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OpenCube

Publishing and Enriching Linked Open Statistical Data for the

Development of Data Analytics and Enhanced Visualization Services

Deliverable 5.3

Interim Dissemination Report

Editor(s): Paul Hermans (ProXML)

Responsible Organisation: ProXML

Version-Status: V1.0 Final

Submission date: 31/10/2014

Dissemination level: PU

D5.3 Interim Dissemination Report

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Deliverable factsheet

Project Number: FP7 - 611667

Project Acronym: OpenCube

Project Title: Publishing and Enriching Linked Open Statistical Data for the Development of Data Analytics and Enhanced Visualization Services

Title of Deliverable: D5.3 – Interim Dissemination Report

Work package: WP5 – Dissemination and Exploitation

Due date according to contract: 31/10/2014

Editor(s): Paul Hermans (ProXML)

Contributor(s): All Partners

Reviewer(s): Bill Roberts (SWIRRL)

Approved by: All Partners

Abstract: This deliverable describes the dissemination activities carried out so far to promote the project outcomes as widely as possible within the identified stakeholder and target groups.

Keyword List: dissemination, awareness, events, publications


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Consortium

Role Name Short Name Country

1. Coordinator Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas CERTH Greece

2. R&D partner National University of Ireland, Galway NUIG Ireland

3. SME partner Fluid Operations AG FLUIDOPS Germany

4. SME partner SWIRRL IT LIMITED SWIRRL UK

5. SME partner ProXML bvba ProXML Belgium


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Revision History

Version Date Revised by Reason

V0.1 14/10/2014 ProXML Initial draft

V0.2 20/10/2014 SWIRRL Input integrated

V0.3 20/10/2014 CERTH Input integrated

V0.4 21/10/2014 fluidOps Input integrated

V0.5 22/10/2014 ProXML Review version ready

V0.7 23/10/2014 SWIRRL Review comments

V0.9 24/10/2014 ProXML Review comments addressed

V1.0 30/10/2014 ProXML Final review

Statement of originality:

This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.


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Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 11

1.1 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................................. 11

1.2 AUDIENCE............................................................................................................................................... 11

1.3 STRUCTURE ............................................................................................................................................. 11

2 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................... 12

2.1 PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL .......................................................................................................................... 12

2.1.1 Logo ................................................................................................................................................ 12

2.1.2 Leaflet ............................................................................................................................................. 12

2.1.3 Stickers ............................................................................................................................................ 15

2.1.4 Project Card .................................................................................................................................... 15

2.1.5 Project Graphic ............................................................................................................................... 16

2.1.6 Banner ............................................................................................................................................. 17

2.1.7 Project Fact Sheet ........................................................................................................................... 18

2.2 WEBSITE ................................................................................................................................................ 19

2.2.1 OpenCube Project website .............................................................................................................. 19

2.2.2 Developer community website ........................................................................................................ 23

2.2.3 Demo website ................................................................................................................................. 23

2.2.4 Partner websites ............................................................................................................................. 24

2.3 OPENCUBE MEDIA ACCOUNTS .................................................................................................................... 26

2.3.1 Twitter............................................................................................................................................. 26

2.3.2 LinkedIn account ............................................................................................................................. 28

2.3.3 Slideshare Account .......................................................................................................................... 28

2.3.4 Vimeo Account ................................................................................................................................ 29

2.4 EVENTS .................................................................................................................................................. 29

2.4.1 Self-organised events ...................................................................................................................... 29

2.4.2 Participation in events organised by others .................................................................................... 29

2.5 TARGET GROUP INFILTRATION ..................................................................................................................... 33

2.5.1 Producers ........................................................................................................................................ 33

2.5.2 Consumers ...................................................................................................................................... 33

2.6 CODE PUBLISHING .................................................................................................................................... 34

2.7 PUBLICATIONS ......................................................................................................................................... 34

2.7.1 Academic......................................................................................................................................... 34

