State of Play presentation at the LOD2 Plenary Vienna 2012: WP9 publicdata.eu – Publishing Governmental Information as Linked Data by Irena Irina Bolychevsky, OKFN

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WP 9 – Use Case 3:
LOD2 for Citizen
Irina Bolychevsky
Open Knowledge Foundation
Irina.bolychevsky@okfn.org
LOD2 Plenary - S tate of Play
Vienna, 21st March 2012
Publicdata.eu okfn.org ckan.org TheDataHub.org ://lod 2.e u
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The Open Knowledge Foundation
A not-for-profit organisation promoting openness in all its
forms.
Progress through community engagement - organise events
to bring people together.
We have projects and partnerships throughout the world,
especially in Europe.
We build tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge - content and data that every
Aim to improve governance, research and the economy.
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P r o eo W 9
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“increase public access to high-value, machine-readable
data sets generated by the European, national as well as
regional governments and public administrations”
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Powered by CKAN
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Cu r n T s sf rW 9( F
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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)
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Cu r n De iv r b e f rW 9( F
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D 9.3.1 Guide and Best Practices Presentation – M18
D 9.1.1 First Release of the PublicData.eu Website and Tools – M20
D 9.3.2 Guide and Best Practices Brochure – M24
D 9.4 Report about the Availability of eGovernment Datasets - M24
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B s P a t e P e e t t n&B o h r
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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 presentation
D9.3.2 – 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
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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
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H r e t gin oP b ic t .e
a v s in t u l Da a u
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U P– Cz c CK N: R s l sa dA h v m n s
E eh A e u t n c ie e e t
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
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U P– Cz c CK N
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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 methodology
Translation of the methodology into English
Keep on translating CKAN into Czech
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Communication and Events
Presented PublicData.eu & LOD2 at ePSI Conference 2012
Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw
New Linked Data page on CKAN wiki with notes & next steps:
http://wiki.ckan.org/Linked_Data
Skype meetups about CKAN & Linked Data
17th November 2011: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/meetup-2011-11-17
2nd February 2012: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/meetup-2012-02-02
LOD2 / CKAN integration call: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/LOD2-integration
Datacatalogs.org now has 216 registered catalogs and 17 curated groups
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OK N: F t r id a f rb e k u s s io d c s io
F u u e e s o r a o t e s n is u s n
Breakout session on Friday afternoon
Metadata and catalog standards & interoperability: want meetings, consensus,
decisions
Extending the coverage of datacatalogs.org
Review CKAN + LOD2 meetings: integration, actions, progress
For 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?
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Irina Bolychevsky
Open Knowledge Foundation
Irina.bolychevsky@okfn.org
@shevski
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