progress report on government linked data worldwide
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The W3C Government Linked Data Working Group is chartered for two years (2011-2013) to update the W3C Recommendations related to the publication of government open data as high quality "5 star" Linked Data. This progress report highlights the progress of the Government Linked Data Working Group. Include: * Best Practices and the Government Linked Data Cookbook; * Recommended vocabularies specific to government use; * Guidance on handling legacy data, versioning and procurement; and * Advice on the value proposition of publishing open government content as Linked Data to support project funding.TRANSCRIPT
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Progress Reporton the Publication of
Government Linked Data Worldwide
Brief by David Wood on behalf of
Bernadette Hyland, co-chair W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
Email. [email protected]: @BernHyland
This presentation: http://slideshare.net/3roundstones
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Slide credit: Jennifer Bell
VisibleGovernment.ca
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“We’re moving from managing documents to managing discrete pieces of open data and content which can be tagged, shared, secured, mashed up and presented in the way that is most useful for the consumer of that information.”
-- Report on Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People
What is driving us?
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The mission of the Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group is to provide standards and other information which help governments around the world publish their data as effective and usable Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies.
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Best Practices
Vocabulary Guidance
Community Building
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Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data
Procurement, vocabulary selection, URI construction, versioning, stability, legacy data issues
Cookbook for Linked Open Data
Standard Vocabularies
Metadata, Statistical “Cube” Data, People, Organizational structures
Community Directory
Deliverables
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Goal: Make Open Data, Content, and Web APIs the New Default
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RDF is a lingua franca for data
exchange
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Global participants ...
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We seek to support Open Government advocates ...• Providing an ecosystem of products, tools &
service providers --> W3 Community Directory• How to publish Gov Linked Data --> Best Practices• FAQs
• For procurement, business & IT managers• Value proposition of RDF, SPARQL
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The following went to
FPWD 5-April-2012:
1.Data Catalog Vocabulary
2.Data Cube Vocabulary
3.Organization Ontology
4.Terms for Describing
People
A checklist for determining a “good” vocabulary is incorporated in the Best Practices doc
Announcement on the importance of vocabularies ...
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• Data.gov.uk remains the leader with the most published 5 star government LOD, see http://data.gov.uk/
• European Commission is funding the creation of tools and datasets to accelerate data reuse via Linked Data approach
• EU talks the talk and walks the walk
• US is making some solid progress with 4-5 star LOD in 2012
• Join the 2012 International Open Government Data Conference July 10-12, 2012 World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC
Progress report at a glance
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UK Environment Agency: Water Quality
• Five star publication of assessments of the water quality for bathing ("swimming" for a US audience) sites in England and Wales
• Links annual quality assessments, weekly in-season assessments and profiles
• The data is live - updated at least weekly and sometimes daily as new assessments arrive.
• See http://environment.data.gov.uk/
• Contact: Dave Reynolds
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University of Southampton Open Data Service
• Lists 5 star data sets for the university
• Includes buildings, places, educational resources, events, facilities & equipment, calendar info, student statistics & transportation info
• Datasets will mostly be published under "Open Government License, or other licenses conforming to the Open Definition. (In some cases this may not be possible).
• See http://data.southampton.ac.uk/datasets.html
• Contact: Tope Imitola (University of Southampton)
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Clean Energy data from Reegle
• High quality information on renewables, energy efficiency and climate change to help accelerate the clean energy marketplace
• Five star publication of data, manuals and endpoint for data re-use
• Reegle.info provides info to OpenEI, World Bank Data and the UK Open Data Portal
• See http://data.reegle.info
• Contact: Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company, Austria)
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Something new is emerging21Tuesday, June 5, 12
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Spanish Geospatial Linked Data
• Five star publication of diverse information from National Geographic Institute of Spain & Spanish Meteorological Office
• The GeoLinkedData Initiative released map4rdf
• A mapping and faceted browsing tool for exploring and visualizing RDF datasets enhanced with geometrical Information.