2.7.2 Business .......................................................................................................................................... 35

2.8 PRESS RELEASES ....................................................................................................................................... 35

2.8.1 At the start of the project ............................................................................................................... 35

2.8.2 At the first official release of the OpenCube Toolkit ....................................................................... 38

3 ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 39

4 MEASUREMENT CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS .................................................................................... 41

4.1 STATUS .................................................................................................................................................. 41

4.2 DISCUSSION ............................................................................................................................................ 42


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5 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................ 43

6 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................. 44


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List of Figures FIGURE 1. OPENCUBE LOGO ........................................................................................................................................ 12

FIGURE 2. OPENCUBE LEAFLET ..................................................................................................................................... 15

FIGURE 3. OPENCUBE STICKERS .................................................................................................................................... 15

FIGURE 4. OPENCUBE CARD ........................................................................................................................................ 16

FIGURE 5. OPENCUBE GRAPHIC .................................................................................................................................... 17

FIGURE 6. OPENCUBE BANNER ..................................................................................................................................... 18

FIGURE 7. OPENCUBE FACTSHEET ................................................................................................................................. 19

FIGURE 8. OPENCUBE RSS FEED................................................................................................................................... 21

FIGURE 9. OPENCUBE E-MAIL NEWSLETTER .................................................................................................................... 21

FIGURE 10. OPENCUBE TOOLKIT DEVELOPER’S WEBSITE ................................................................................................... 23

FIGURE 11. OPENCUBE TOOLKIT DEMO SITE ................................................................................................................... 23

FIGURE 12. OPENCUBE ON FLUIDOPS WEBSITE ............................................................................................................... 24

FIGURE 13. OPENCUBE ON CERTH’S WEBSITE ............................................................................................................... 25

FIGURE 14. OPENCUBE ON SWIRRL’S BLOG .................................................................................................................. 26

FIGURE 15. OPENCUBE TWITTER ACTIVITY ANALYTICS....................................................................................................... 28

FIGURE 16. OPENCUBE GITHUB ACCOUNT .................................................................................................................... 34

FIGURE 17. OPENCUBE MENTIONED IN CERTH’S BUSINESS NEWSLETTER ............................................................................. 35

FIGURE 18. OPENCUBE PRESS CLIPPINGS ........................................................................................................................ 38


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List of Tables TABLE 1. PLANNED ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW ...................................................................................................................... 39

TABLE 2. MEASUREMENT CRITERIA ............................................................................................................................... 41


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List of Abbreviations

The following table presents the acronyms used in the deliverable in alphabetical order.

Abbreviation Description

EC European Commission

EU European Union

DOW Description of Work

LOD Linked Open Data

LOSD Linked Open Statistical Data

RSS Rich Site Summary

TBD To be decided


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Executive Summary

This report describes the dissemination activities carried out during the first year of the project,

including information on, amongst others, the print material produced, the websites developed, the

social media accounts established and how (well) they have been used.

The OpenCube consortium has been successful according to the dissemination plan for most of our

planned activities except for the organisation of own events such as webcasts and workgroups,

which we decided to postpone till the second year. This is because we collectively felt they would

come too early, the components not being production ready yet, and that it was better to collect

feedback first from the pilot sites and implement, based on this input, a first round of ameliorations.

An area where OpenCube has gained very good results is establishing connections with local

statistical offices and other governmental organisations other than the project’s pilots. Some of

them were very eager to communicate their specific requirements and needs and went even further

by supplying the project with relevant controlled vocabularies and other datasets.

The focus during the second year will go to organising webcasts and workshops, delivering much

more content on certain channels such as the RSS feed, the e-mail newsletter, vimeo, slideshare, etc.

and continuing our good relationships with our target groups.


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1 Introduction

1.1 Scope and objectives

The scope of this report is the dissemination activities carried out during the first year of the project.

