Putting the L in front From Open Data to Linked Open Data (LOD) Government Linked Data Workshop, OGD Camp 2011, Warsaw, Poland Martin Kaltenböck These slides are published under : http://creativecommons.org/licen ses/by/3.0 @lod2project @semwebcompany
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Putting the L in front: from Open Data to Linked Open Data
Keynote presentation of Martin Kaltenböck (LOD2 project, Semantic Web Company) at the Government Linked Data Workshop in the course of the OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw, Poland: Putting the L in front: from Open Data to Linked Open Data
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Putting the L in frontFrom Open Data to Linked Open Data (LOD)Government Linked Data Workshop, OGD Camp 2011, Warsaw, Poland
Martin Kaltenböck
These slides are published under : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Open Government Data is a worldwide movement to open data (& information) of the government / public administration* - that is NOT personal (individual related) – in human- and maschine readable open formats (non proprietary) for use & re use!
OPEN stands for lowering the barriers to ensure as broad as possible re-use (for everybody)!
There is a new paradigm in publishing Open Government Data
= look, take and play!
* ….. data and information produced or commissioned by government or government controlled entities
What is Open (Government) Data?
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What is important when thinking about open data in use?•Interoperability to ensure broad & easy use & re-use•Human AND machine readable data and meta data•In open formats•For smooth and cost efficient data integration•To generate effects on several levels: local – regional – national – EU wide & worldwide
For several target groups with several interests!•Public administration (also for internal use)•Politicians & decision makers•Citizens (Citizen Analysts)•Economy & Industry (data integration, -enrichment, APPs)•(Data) Journalists, media & publishers•Academia & Science
Linked Data realizes the vision of evolving the Web into a global data commons, allowing applications to operate on top of an unbounded set of data sources, via standardised access mechanisms.
I expect that Linked Data will enable a significant evolutionary step in leading the Web to its full potential.
The Vision of the new Internet
Linked Open Data benefits & LOD in use
Misconceptions about Linked Open Data
• All of us have to use ONE schema
• Everything needs to be switched to RDF
• We all have to learn SPARQL, there are no standard (web) APIs
• LOD is a pure academic approach
• LOD can only be used by Semantic Web experts
• We have to change our data integration & -management approaches 13
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• Enables web-scale data publishing - distributed publication with web-based discovery mechanisms
• Everything is a resource – follow your nose to discover more about properties, classes, or codes within a code list
• Everything can be annotated - make comments about observations, data series, points on a map
• Easy to extend - create new properties as required, no need to plan everything up-front
• Easy to merge - slot together RDF graphs, no need to worry about name clashes
• Easy use and re-use on top of common schemas AND schema mapping
• Allows complex querying of several distributed data sources & systems
The Power of Linked Open Data
• Less replication (offering same datasets in different places)
• Encouragement to re-use existing datasets
• Clear which datasets are providing similar / same information
• More innovation because datasets can be put in a new context and lead to interesting applications
• Put information in context and thereby create knowledge
The Benefits of Linked Open Data
Linked Open Data as a ‚national digital infrastructure‘
Data have swept into every industry and business function and are now an important factor of production, alongside labor and capital.
Harnessing big data in the public sector has enormous potential, too. If US health care were to use big data creatively and effectively to drive efficiency and quality, the sector could create more than $300 billion in value every year. Two-thirds of that would be in the form of reducing US health care expenditure by about 8 percent.
In the developed economies of Europe, government administrators could save more than €100 billion ($149 billion) in operational efficiency improvements alone by using big data, not including using big data to reduce fraud and errors and boost the collection of tax revenues.
And users of services enabled by personal location data could capture $600 billion in consumer surplus.
LOD2 for a Distributed Markeplace for Public Sector Contracts
•Government meets the commerce•Establishing a functional distributed marketplace for public procurement by integrating data in a linked data infrastructure•Crossing boundaries of dedicated applications for tenders, electronic markets, or e-shops.
Goals•Increase business participation in public procurement•Enhance transparency of the public procurement processes•Achieve more efficient resource allocation•Provide for better informed decisions•Defragmentation of public sector demand
Free to Use: The LOD2 Stack
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1st release of the LOD2 stack available at: http://stack.lod2.euIntegrated distribution of aligned tools which support the life-cycle of Linked Data from The LOD2 Stack also makes use of dataset metadata repositories such as thedatahub.org and http://publicdata.eu.
Open Government Stakeholder Survey 2012 – early 2012http://survey.lod2.eu
Publink LOD Consulting Service – 2nd Call opens November 2011http://lod2.eu/Article/Publink.html
LOD2 webinar series on Linked Open Data tools starting soon!
Where you can find all informationWebsite: http://lod2.euWeblog: http://blog.lod2.eu Twitter: http://twitter.com/lod2projectMailing List: [email protected] SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/lod2project
Remark: please use #lod2 on twitter for your posts & connect with: @lod2project Many thanks in advance!! AND: #lod2stack coming soon!
•evaluate possibilities which linked data can offer•understand how to transform your data to linked data in a controlled and strategic manner•get an idea why linked data technologies are the "agile way of enterprise data integration"•see how to profit from oodles of free available data in the cloud•understand how and why publishing interesting and relevant parts of your data could be a strategic option for you
Infos & Kontakt
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Martin Kaltenböck, CMCSemantic Web Company GmbH (SWC)
Putting the L in frontFrom Open Data to Linked Open Data
Annex
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Open Government Data Stakeholder Survey 2010http://survey.lod2.eu
I current consume/publish data in the following formats
Interoperabilty & Standards
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Open Government Data Stakeholder Survey 2010http://survey.lod2.eu
I would ideally like to consume/publish data in the following formats
Interoperabilty & Standards
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Interoperabilty & Standards
Henry Maudslay (1771 – 1831)
He also developed the first industrially practical screw-cutting lathe in 1800, allowing standardisation of screw thread sizes for the first time. This allowed the concept of interchangeability (a idea that was already taking hold) to be practically applied to nuts and bolts. Before this, all nuts and bolts had to be made as matching pairs only. This meant that when machines were disassembled, careful account had to be kept of the matching nuts and bolts ready for when reassembly took place.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maudslay
John Sheridan, OGD2011 Conference, Vienna, Austria: http://www.slideshare.net/semwebcompany/linking-uk-government-data-john-sheridan/
Also take the Metadata into account!
Towards Open Government Metadata (Sept 2010)
In the EU eGovernment Action Plan semantic interoperability is mentioned “…as an essential precondition for open, flexible delivery of eGovernment services”.
Metadata IgnorancePublic administrations should become aware of the importance of Metadata in eGovernment and the need for coherent relevant management policies.
Scattered or Closed MetadataPublic administrations should organize the scattered Metadata in structured repositories,catalogues or libraries and provide open access to the collected resources.
Open Metadata for Humans & Open Reuseable MetadataPublic administrations should provide services to query, browse and export their Metadata in amachine-readable and preferably non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV, XML).
Linked Open MetadataPublic administrations should consider applying linked metadata policies, including use of RDFto document their Metadata, persistent design, use and maintenance of URIs, linking toexternal vocabularies/schemata, harmonize their resources to third parties' resources etc.