Open Government Data - The Next Generation

Danube University Krems.The University for Continuing Education.

Open Government Data

Department for E-Governance

Department for E-GovernanceDanube University Krems. The University for Continuing Education.

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Agenda

• Open Government Data in AustriaOrganisational Setting & Reusable Patterns

• Evaluation of Open Government Data Portal ViennaLessons Learned and Take aways

• Collaboration towards a unified OGD ecosystemDACH-area and European perspective

• Prospect for future research

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1. OGD in Austria - History

1. Public urge– Started 2009 by Citizen Democracy Interest groups

(eg. meinparlament.at, Open3.at)– Approaching administration through City of Vienna public funded

research project opendata.at– Bottom-up initiatives by scraping existing

public data sets

2. Administrative response– Public discussion started spring 2011 by City of Linz (“CC-region”)– Inception of Cooperation OGD Austria summer 2010– Fall 2011: City of Vienna pioneers first government-driven

OGD portal– Spring 2012: data.gv.at– Today: 898 datasets by 20 organisations of every federal level

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1. OGD in Austria – Reusable patterns

• Steering committee Cooperation OGD Austria– Ad-hoc and informal collaboration of public administration

entities– Sub-working groups including public (academia, business,

NGOs); “Collaboration of the eager and aware”– ~ 4 meetings a year to approve work by – or assign tasks

to – sub working groups

• Metadata description– Influenced by DCAT & INSPIRE, fully compatible to DCAT-AP– Version 2.1 stable since spring 2012– Coordinated with OGD Germany and Switzerland

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1. OGD in Austria - Principles

1. “Legal”– Provision: A dataset is an OGD dataset if it is released on an official data portal,

using CC-BY-license and described by an agreed meta data description– Ongoing: Liability concerns

2. Organisational– Cooperation OGD Austria steering committee, organized in working groups with

focus-topics (meta data, business needs, content federation)– No regulatory power, though directly advising public administration and “BLSG”-

working group

3. Technical– CKAN repository (minimal adaptions to be released as OS)– 3-stars according to TBL-taxonomy– Meta data description heavily influenced by international standards and good

practice– Linked data: ongoing topic

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2. Evaluation of OGD Portal Vienna

• What: Report appointed by the CIO of the City of Vienna• Who: External (Citizen, Business, Academia, Journalists)

and internal (Vienna city departments) stakeholders• How: online questionnaire and face-to-face interviews,

comparative text analysis, desk research• Timeframe: Summer 2012• Outcome:

– Extended executive summary released as CC-BY, results published to journal (on review)http://data.wien.gv.at/neuigkeiten/wege/mut-zu-neuen-wegen.html

– Roadmap 2013

http://data.wien.gv.at/neuigkeiten/wege/mut-zu-neuen-wegen.html

http://data.wien.gv.at/neuigkeiten/wege/mut-zu-neuen-wegen.html

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2. Evaluation of OGD Portal Vienna – Key findings

• Good– Unambiguous organisational setting– Reusing what is available (CMS instead CKAN)

• Fair– OGD public relations – Funding schemes take OGD into account

• Room for improvement– Besides GIS, no backend integration– Not integrated in Open Government initiatives

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2. Evaluation of OGD Portal Vienna – Take away

• Create a clear content and communication strategy• Know your stakeholders; integrate their opinionated

leaders, listen, solve, reward• Embrace openness as the default; Results of publicly

funded projects may be released as CC by default• Understand the platform idea; Channel forces and

integrate Initiatives• Proper information management is the basis for

Linked Open Data, Big Data• Evolute rather than revolute

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3. Combining OGD endeavours

• Mostly harmonized Meta data description between Austria and Germany

• Switzerland uses the Austrian Meta data description• Active contribution to the ISA DCAT-AP working

grouphttps://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/description

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/description



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3. Combining OGD endeavours – Mapping AT DE

• DE & AT Metadata descriptions are freely available,DE:http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/fraunhoferfokus/ogd-metadata/blob/master/OGPD_JSON_Schema.html

AT:http://reference.e-government.gv.at/uploads/media/OGD-Metadaten_2_1_2012_10.pdf

• Mapping possible with high consistency, but not entirely automatic

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/fraunhoferfokus/ogd-metadata/blob/master/OGPD_JSON_Schema.html




http://reference.e-government.gv.at/uploads/media/OGD-Metadaten_2_1_2012_10.pdf




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3. Combining OGD endeavours: DCAT-AP (Intermission)

• DCAT-AP IS– A specification, which relies on DCAT– Appointed by ISA as a call for tenders

• DCAT-AP CAN– Describe Metadata fields and supporting infrastructure

(eg. a data portal)

• DCAT-AP will become– The meta data format of the European Open Data portal

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3. Combining OGD endeavours: Active support of DCAT-AP

Austrian meta data recommendation maps lossless to DCAT-AP

Name [DE] ID CKAN-ID Cardinality Controled Vocabulary Required / Optional Property Cardinality OccurrenceCatalog:dataset N MCatalog:description N MCatalog:license 1 MCatalog:publisher 1 MCatalog:title N M