The report aims to describe:

the dissemination activities done

the dissemination activities planned for the near future

where the actual implementation was according to plan and, where not, what the reasons,

rationale were for the deviation

what needs to be (better) done during the second year.

1.2 Audience

This deliverable is intended for:

The European Commission

The project partners (CERTH, NUIG, fluidOps, SWIRRL, ProXML)

1.3 Structure

The structure of the document is as follows:

In the second chapter we give an overview of the dissemination activities and channels

used:

o Print material

o Websites

o Social media accounts

o Event participation

o Target group infiltration

o Publications

After that we indicate which of the planned activities as indicated in D5.2 have been carried

out according to plan.

In the fourth chapter we evaluate where we stand according to the success criteria

formulated in D5.2.

In the closing chapter we indicate what we need to focus on during the next year.


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2 Dissemination activities

2.1 Promotional material

2.1.1 Logo

Our logo is used consistently in all the communications of the project. It is one of the constituents of

our project identity.

Figure 1. OpenCube logo

It can be found at http://opencube-project.eu/sites/default/files/new_opencubelogo.png and at

http://opencube-project.eu/pr-material.

2.1.2 Leaflet

This leaflet has been handed out at following events:

European Data Forum, Athens, Greece, March 19th-20th 2014 (CERTH)

smeSpire linked data training, Louvain, Belgium, April 28th 2014 (ProXML)

PiLOD2 closing event, Hilversum, Netherlands, June 25th 2014 (ProXML)

Flemish Open Data Day, Brussels, Belgium, October 3rd 2014 (ProXML)

Semstats 2014, Trentino, Italy, October 19th 2014 (CERTH)

ISWC 2014, Trentino, Italy, October 20th – 23rd 2014 (CERTH)

Next planned events in the near future:

R event, Brussels, Belgium, November 11th 2014 (ProXML)

PublishMyData User Group meeting, December 16th 2014 (Swirrl)

http://opencube-project.eu/sites/default/files/new_opencubelogo.png

http://opencube-project.eu/pr-material


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Figure 2. OpenCube leaflet

2.1.3 Stickers

OpenCube stickers are also available for dissemination.

Figure 3. OpenCube stickers

2.1.4 Project Card

We made a card that allows a quick scan of what the project is about.


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Figure 4. OpenCube card

This card can be found at http://www.opencube-project.eu/pr-material

2.1.5 Project Graphic

We produced a graphic that visualizes the targeted users and the functionalities the project

outcomes will be offering.

It comes in 2 flavours: horizontal and vertical. The horizontal one is incorporated in the leaflet; the

vertical one in the banner.

http://www.opencube-project.eu/pr-material


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Figure 5. OpenCube graphic

Both graphics can be downloaded at http://www.opencube-project.eu/pr-material

2.1.6 Banner

The banner has been used at following events:

Pilod2 closing, Hilversum, Netherlands, June 25th 2014 (ProXML)


ISWC2014, Semstats 2014, Trentino, Italy, October 19th – 23rd (CERTH)

http://www.opencube-project.eu/pr-material


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Figure 6. OpenCube banner

2.1.7 Project Fact Sheet

A factsheet outlining the project’s rationale, objectives and its intended results is available in the

‘Deliverables’ section of the website at http://www.opencube-project.eu/d61.

http://www.opencube-project.eu/d61


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Figure 7. OpenCube Factsheet

2.2 Website

2.2.1 OpenCube Project website

2.2.1.1 Website

An up-to-date website has been setup at http://opencube-project.eu/.

http://opencube-project.eu/


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The website contains:

o the work package deliverables and milestones of the project

o project news

o info on the consortium partners

o a description of the pilots

o project deliverables (software and publications)

o promotional material

o related events

o contact information.

2.2.1.2 Newsfeed

The website publishes also a newsfeed. The address of this RSS feed is

http://www.opencube-project.eu/feed.

http://www.opencube-project.eu/feed


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Figure 8. OpenCube RSS feed

Only the major events have been published until now.

