Dissemination and visualisation of linked statistical data

– a practical approach –

andrei.melis@eaudeweb.ro

Agenda Background Open data and linked data RDF vocabularies for statistical data Data visualization tool More resources and way forward Q&A

European Environment Agency transparency https://taskman.eionet.europa.eu/projects

open source software https://github.com/eea

open data http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps#tab-datasets exposed as RDF via Semantic Data Service:

http://semantic.eea.europa.eu/ 16.000 datasets SPARQL endpoint: http://semantic.eea.europa.eu/sparql

Global Open Data Index http://index.okfn.org/place

5 stars open data * on the web, open license ** structured *** non-proprietary open format **** uses URIs to denote things ***** provides context through links to other data http://5stardata.info/en/#costs-benefits

Linked data www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#linked-data linkeddatafragments.org resolvable HTTP URIs

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bucharest http://dbpedia.org/data/Bucharest.jsonld (application/ld+json) http://dbpedia.org/page/Bucharest (text/html)

Open Data Portals Linked data producers by research projects and web enthusiasts conversion of existing data to RDF increasingly adopted by the primary data producers

Open Data Portals most of them based on CKAN (by OKFN) open-data.europa.eu catalog.data.gov data.gov.ccTLD, e.g. data.gov.ro datahub.io

http://lod-cloud.net

Statistical data structurally different from other [linked] data typically distributed as datasets concerned with measures, indicators, series,

time periods, statistical/geographical regions multiple dimensions and measures generic - place, time or domain-specific

slices, agregations, totals, denominators various RDF vocabularies for modeling datasets

XML-based standards SDMX Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange probably the most widely used standard for

statistical data exchange adopted by major producers of statistical data (ECB,

Eurostat, IMF, OECD, UNSD, UNESCO, World Bank) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdmx-web-services

DSPL Dataset Publishing Language can be processed by Google Public Data Explorer

RDF vocabularies Dublin Core Terms DCAT http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat catalogues, dataset metadata, distribution

VoID http://www.w3.org/TR/void linked datasets

RDF Data Cube Vocabulary http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube built on top of existing vocabularies focused on statistical data integrates dataset metadata, structure, codelists and

observations uses the core SDMX Information Model

Semantic interoperability SPARQL - native query language of RDF knowledge bases http://worldbank.270a.info/sparql select * where { ?s ?p <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Temperature> }

http://worldbank.270a.info/classification/variable/tas

http://worldbank.270a.info/classification/variable

world-bank-climates/month-average-historical.html

SPARQL PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#> PREFIX sdmx-dimension: <http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#> PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> PREFIX property: <http://worldbank.270a.info/property/> PREFIX d-climates: <http://worldbank.270a.info/dataset/world-bank-climates/>

select ?o ?value where { ?o a qb:Observation; qb:dataSet d-climates:month-average-historical; sdmx-dimension:refArea [owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Romania>]; property:variable [skos:exactMatch <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Temperature>]; property:recurring-interval <http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/intervals/March>; property:month-average ?value } http://worldbank.270a.info/dataset/world-bank-climates/month-average-historical/1900-2009/03/RO/tas "3.781612" ^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>

Observation page

Romania page

http://digital-agenda-data.eu European Commission, DG for Communications

Networks, Content & Technology Digital Agenda, Europe 2020 strategy

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

The Digital Economy & Society Index (DESI)

User requirements target statistical data / Data Cube Vocabulary non-technical audience simple and intuitive navigation lots of explanatory notes, labels and metadata 100+ indicators inside a single large dataset

no SPARQL embedding, export, share, bookmark, etc. moderated comments good looking charts

Dataset metadata

Dataset metadata

Dataset contents

Sample column chart

Visualisations

Chart configurator

Chart configurator type of chart single/multiple selection for dimensions series layout of filters order and grouping in each filter sorting of values chart titles, tooltips, explanatory texts legend and metadata from code lists and more...

Chart configurator

Hierarchical code list

Sample column chart

Sample line charts

Additional explanations and user interaction

Navigation widget

Digital Economy and Society Index

http://digital-agenda-data.eu Digital Agenda Key Indicators 170 indicators, 700k observations

Digital Economy and Society Index 50 indicators, 8k observations

Lead Indicators for DG Connect policy priorities 31 indicators, 35k observations

Other resources Use Cases and Lessons for the Data Cube

Vocabulary http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube-use-cases

Technical information http://digital-agenda-data.eu/documentation

Try it test.digital-agenda-data.eu github.com/digital-agenda-data Vagrant build

Linked statistical data – our experience good: URI’s – break data silos of statistical office cross-dataset queries metadata and methodology

not so good: missing from RDF data cube: aggregate values size of RDF serialized form performance

challenging: generating valid DSD data maintenance

Find out more joinup.ec.europa.eu interoperability solutions for public administrations share and reuse communities, guidelines, source code

SEMIC 2016 Semantic Interoperability Conference Rome, Italy – 12 May 2016

StatDCAT application profile for data portals joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/stat_dcat_application_pro

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