Eindeutiger Identifikator metadata_identifier extras:metadata_identifier 1 dcterms:identifier R Dataset:identifier N ODatum des Metadatensatzes metadata_modified extras:metadata_modified 1 dcterms:issued R CatalogRecord:update/modification date 1 MTitel des Metadatensatzes title title 1 dcterms:title (mit language tag "de") R Dataset:title N MBeschreibung description notes 1 dcterms:abstract R Dataset:description N MKategorie categorization extras:categorization[“…“,“…“] N dcat:theme R Dataset:theme/category;Maybe Category:preferred label N RSchlagworte keywords tags N dcat:keyword R Dataset:keyword/tag N RDatensatz oder Dienst Link resource_url resources:url N dcat:accessURL R Distribution:download URL N ODatensatz oder Dienst Format resource_format resources:format N dcterms:format R Distribution:format, Distribution:media type 1 ODatenverantwortliche Stelle maintainer maintainer 1 dcelements:creator R Agent:name N MLizenz license license 1 dcterms:license (sollte URI des Lizenzdokuments sein) R Distribution:license; Maybe License Document:license type 1 MZeitliche Ausdehnung (Anfang) begin_datetime extras:begin_datetime 1 dcterms:temporal R ~ Dataset:temporal coverage N ODatensatz oder Dienst Bezeichner resource_name resources:name N rdfs:literal O Distribution:title N OBezeichnung der Metadatenstruktur schema_name extras:schema_name 1 dcterms:alternative O Implicitly by vocabulary URISprache des Metadatensatzes schema_language extras:schema_language 1 dcterms:language O There is no equivalent in DCAT-AP, however it can be implicitly modelled using RDF:lang annotationsCharacter Set Code des Metadatensatzes schema_characterset extras:schema_characterset 1 cnt:characterEncoding OWeiterführende Metadaten metadata_linkage extras:metadata_linkage N dcat:dataDictionary O Distribution:access URL N MAttributbeschreibung attribute_description extras:attribute_description 1 dcterms:description OKontaktseite der datenverantwortlichen Stelle maintainer_link extras:maintainer_link 1 dcterms:creator O Dataset:contact point N RDatensatz oder Dienst Veröffentlichungsdatum resource_created resources:created 1 dcterms:issued O Dataset:release date 1 ODatensatz oder Dienst Änderungsdatum resource_lastmodifiedresources:last_modified 1 dcterms:modified O Dataset:update/modification date 1 OVeröffentlichende Stelle publisher extras:publisher 1 dcelements:publisher O Dataset:publisher 1 MGeographische Abdeckung/Lage geographic_toponym extras:geographic_toponym 1 dcterms:description O Dataset:geographical coverage N OGeographische Ausdehnung geographic_bbox extras:geographic_bbox 1 dcterms:spatial O Dataset:geographical coverage N OZeitliche Ausdehnung (Ende) end_datetime extras:end_datetime 1 dcterms:temporal O ~ Dataset:temporal coverage N OAktualisierungszyklus update_frequency extras:update_frequency 1 dcterms:accrualPeriodicity O Dataset:frequency 1 ODatenqualität/Herkunft lineage_quality extras:lineage_quality 1 dcat:dataQuality OTitel und Beschreibung Englisch en_title_and_desc extras:en_title_and_desc 1 dcterms:abstract (mit language tag "en") O Dataset:title, Dataset:description using RDF literal language annotation “EN”Größe des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_size resources:size 1 dcat:bytes O Distribution:byteSize 1 OLizenz Zitat license_citation extras:license_citation 1 cc:attributionName OSprache des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_language resources:language 1 dcterms:language O Dataset:language N OCharacter Set Code des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_encoding resources:characterset 1 cnt:characterEncoding O

Cooperation OGD Österreich Metadata Description DCAT-AP V0.0.6

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4. The Next Generation - Prospect for future research

• Evaluate existing OGD implementations• Integrate

– OGD as an integral part of Open Government– OGD into government information flow

• Broaden scope of OGD towards OD and assure interoperability, usability and applicability

• Examine the role of O(G)D as a key information source of the Smart City / Smart Region

• Identify missing expertise towards large-scale OGD uptake

Deadline for the submission of papers,workshop proposals, reflections: 6. December 2013

Notification of acceptance7. February 2014

Camera-ready paper submission28 February 2014

Conference21. - 23. May 2014

• Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation• E-Democracy and E-Participation• E-Voting• Bottom-Up Movements• Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration• Open Collaborative Government • Democracy, Globalization and Migration• Connected Smart City• Technology and Architecture• Self-governance in Complex Networks• Rethinking Information Visualization for the• People • Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies• Design and Co-creation for E-democracy

• PhD Colloquium

Important Deadlines

Dr. Peter Parycek

Dr. Johann Höchtl

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