2.2.1.3 E-mail newsletter

The website also allows to subscribe to the project’s e-mail newsletter.

Figure 9. OpenCube e-mail newsletter

The subscription facility has been set up, but no content has been disseminated yet.


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The website statistics as collected by Google analytics:


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2.2.2 Developer community website

One of the project’s deliverables is the open source OpenCube Toolkit. The consortium aims

at building a developer’s community around it, hence a separate and dedicated website. It

can be found at http://opencube-toolkit.eu/,

Figure 10. OpenCube Toolkit Developer’s website

It contains:

o Download and installation instructions

o Links to the developer’s mailing list, the source code and an issues tracker

o Links to the demonstration website

2.2.3 Demo website

This is a running instance of the OpenCube Toolkit.

Figure 11. OpenCube Toolkit demo site

It contains:

http://opencube-toolkit.eu/


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o the developed components and their respective documentation

o sample datasets from Eurostat and the Flemish Research Department

o example wiki pages exploiting several components to display and analyse the

supplied datasets.

It can be found at: http://data.fluidops.net/resource/StartPage?view=wiki.

2.2.4 Partner websites

2.2.4.1 fluidOps

fluidOps published project information on their website.

Figure 12. OpenCube on fluidOps website

2.2.4.2 CERTH

OpenCube mentioned on the CERTH website:

http://data.fluidops.net/resource/StartPage?view=wiki


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Figure 13. OpenCube on CERTH’s website

2.2.4.3 SWIRRL

The same for SWIRRL on their blog pages.


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Figure 14. OpenCube on SWIRRL’s blog

2.3 OpenCube media accounts

We established following media accounts:

Twitter account

to announce OpenCube news and achievements and to post OpenCube relevant topics

https://twitter.com/OpenCubeProject#

LinkedIn account

to build a community around Linked Statistical Data and the OpenCube solutions rather

aimed at business people

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/OpenCube-Project-7449646

Slideshare account

to publish all OpenCube relevant presentations at a single point of access

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenCubeProject

Vimeo account (screencasts)

to publish all OpenCube relevant video material (screencasts, recorded webinars) at a single

point of access: https://vimeo.com/opencubeproject

2.3.1 Twitter

Twitter account analytics:

https://vimeo.com/opencubeproject


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Figure 15. OpenCube Twitter activity analytics

2.3.2 LinkedIn account

We decided to first get traction in the developer’s community and only start addressing business

users in the second year. The LinkedIn account is specifically aimed at this target group.

There are 14 community members for the moment.

2.3.3 Slideshare Account

Three slide desks have been published:

A presentation of the OpenCube Project (126 views)

A presentation of the OpenCube Toolkit (106 views)

The slides used at the ISWC2014 and SemStats 2014 events (234 views)


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2.3.4 Vimeo Account

No multimedia assets have been published yet, since we decided to first gather feedback from the

pilots and implement, based on this feedback, a first round of ameliorations of the software

components before publishing screencasts.

According to the updated dissemination plan screencasts of the major OpenCube Toolkit

components will become available starting November 2014.

2.4 Events

2.4.1 Self-organised events

2.4.1.1 Webinars

The consortium decided to first gather feedback from the pilots and implement, based on this

feedback, a first round of ameliorations of the software components before organizing webinars.

The next webinars upcoming are:

TARQL organised by NUIG.

an overview of all the OpenCube Toolkit components by fluidOps. This is planned to be

organised in May/June of 2015 after the release of the Toolkit containing all envisaged

components.

2.4.1.2 Workshops

The consortium decided to do this properly during the second year bringing producers and

consumers/users together.

Planned workshops are:

EGOV 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece by CERTH

Open Data Days 2015, Brussels, Belgium by ProXML

PilOD 2015, April 2nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands by ProXML

Workshops still to be planned by NUIG, fluidOps and SWIRRL.

