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.

1. Progress Report
on 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. bhyland@3roundstones.com
Twitter: @BernHyland
This presentation: http://slideshare.net/3roundstones
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2. Slide credit:
Jennifer Bell
VisibleGovernment.ca
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3. What is driving us?
“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
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5. 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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8. Best Practices
Vocabulary Guidance
Community Building
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9. Deliverables
Best Practices for Standard Vocabularies
Publishing Linked Data
Metadata, Statistical
Procurement, “Cube” Data, People,
vocabulary selection, Organizational
URI construction, structures
versioning, stability,
legacy data issues Community Directory
Cookbook for Linked
Open Data
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10. Goal: Make Open Data, Content, and
Web APIs the New Default
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11. Slide credit:
Jennifer Bell
VisibleGovernment.ca
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12. RDF is a lingua
franca for data
exchange
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13. Global participants ...
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14. 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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16. Announcement on the importance
of vocabularies ...
The following went to A checklist for
FPWD 5-April-2012: determining a “good”
vocabulary is
1. Data Catalog Vocabulary
incorporated in the Best
2.Data Cube Vocabulary Practices doc
3.Organization Ontology
4.Terms for Describing
People
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17. Progress report at a
glance
• Data.gov.uk remains the • EU talks the talk and walks
leader with the most the walk
published 5 star
government LOD, see
http://data.gov.uk/
• US is making some solid
progress with 4-5 star
LOD in 2012
• European Commission is
funding the creation of
tools and datasets to
• Join the 2012 International
Open Government Data
accelerate data reuse via Conference July 10-12,
Linked Data approach 2012 World Bank
Headquarters, Washington
DC
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18. UK Environment Agency:
Water Quality
• Five star publication of • The data is live - updated
assessments of the water at least weekly and
quality for bathing sometimes daily as new
("swimming" for a US assessments arrive.
audience) sites in England
and Wales • See http://
environment.data.gov.uk/
• Links annual quality
assessments, weekly in-
season assessments and
• Contact: Dave Reynolds
profiles
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19. University of Southampton
Open Data Service
• Lists 5 star data sets for the • Datasets will mostly be
university published under "Open
Government License, or
• Includes buildings, places, other licenses conforming to
the Open Definition. (In
educational resources,
events, facilities & some cases this may not be
equipment, calendar info, possible).
student statistics &
transportation info • See http://
data.southampton.ac.uk/
datasets.html
• Contact: Tope Imitola
(University of Southampton)
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20. Clean Energy data from Reegle
• High quality information • Reegle.info provides info
on renewables, energy to OpenEI, World Bank
efficiency and climate Data and the UK Open
change to help accelerate Data Portal
the clean energy
marketplace • See http://data.reegle.info
• Five star publication of • Contact: Martin
data, manuals and Kaltenböck (Semantic
endpoint for data re-use Web Company, Austria)
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21. Something new is emerging
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22. Spanish Geospatial
Linked Data
• Five star publication of • See http://
diverse information from oegdev.dia.fi.upm.es/
National Geographic projects/map4rdf/
Institute of Spain & Spanish
Meteorological Office • Contact: Boris Villazón
Terrazas (Universidad
• The GeoLinkedData Politécnica de Madrid)
Initiative released map4rdf
• A mapping and faceted
browsing tool for exploring
and visualizing RDF datasets
enhanced with geometrical
Information.
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23. ISA Programme
Vocabularies
• Includes the Asset • Currently in review
Description Metadata within GLD WG
Schema (ADMS)
• See http://www.w3.org/
• Facilitates federation and ns/adms
co-operation
• Contact: Phil Archer
• ADMS can act as a (W3C/ERCIM)
common layer among
repositories that want
to exchange data
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24. US Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
• Five star publication about • Additional pilots in 2012
the facilities and substances incorporating EPA and
regulated by the EPA anonymized electronic
medical records (EMR)
• Links to 24 years of data data from Sentara
Healthcare
on major polluters from
the Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI) program • 5 star LOD will be hosted
& accessible summer 2012
• A proof-of-concept
launched 2011 • Contact: Michael Pendleton
(US EPA)
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25. US Health & Human Services
• Newly revamped • Announced at at Health
HealthData.gov Datapalooza, Washington
DC on June 5, 2012
• Data sets from agencies
across Federal government • See http://healthdata.gov
with the goal of using open
data to improve the health
of all Americans
• Contact: George Thomas
(US HHS)
• US$35k round one HDP
domain challenge runs 5-
June to 2-Oct 2012 on
challenge.gov
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26. SEC Filings as
Linked Data
• XBRL data set for Edgar, • Companies linked to
US Securities and Freebase
Exchange Commission
required filings. • See http://
edgarwrap.ontologycent
• Project is called Edgar ral.com/
Linked Data Wrapper
• Contact: Benedikt
• Leverages the RDF Data Kaempgen,
Cube Vocabulary (Forschungszentrum
Informatik)
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27. US Library of Congress
Linked Data
• This site includes • See see http://id.loc.gov
Vocabularies and
Authorities owned and
maintained by the
• Contact: Tina Gheen
(Library of Congress)
Library of Congress
made available as linked
data.
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28. Global requirements
• “Comprehensively link
legislation for more
effective government”
• “Link & explain inter-
relationships”
• “We need global
standards for metadata”
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29. Linked Data is simply
sensible ...
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
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30. It is going to take active & thoughtful participation
from individuals
in research, government and private sector
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31. Publishing Linked Data
will require continual
nurturing but the
rewards are worth it
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32. Recommendations
• 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
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33. • 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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34. 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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35. 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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36. 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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37. Bernadette Hyland
bhyland@3roundstones.com
@BernHyland
http://3RoundStones.com
Email info@3RoundStones.com
Twitter @3RoundStones
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39. Credits
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VisibleGovernment.ca
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