Presentation at the Open Government Data Workshop of Informatik 2013, Koblenz

1. Danube University Krems.
The University for Continuing Education.
Open Government Data

2. Department for E-Governance
Department for E-Governance
Danube University Krems. The University for Continuing Education.
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Agenda
• Open Government Data in Austria
Organisational Setting & Reusable Patterns
• Evaluation of Open Government Data Portal Vienna
Lessons Learned and Take aways
• Collaboration towards a unified OGD ecosystem
DACH-area and European perspective
• Prospect for future research

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Danube University Krems. The University for Continuing Education.
1. OGD in Austria - History
1. Public urge
– Started 2009 by Citizen Democracy Interest groups
(eg. meinparlament.at, Open3.at)
– Approaching administration through City of Vienna public funded
research project opendata.at
– Bottom-up initiatives by scraping existing
public data sets
2. Administrative response
– Public discussion started spring 2011 by City of Linz (“CC-region”)
– Inception of Cooperation OGD Austria summer 2010
– Fall 2011: City of Vienna pioneers first government-driven
OGD portal
– Spring 2012: data.gv.at
– Today: 898 datasets by 20 organisations of every federal level

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1. OGD in Austria – Reusable patterns
• Steering committee Cooperation OGD Austria
– Ad-hoc and informal collaboration of public administration entities
– Sub-working groups including public (academia, business, NGOs);
“Collaboration of the eager and aware”
– ~ 4 meetings a year to approve work by – or assign tasks to – sub
working groups
• Metadata description
– Influenced by DCAT & INSPIRE, fully compatible to DCAT-AP
– Version 2.1 stable since spring 2012
– Coordinated with OGD Germany and Switzerland

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1. OGD in Austria - Principles
1. “Legal”
– Provision: A dataset is an OGD dataset if it is released on an official data portal,
using CC-BY-license and described by an agreed meta data description
– Ongoing: Liability concerns
2. Organisational
– Cooperation OGD Austria steering committee, organized in working groups with
focus-topics (meta data, business needs, content federation)
– No regulatory power, though directly advising public administration and “BLSG”-
working group
3. Technical
– CKAN repository (minimal adaptions to be released as OS)
– 3-stars according to TBL-taxonomy
– Meta data description heavily influenced by international standards and good
practice
– Linked data: ongoing topic

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2. Evaluation of OGD Portal Vienna
• What: Report appointed by the CIO of the City of Vienna
• Who: External (Citizen, Business, Academia, Journalists) and
internal (Vienna city departments) stakeholders
• How: online questionnaire and face-to-face interviews,
comparative text analysis, desk research
• Timeframe: Summer 2012
• Outcome:
– Extended executive summary released as CC-BY, results published to
journal (on review)
http://data.wien.gv.at/neuigkeiten/wege/mut-zu-neuen-wegen.html
– Roadmap 2013

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2. Evaluation of OGD Portal Vienna – Key findings
• Good
– Unambiguous organisational setting
– Reusing what is available (CMS instead CKAN)
• Fair
– OGD public relations
– Funding schemes take OGD into account
• Room for improvement
– Besides GIS, no backend integration
– Not integrated in Open Government initiatives

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2. Evaluation of OGD Portal Vienna – Take away
• Create a clear content and communication strategy
• Know your stakeholders; integrate their opinionated
leaders, listen, solve, reward
• Embrace openness as the default; Results of publicly
funded projects may be released as CC by default
• Understand the platform idea; Channel forces and integrate
Initiatives
• Proper information management is the basis for
Linked Open Data, Big Data
• Evolute rather than revolute

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3. Combining OGD endeavours
• Mostly harmonized Meta data description between Austria
and Germany
• Switzerland uses the Austrian Meta data description
• Active contribution to the ISA DCAT-AP working group
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/d
escription

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3. Combining OGD endeavours – Mapping AT  DE
• DE & AT Metadata descriptions are freely available,
DE:http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/fraunhoferfokus/og
d-metadata/blob/master/OGPD_JSON_Schema.html
AT:http://reference.e-government.gv.at/uploads/media/OGD-
Metadaten_2_1_2012_10.pdf
• Mapping possible with high consistency, but not entirely automatic

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3. Combining OGD endeavours – Mapping AT  DE

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3. Combining OGD endeavours – Mapping AT  DE

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3. Combining OGD endeavours: DCAT-AP (Intermission)
• DCAT-AP IS
– A specification, which relies on DCAT
– Appointed by ISA as a call for tenders
• DCAT-AP CAN
– Describe Metadata fields and supporting infrastructure
(eg. a data portal)
• DCAT-AP will become
– The meta data format of the European Open Data portal