2.4.2 Participation in events organised by others

Partners of the consortium attended the following events to promote OpenCube:

Open Data Days, Ghent, Belgium, February, 19th 2014 (ProXML)

Open Data Edinburgh, UK, March 13th 2014 (Swirrl)


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European Data Forum, Athens, Greece, March, 19th – 20th 2014 (CERTH)

Scottish Linked Data Workshop, Aberdeen, UK, March 25th 2014 (Swirrl)

smeSpire linked data training, Louvain, Belgium, April 28th 2014 (ProXML)

PiLOD2 closing event, Hilversum, Netherlands, June 25th 2014 (ProXML)


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SemStats 2014, Trentino, Italy, October 19th 2014 (CERTH)


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ISWC 2014, Trentino, Italy, October 21th – 23rd 2014 (CERTH)

Open Data Edinburgh, UK, November 6th 2014 (Swirrl)

Planned attendances are:

R event, Brussels, Belgium, November 11th 2014 (ProXML)


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Data Summit 2015, Brussels, Belgium, March 5th 2015 (ProXML)

PiLOD3, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2nd 2015 (ProXML)

Open Data Days Flanders, Brussels, Belgium (ProXML)

2.5 Target group infiltration

In our initial dissemination plan we considered following target groups.

2.5.1 Producers

On the publishing side we identified these as our main target groups:

The creators of the statistical data themselves

Those responsible for open data portals.

We succeeded to have presentations for and meetings with:

CBS (Centraal Bureau van de Statistiek), Netherlands

The decision has been made to organise a follow-up meeting. This will be combined with the

OpenCube presentation at PiLOD, April 2nd 2015, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

DGSEI (Directorate General Statistics and Economic Information) Belgium.

This one was especially fruitful since they communicated a lot of requirements based on

their experiences and needs.

In addition they supplied the reference versions of 2 controlled vocabularies that are also

used by the SVR.

They are very eager to test and evaluate themselves.

All open data portals in Belgium (Federal, Flemish, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Kortrijk,

Namur, …)

UK public sector organisations publishing statistical data: The Scottish Government,

Hampshire County Council, Glasgow City Council, North Yorkshire County Council, Surrey

County Council, Trafford Council, Salford Council, Manchester Council, Scottish

Environmental Protection Agency

2.5.2 Consumers

On the consuming side we identified following target groups:

Software Developers

Analysts

Researchers

Data journalists


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Citizens

2.5.2.1 Developers

For the software developers we created a dedicated community website (cf. supra).

At upcoming consortium partner meetings we will invite the local open data enthusiasts and hackers

for a demo on the tools. We will try this out during our next partner meeting in Manchester.

NUIG is involved in the Apps4Gaps competition (http://vmuss08.deri.ie/apps4gaps/).

2.5.2.2 Analysts

We will be trying to reach analysts and data journalists by participating in upcoming events such as

‘R community’ and ‘data summit’ events.

We will be attending:

o The useR! Conference 2015, Aalborg, Denmark, , June 30 - July 3 2015 (ProXML)

o Data Summit Brussels 2015, Brussels, Belgium, March 5th 2015 (ProXML)

2.6 Code publishing

The source code of our open source components is available at https://github.com/opencube-

toolkit/

Figure 16. OpenCube GitHub Account

There is also an issue tracker in the same environment.

2.7 Publications

2.7.1 Academic

Two articles have been published:

Creating and Utilizing Linked Open Statistical Data for the Development of Advanced Analytics

Services, E. Kalampokis, A. Karamanou, A. Nikolov, P. Haase, R. Cyganiak, B. Roberts, P. Hermans,

E. Tambouris, K. Tarabanis, 2014, Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics

http://vmuss08.deri.ie/apps4gaps/

https://github.com/opencube-toolkit/

https://github.com/opencube-toolkit/


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(SemStats2014) in conjunction with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference

(ISWC2014), 19-23 October 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, CEUR-WS proceedings

Exploiting Linked Data Cubes with OpenCube Toolkit, E. Kalampokis, A. Nikolov, P. Haase, R.

