From Data to Your Data Stories  

Anna  Triantafillou,  ATC  Vangelis  Karkaletsis,  NCSR  ‘Demokritos’    Big  Data  Europe  Workshop,  Luxemburg  18/11/2015  

YourDataStories at a Glance •  An EU Funded Project –  INSO-1-2014: ICT-Enabled open government

•  Starting Date: February 1st, 2015 •  Duration: 36 months •  Scope: Innovation Action –  Pilots on transparency

•  Highlights –  Actions should pilot tools to increase the transparency

impact of ICT-based technology platforms of the public sector;

–  The transparency tools to be piloted should benefit from open data and help in monitoring, enhancing accountability & fighting corruption

Pilot 1: Follow public money all the way in Greece

•  Comprehensive analysis of available data – RDFise and interconnect data from various

(governmental) sources •  National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF),

Greek Transparency Portal (Diavgeia), etc. –  Enhance data along various dimensions

•  Detailed geo-information, ground named-entities, etc.

–  Provide the Data Citizen, public servants, auditors with tools to query, discover and participate in the fiscal transparency process

Pilot 2: Tracking Development Aid in the Netherlands

•  Analysis of data across multiple countries – RDFise and interconnect data from

various sources •  Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS),

International AID Transparency Initiative (IATI), MIT’s Atlas, etc.

–  Provide journalists with tools to discover ‘news’ stories •  Answering “interesting questions”

–  How much did the Netherlands spend on foreign aid related to Zimbabwe in the time frame 2005-2014, what sectors was this money spent on and in relation to what?

Pilot 3: Cross-Europe Financial Comparability

•  Comparative analysis of data across EU – Exploit our unifying model, vocabulary, and tools

to enable comparisons of economic data across EU •  The results from the Greek ‘Follow Public Money all

the way’ pilot will be compared with data from the Irish National and Local Government

Challenges

•  Economic open data are: – Heterogeneous –  Incompatible vocabularies – Not related to policy goals

•  With great potential! – We need tools and

infrastructure to alleviate these problems

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