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3. Combining OGD endeavours: Active support of DCAT-AP
Austrian meta data recommendation maps lossless to DCAT-AP
Name [DE] ID CKAN-ID Cardinality Controled Vocabulary Required / Optional Property Cardinality Occurrence
Catalog:dataset N M
Catalog:description N M
Catalog:license 1 M
Catalog:publisher 1 M
Catalog:title N M
Eindeutiger Identifikator metadata_identifier extras:metadata_identifier 1 dcterms:identifier R Dataset:identifier N O
Datum des Metadatensatzes metadata_modified extras:metadata_modified 1 dcterms:issued R CatalogRecord:update/modification date 1 M
Titel des Metadatensatzes title title 1 dcterms:title (mit language tag "de") R Dataset:title N M
Beschreibung description notes 1 dcterms:abstract R Dataset:description N M
Kategorie categorization extras:categorization[“…“,“…“] N dcat:theme R Dataset:theme/category;Maybe Category:preferred label N R
Schlagworte keywords tags N dcat:keyword R Dataset:keyword/tag N R
Datensatz oder Dienst Link resource_url resources:url N dcat:accessURL R Distribution:download URL N O
Datensatz oder Dienst Format resource_format resources:format N dcterms:format R Distribution:format, Distribution:media type 1 O
Datenverantwortliche Stelle maintainer maintainer 1 dcelements:creator R Agent:name N M
Lizenz license license 1 dcterms:license (sollte URI des Lizenzdokuments sein) R Distribution:license; Maybe License Document:license type 1 M
Zeitliche Ausdehnung (Anfang) begin_datetime extras:begin_datetime 1 dcterms:temporal R ~ Dataset:temporal coverage N O
Datensatz oder Dienst Bezeichner resource_name resources:name N rdfs:literal O Distribution:title N O
Bezeichnung der Metadatenstruktur schema_name extras:schema_name 1 dcterms:alternative O Implicitly by vocabulary URI
Sprache des Metadatensatzes schema_language extras:schema_language 1 dcterms:language O There is no equivalent in DCAT-AP, however it can be implicitly modelled using RDF
Character Set Code des Metadatensatzes schema_characterset extras:schema_characterset 1 cnt:characterEncoding O
Weiterführende Metadaten metadata_linkage extras:metadata_linkage N dcat:dataDictionary O Distribution:access URL N M
Attributbeschreibung attribute_description extras:attribute_description 1 dcterms:description O
Kontaktseite der datenverantwortlichen Stelle maintainer_link extras:maintainer_link 1 dcterms:creator O Dataset:contact point N R
Datensatz oder Dienst Veröffentlichungsdatum resource_created resources:created 1 dcterms:issued O Dataset:release date 1 O
Datensatz oder Dienst Änderungsdatum resource_lastmodified resources:last_modified 1 dcterms:modified O Dataset:update/modification date 1 O
Veröffentlichende Stelle publisher extras:publisher 1 dcelements:publisher O Dataset:publisher 1 M
Geographische Abdeckung/Lage geographic_toponym extras:geographic_toponym 1 dcterms:description O Dataset:geographical coverage N O
Geographische Ausdehnung geographic_bbox extras:geographic_bbox 1 dcterms:spatial O Dataset:geographical coverage N O
Zeitliche Ausdehnung (Ende) end_datetime extras:end_datetime 1 dcterms:temporal O ~ Dataset:temporal coverage N O
Aktualisierungszyklus update_frequency extras:update_frequency 1 dcterms:accrualPeriodicity O Dataset:frequency 1 O
Datenqualität/Herkunft lineage_quality extras:lineage_quality 1 dcat:dataQuality O
Titel und Beschreibung Englisch en_title_and_desc extras:en_title_and_desc 1 dcterms:abstract (mit language tag "en") O Dataset:title, Dataset:description using RDF literal language annotation “EN”
Größe des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_size resources:size 1 dcat:bytes O Distribution:byteSize 1 O
Lizenz Zitat license_citation extras:license_citation 1 cc:attributionName O
Sprache des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_language resources:language 1 dcterms:language O Dataset:language N O
Character Set Code des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_encoding resources:characterset 1 cnt:characterEncoding O
Cooperation OGD Österreich Metadata Description DCAT-AP V0.0.6

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4. The Next Generation - Prospect for future research
• Evaluate existing OGD implementations
• Integrate
– OGD as an integral part of Open Government
– OGD into government information flow
• Broaden scope of OGD towards OD and assure
interoperability, usability and applicability
• Examine the role of O(G)D as a key information source of
the Smart City / Smart Region
• Identify missing expertise towards large-scale OGD uptake

16. Deadline for the submission of papers,
workshop proposals, reflections:
6. December 2013
Notification of acceptance
7. February 2014
Camera-ready paper submission
28 February 2014
Conference
21. - 23. May 2014
• Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation
• E-Democracy and E-Participation
• E-Voting
• Bottom-Up Movements
• Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration
• Open Collaborative Government
• Democracy, Globalization and Migration
• Connected Smart City
• Technology and Architecture
• Self-governance in Complex Networks
• Rethinking Information Visualization for the
• People
• Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies
• Design and Co-creation for E-democracy
• PhD Colloquium
Important Deadlines