Cyganiak, A. Stasiewicz, A. Karamanou, M. Zotou, D. Zeginis, E. Tambouris, K. Tarabanis, 2014,

Proc. of the ISWC 2014 Posters and Demos Track a track within 13th International Semantic Web

Conference (ISWC2014), 19-23 October 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, CEUR-WS

Vol.1272http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1272/paper_109.pdf.

2.7.2 Business

CERTH’s 9th newsletter incorporated a brief presentation of OpenCube. The newsletter has been

forwarded to approximately 6500 enterprises and public agencies in Greece.

Figure 17. OpenCube mentioned in CERTH’s business newsletter

2.8 Press releases

The press releases describe the project goals and its accomplishments in a simple, jargon free and

attracting language. They target the international press in addition to the specialised national and

local press of the projects’ partners. They are issued at the start of the project and at the important

milestones.

2.8.1 At the start of the project

The first press release has been sent out to interested media partners. It can be found at

http://opencube-project.eu/press-releases and the list of distribution channels (who sent

what to whom) is kept in a Google document at

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At_yBaJxClTpdDVPM0N3dThJQmtxRzI4WUt

Nc3U5R2c&usp=docslist_api#gid=0

The press release was published at:

The open data portal of the Flemish government

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1272/paper_109.pdf

http://opencube-project.eu/press-releases

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At_yBaJxClTpdDVPM0N3dThJQmtxRzI4WUtNc3U5R2c&usp=docslist_api#gid=0

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At_yBaJxClTpdDVPM0N3dThJQmtxRzI4WUtNc3U5R2c&usp=docslist_api#gid=0


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LOD Nederland LinkedIn Group


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ePSI platform


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semanticweb.com

Figure 18. OpenCube press clippings

2.8.2 At the first official release of the OpenCube Toolkit

The second press release will be sent out when the OpenCube Toolkit and the

supporting website at http://opencube-toolkit.eu/ will be launched.

http://opencube-toolkit.eu/


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3 Activities overview

Hereunder we took the planned activities agenda as described in D5.2 and indicated which of the

activities have been performed.

Table 1. Planned Activities overview

Period Activity Responsible Accomplished

M1 November 2013 OpenCube website CERTH √

Project Fact Sheet CERTH √

M2 December 2013 Press release start project ProXML √

M3 January 2014 Leaflet ProXML √

M4 February 2014 Participation ‘Open Data

Days’, Ghent, Belgium

ProXML √

M5 March 2014 Participation ‘European

Data Days’, Athens,

Greece

CERTH √

M6 April 2014

M7 May 2014 Participation ‘ESWC’,

Anissaras, Greece

TBD - (no available staff

to visit)

M8 June 2014

M9 July 2014 Participation ‘Open

Knowledge Conference’,

Berlin, Germany

TBD - (no available staff

to visit)

M10 August 2014 Press release OpenCube

toolkit and platforms

ProXML √

M11 September 2014 Webcast TARQL NUIG Rescheduled to

early second year

M12 October 2014 Webcast ‘OpenCube

Toolkit’

fluidOps Rescheduled to the

second year

Participation ‘ISWC’,

Trentino, Italy

CERTH, fluidOps √

Participation

‘Semstatistics’, Trentino,

Italy

CERTH, fluidOps √


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M13 November 2014 Press release pilot ProXML On plan

Webcast ‘PublishMyData’ SWIRRL Rescheduled to

early second year

M14 December 2014

M15 January 2015

M16 February 2015

M17 March 2015

M18 April 2015


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4 Measurement criteria for success

In the following overview you can find the identified measurable criteria for success of the

OpenCube dissemination activities.

4.1 Status

We added the actual status. The rows in grey are not relevant yet, since these channels have not

been fully exploited yet.

