Towards a Linked Government Data Cloud
Place: Medialab Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid
Lecture by José Manuel Alonso (W3C/CTIC - eGovernment Lead) within the context of the Visualizar'09: Public Data, Data in Public workshop-seminar (November 12 through 27, 2009).
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Every day, governments and government agencies publish more data on the Internet. Sharing this data enables greater transparency; delivers more efficient public services; and encourages greater public and commercial use and re-use of government information. Some governments have even created catalogs or portals to make it easy for the public to find and use this data.
Although the reasons may vary, the logistics and practicalities of opening government data are the same. To help governments open and share their data, the W3C eGovernment Interest Group has developed a set of guidelines. These straightforward steps emphasize standards and methodologies to encourage publication of government data, allowing the public to use this data in new and innovative ways.
This talk will review the aforementioned guidelines and ways of publishing government data, putting the emphasis on the most powerful method: Linked Government Data, as well as showing real world examples of methods and applications developed at CTIC Foundation and elsewhere.