open government data (a technology perspective) josé manuel alonso cc-by 2011 ctic centro...
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Open Government Data(a technology perspective)
José Manuel Alonso
CC-BY 2011 CTIC Centro Tecnológico
Context: Projects
• Spain(11 projects + 3 more in the works)
– 2 Local– 8 Regional– 1 National: National Data Catalogue
• International(2 projects + 2 more in the works)
– Feasibility (in partnership with Web Foundation)• Chile, Ghana
– Standardization: W3C eGovernment
Spain: varied technical approaches
Datasets Technology
Asturias Few 5-star Linked Data
Basque Country Hundreds, much low-hanging fruit
All formats, RDF metadata
Cataluña Dozens All formats, some RDF/XML, several APIs, some high quality
Zaragoza Dozens All formats, some 5-star Linked Data, some APIs
Gijón Dozens All formats, some RDF/XML, several APIs, some high quality
National Hundreds from XLS to HTML pages to PDF reports
Spain: varied types of information
Example
Asturias Hundreds of occupational training courses in Linked Data
Basque Country Database of Spanish-Basque word and expression translations (700Mb)
Cataluña 25.000 geo-located public equipments in RDF/XML
Zaragoza Water cut offs in real time (GeoRSS)
Gijón Public transport in real time (Linked Data)
National A little bit of everything
Concerns Heard
• Loss of licensing revenue • Loss of control • Legal challenges • Unwelcomed exposure • Procedural changes • Privacy • National security • Complexity • Investment • Capacity building required • Authenticity, quality • Corruption, falsification of data • Customer service (Positives are outweighing the concerns)
Economical and Business
Macroeconomic StabilityFinancial MarketsMarkets for Goods and ServicesBusiness Environment
Economical and Business
Macroeconomic StabilityFinancial MarketsMarkets for Goods and ServicesBusiness Environment
Social
DemographicsLabor MarketQuality of LifeEducation and Literacy
Social
DemographicsLabor MarketQuality of LifeEducation and Literacy
Infraestructures y Sci-Tech
InnovationICT UsageInfraestructures
Infraestructures y Sci-Tech
InnovationICT UsageInfraestructures
Open Access
Legal BasisAwareness and SupportData and InteroperabilityAgents
Open Access
Legal BasisAwareness and SupportData and InteroperabilityAgents
Institutional and Political
Governance and DemocracyTransparency and CorruptionCooperation
Institutional and Political
Governance and DemocracyTransparency and CorruptionCooperation
OGD Ecosystem: Context is very important
Lessons learned: technical (I)
• Raw data now… and better data afterwards– i.e. start with the low hanging fruit– improve over time (steps)
• Do not try to enforce an specific architecture• Chances are you could not deploy it• Try to adapt to existing systems and build on top
of them as a start• More standardization is needed
– e.g. on vocabularies (see W3C new groups)– What’s a dataset? What’s a catalogue?
• Counting datasets is bad
Lessons learned: technical (II)
• Linked Data is tough but a good tactic, needs improvement• It just doesn’t work• Better tooling is needed• Capacity building
PublishPublish ReuseReuse
PublishPublish ReuseReuse
OGD
LGD
Conclusions
• The whole ecosystem is very important, don’t underestimate
• Concerns are still many but there are some arguments to be used• They need to be addressed ASAP anyway
• The number of projects is constantly increasing and improving– Let’s build on success stories
Thank you
• http://datos.fundacionctic.org• http://www.w3.org/eGov• http://www.webfoundation.org• [email protected]• [email protected]• [email protected]• @josemalonso