Table 2. Measurement criteria

Criterion Responsible for

measurement

Target Status

Press clippings ProXML 15 4

Members subscribed to newsletter CERTH 100 4

Twitter followers ProXML 200 85

Retweets ProXML 500 79

Members of LinkedIn Group ProXML 40 14

Postings on LinkedIn Group ProXML 25 2

Views on slideshare ProXML 250 More than

400

Downloads on slideshare ProXML 50 1

Views on Vimeo ProXML 500

Website statistics CERTH 500 views

per month

200 sessions

per month

with an

average of

2,73 pages

per session.

Talks and presentations given at

events

ProXML 25 3

Academia: number of publications CERTH/NUIG 4 2

Workshops held + number of

attendees

All 5, 50 each 0 (Will be

organized

after the

official

release of


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the

OpenCube

Toolkit)

Registrations in Webcasts ProXML 30 per

webcast

Postings in related LinkedIn and

Google groups

ProXML 24 (Will be

done after

the official

release of

the

OpenCube

Toolkit)

4.2 Discussion

We are behind the initial plan regarding events and content we promised to produce ourselves.

The main reasons are that:

We did not take properly into account in the original plan that it would take time to

create interesting results to discuss, present and/or promote.

As long as there was nothing interesting enough to show we decided it would be better

to keep the profile low since excessive publicity about ‘vapourware’ can have a negative

effect on people’s perceptions of a project.


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5 Conclusion

In this report we gave an overview of the dissemination activities carried out during the first year of

the project.

OpenCube managed to produce a widely applicable range of printed dissemination materials:

leaflets, stickers and banners.

OpenCube developed more websites than initially anticipated. We have 3 now:

one presenting the project,

one aimed at developers interested in the open source OpenCube Toolkit components,

one as demo site utilising the OpenCube Toolkit components.

With a LinkedIn group aimed at business users we believe we are able to cover all audiences now

with dedicated content.

OpenCube established a presence at important media such as twitter, linkedin, slideshare and

vimeo, where the twitter account has been utilised most and the slidedecks published at slideshare

did get good exposure.

OpenCube partners have been attending the events as put forward in our dissemination plan, but

we didn’t manage to organise our own events such as webinars and workshops. The reason was that

we collectively felt they would come too early, the components not production ready yet, and that it

was better to collect feedback first from the pilot sites and implement based on this input a first

round of ameliorations.

What was very successful was the contacts established with several local statistical departments and

other government organisations. Those came up with requirements and needs in addition to those

collected at the pilot partners.

The consortium’s focus during the second year will go to:

organising webcasts and workshops

delivering much more content on certain channels such as the RSS feed, the e-mail

newsletter, vimeo, slideshare, …

continuing our good relationships with our target groups.


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6 References

IACEE (1999). Tools for planning the dissemination of project results.

Thompson MF, Green L, Hernández-Cordero LJ, Fullilove RE (2006). Obvious and Not-So-Obvious

Strategies to Disseminate Research. Health Promotion Practice, 7(3), 306-311.


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Annex A – Partner’s communication channels

CERTH

Website:

http://islab.uom.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=3&lang=en

NUIG

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FLUIDOPS

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• LinkedIn Group: fluidOps

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• Perspektive Mittelstand (DE) http://www.perspektive-mittelstand.de/

• News4Press (DE) http://www.news4press.com

SWIRRL

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LinkedIn groups

o Euclid

o LinkingOpenData

o OWL/RDF

o Ontologies, OWL-S, SPARQL interest group

o Semantic World

o Semantic Technologies Group

o Semantic-Web

o Semanticweb.com

o LOD Nederland (the Netherlands)

o Semantic Technology Benelux (Benelux)

Google Plus groups

o BOLD (Business of Linked Open Data)

Meetup

o BigData Belgium

Documents

OpenCube Publishing and Enriching Linked Open Statistical ...opencube-project.eu/sites/default/files/OpenCube_D5.3_OpenCube Interim...Publishing and Enriching Linked Open Statistical