity & Police Viz
visual representation comparison graph between the criminality measures
and the police funding per region

20. Greek LOD Application
Greek DBpedia Game Based Learning
The quizzes are automatically generated from Greek Wikipedia’s data
using the Greek DBpedia.

21. KEEP WALKING
KEEP WALKING ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY
KEEP WALKING OKFN