• See http://oegdev.dia.fi.upm.es/projects/map4rdf/
• Contact: Boris Villazón Terrazas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
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ISA Programme Vocabularies
• Includes the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS)
• Facilitates federation and co-operation
• ADMS can act as a common layer among repositories that want to exchange data
• Currently in review within GLD WG
• See http://www.w3.org/ns/adms
• Contact: Phil Archer (W3C/ERCIM)
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US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Five star publication about the facilities and substances regulated by the EPA
• Links to 24 years of data on major polluters from the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program
• A proof-of-concept launched 2011
• Additional pilots in 2012 incorporating EPA and anonymized electronic medical records (EMR) data from Sentara Healthcare
• 5 star LOD will be hosted & accessible summer 2012
• Contact: Michael Pendleton (US EPA)
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US Health & Human Services
• Newly revamped HealthData.gov
• Data sets from agencies across Federal government with the goal of using open data to improve the health of all Americans
• US$35k round one HDP domain challenge runs 5-June to 2-Oct 2012 on challenge.gov
• Announced at at Health Datapalooza, Washington DC on June 5, 2012
• See http://healthdata.gov
• Contact: George Thomas (US HHS)
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SEC Filings as Linked Data
• XBRL data set for Edgar, US Securities and Exchange Commission required filings.
• Project is called Edgar Linked Data Wrapper
• Leverages the RDF Data Cube Vocabulary
• Companies linked to Freebase
• See http://edgarwrap.ontologycentral.com/
• Contact: Benedikt Kaempgen, (Forschungszentrum Informatik)
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US Library of Congress Linked Data
• This site includes Vocabularies and Authorities owned and maintained by the Library of Congress made available as linked data.
• See see http://id.loc.gov
• Contact: Tina Gheen (Library of Congress)
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Global requirements
• “Comprehensively link legislation for more effective government”
• “Link & explain inter-relationships”
• “We need global standards for metadata”
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Answers the question, “how are we using technology to make a real difference in people’s lives ...”
Data re-use for apps that matter
Government Linked Data
can help you navigate
Linked Data is simply sensible ...
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It is going to take active & thoughtful participation from individuals
in research, government and private sector
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Publishing Linked Data will require continual nurturing but the rewards are worth it
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• Linked Data promotes goals of transparency & economic development during times of fiscal austerity
• Publish in reusable format (RDF family of standards)
• Use OPEN vs proprietary in data formats
• Define a URI Policy and Strategy
• Use best practices and vocabularies exist -- don’t recreate the wheel
Recommendations
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• Linked Data is about publishing and consuming data using international data standards
• Based on 20 year old idea
• A system of linked information systems
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Resources
• VisibleGovernment.ca Website http://visiblegovernment.ca
• Hack, Mash and Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency, Jerry Brito, George Mason University, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1023485
• Blog on UK Environment Agency Water Quality, see http://data.southampton.ac.uk/datasets.html
• Southampton Open Data Service, see http://data.southampton.ac.uk/datasets.html
• Blog post on Clean Energy data from Reegle, see http://blog.semantic-web.at/2012/04/13/reegle-info-linked-open-energy-data-cloud/
• Blog post on Publishing Linked Open Data in Tight Economic Times, 30-Jan-2012, http://3roundstones.com/2012/01/30/publishing-linked-open-data-makes-good-sense-in-tight-economic-times/
• Blog post on HealthData.gov from US Health & Human Services, 4-June-2012, http://www.healthdata.gov/blog/welcome-new-healthdatagov
• Blog post on US HHS Domain Challenge 1: Metadata, 2-June-2012, http://www.healthdata.gov/blog/domain-challenge-1-metadata
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W3C Working Drafts
• Data Catalog Vocabulary, see http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/
• RDF Data Cube Vocabulary, see http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/
• Organizational Ontology, see http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/
• People Vocabulary, see http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-people/
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Coming soon ...• Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data (editor’s Draft
20-Apr-2012), see https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/bp/index.html
• Linked Data Cookbook, see http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/Linked_Data_Cookbook
• Linked Data Directory, see http://dir.w3.org
• Attend the 2012 International Open Government Data Conference co-sponsored by data.gov & The World Bank 10-12 July 2012, Washington DC, see http://www.data.gov/communities/conference
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CreditsAmelia Earheart, missrouge
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1-5 Star Linked Data imagehttp://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/
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