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Framing the issue, looking ahead

Francesco Molinarimail@francescomolinari.it

Alfamicro, Portugal

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What we are talking about

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Starting Point (1)

EPSI Platform

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Starting Point (2)

http://www.informationr.net/ir/10-3/paper228.html

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Our vision

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Issues to deal with…

• Open Data Policies: rationale, drivers, constraints…• Ceremonial Vs. Relevant for transparency of government

and development of economy / progress of society• Quality, Reliability, Terms of (Re)use of Data and

Information• Security and Privacy, esp. in relation to global

communication infrastructures (e.g. Gmail, Twitter)• The Big Data revolution: which impacts on the socio-

economic system?• Proprietary Vs. Open Source concepts• Who has to pay for what?

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Example1: City Open Data

• Great potential for increasing “smartness” – or livability and residents’ well being – of a city in a variety of domains, from mobility to energy, from public health to environment etc.

• Quite often released in a non-interoperable format, which is difficult to access and use by the developer community, let alone the average citizen

• With latent tensions between transparency and privacy, accountability and the law of order

• A plethora of pretty similar applications are built on the top of scanty and incomplete datasets, not enabling to reach critical mass or business dimension (transferability)

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Example2: Linked Data projects

• Mostly promoted by technology enthusiasts (or deliberate experimenters), have not, as yet, demonstrated impact on business cases

• Their advantages are most often assumed or implied; little measurement occurs and far more expressions of technical benefit (for example, it is easier to work across systems) than of business benefit (e.g., better service quality) exist, although one might lead to the other

• There is a common need (also to the previous example) for the creation of ad hoc open/linked datasets in response to precisely identified socio-economic needs.

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Two EU funded projects

• An “Open Data Commons” concept and linked environment that facilitates access to data in different formats by shared templates and applicationswww.citadelonthemove.eu

• A practical workbench for newbies interested in getting the most in terms of business value from state of the art Linked Open Data tools and resources

www.linda-project.eu

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Thank you for your attention

Francesco Molinarimail@francescomolinari.it

Alfamicro, Portugal