opportunities and challenges for opening up government data in macedonia

www.finki.ukim.mk www.facebook.com/FINKI.ukim.mk www.twitter.com/FINKIedu

Prof. d-r Dimitar TrajanovFaculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FINKI)

21 .03.2012, Skopje, Macedonia

Opportunities and Challenges for Opening up Government Data in

Macedonia


Agenda

o Introduction• Open Data, Linked Data and Semantic Web

o Open data in Macedoniao What we have done @FINKIo Next stepso Conclusions


Today’s Web

• Suitable for human consumption

• Markup consists of: – rendering information

(e.g., font size and colour)

– Hyper-links to related content

• Semantic content is accessible to humans, but not (easily) to computers…


o e-Paper formats (easily human readable)• Text data• PDF• HTML

o Raw data (human readable and computer can read)• XML data• Excel files• CSV

o Semantic WEB (easily readable by computers)• RDF• OWL• microformat

Open Dataand document formats


The Web IS the Database!

Application A Application B

ColdplayBand

Palo AltoCity

JanePerson

IBMCompany

DavePerson

BobPerson

DesignTeamGroup

StanfordAlumnaeGroup

IBM.comWeb Site

123.JPGPhotoDave.com

Weblog

SuePerson

JoePerson

Dave.comRSS Feed

Lives in

Publisher of

Friend of

Depiction of

Depiction of

Member of

Married to

Member of

Member of

Member of

Fan of

Lives in

Subscriber to

Source of

Author of

Member of

Employee of

Fan of


Linked Open Data Cloud (2011)


o Open data is the data on the site is available to the public, but it doesn't link to other data sources on the Web. • It could be data that has been uploaded in CSV format (i.e. spreadsheet

data)

o Linked Data is a 'web of data.'• The idea of Open Data is to turn it into Linked Data• The first priority is to publish lots of Open Data. • The next step is to work towards linking it all up. • Data.gov.uk is currently a combination of Open Data and Linked Data

Open Data vs Linked Data

Is there Open Data in Macedonia?


o No information systems in place• Data is in Word documents

o There is an information system but no data is published

o Well developed information system with large amount of published data

State Institution IT stage


Open Data in Macedonia


FINKI open data SPARQL end point


FINKI Open Data

o The Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering joins the trend by making parts of its data available as open data.

o Information about all the faculties in our university such as names, addresses, phones, email and web pages.

o We publish more information about our Faculty - Institutes, Modules, Programs, Courses, Subjects and Employees.

o Implemented using available tools


System architecture


The ontology reuse and Linked Data

o The database tables and properties annotated with existing ontologies. Only the data that is annotated is displayed.


Open data portal


Open Data Portal


ASP .NET

- DotNetRDF

- AllegroGraph

- Sesame

- Virtuoso

- ReDeFer

- RDF Validator

Open Data PortalArchitecture and technologies


Semantic SkyEnterprise Open Data

Desktop-client

Browser Plug-in

Semantic Sky Resource Retrieval

Action Invocation

Semantic Sky

Sparql Endpoint

Ontology

Cloud Service 1

Cloud Service 2

Cloud Service 3

Cloud plug-in


Open Data Team @ FINKI

o Prof. d-r Dimitar Trajanovo m-r Milos Jovanovik, PhD Candidateo m-r Riste Stojanov, PhD Candidateo m-r Vladimir Zdraveski, PhD Candidateo Petar Ristoski, M.Sc. studento Marjan Georgiev, M.Sc. studento Martin Kostovski, M.Sc. studento Martin Mitrevski, B.Sc. student


o Create Open Data Portal (data.gov.mk)• Develop clear security guidelines• Move the existing data sets to data.gov.mk

o Create and publish data sets useful for larger population and crate mobile and web applications

o Start publishing row datao Build new systems with automatic data publishing

option

How to proceed


o More new and innovative applicationso Users engagement o More happy userso Economic growth

Publishers benefits form open data


o We need to change our minds • To provide a means of computers to help us

o The technology is here• We lack data. • Additional effort is needed to publish data in computer readable

format

o There is good foundation for open data in Macedonia• @FINKI have research group deeply involved in Semantic Web

and Open Data• Many institutions already have high quality data in digital format

o We should strive to Web 3.0 (Semantic web)• web of data

Conclusion


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