A new key portal for Open Energy Data

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Considering fast development in the web world, reegle has recently undergone a total make-over to establish itself at the forefront of energy and climate information once again:

1. Reegle is publishing all its data in an open format for free re-use2. Reegle is consuming Open Energy Data from the LOD cloud3. Reegle is the first energy portal to enter the LOD cloud4. Reegle constructs the most extensive thesaurus on RE and CCD5. Reegle offers comprehensive country energy profiles by merging authoritative

data6. Reegle has had a design make-over to reflect its top-of-the-league status

reegle re-loaded

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WHO?Governments and official agencies have pledged to make their data publicly available free for 3rd party re-use. WHY?

• More transparency• More efficient public service• Better use and re-use of

information• New combination of data

creates more value

Open Data?

HOW?• As raw data• Using W3C standards• In open and standard formats• Human AND machine read-able• Resource Description Framework (RDF)• Reference-able URIs

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Linked Open Data!

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• Less replication (offering same datasets in different places)

• Encouragement to re-use existing datasets

• Clear which datasets are providing similar / same information

• More innovation because datasets can be put in a new context and lead to interesting applications

• Put information in context and thereby create knowledge

What benefits?

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• www.reegle.info – well established quality information gateway• More than 220,000 users a month• Intelligent clean energy search including over 3,000 sources• New portal data.reegle.info launched in 2011

reegle as LOD producer/consumer

Now available for external free re-use in Linked Open Standard W3C standard on data.reegle.info :

• over 1,700 clean energy stakeholders worldwide• extensive glossary enriched with DBpedia linked

data definition (thesaurus)• project outcome documents, country policy reports

and DBpedia country description

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1. Clean Energy Search

reegle’s clean energy search is a unique tool to find high quality information on clean energy related topics, searching over 3,000 authoritative sources.

Based on reegle’ s thesaurus:• Refined search• Related search• Auto-complete

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2. Country Energy Profiles

As a reegle mesh-up, the country energy profiles provide a comprehensive set of energy-related information on over 200 countries including:

• Contact details of key stakeholders

• Overview on policy and regulations

• Links to project outcome documents programmes and tools

• Statistical data visualised charts

• Maps of renewable energy sources

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3. Catalogue of actors and stakeholders

reegle’s catalogue of actors and stakeholders ( ) contains information on and linksto over 1700 ministries, initiatives, partnerships and organizations involved in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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4. Energy and Climate Change Glossary

reegle’s extensive glossary ( ) based on the thesaurus describes more than 1500 terms on energy and climate compatible development and offers:• Definition and synonyms for each term

• Links to related, broader and narrower terms

• Visual browser showing how a term is semantically connected -symbolizing the scope of a concept or technology

• Information from other sources like Wikipedia

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Integrating reegle‘s data

data.reegle.info offers all free datas sets to be queried and used through the SPARQL endpoint:

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data.reegle.info

This free of charge service includes:

• Datasets in RDF to guarantee machine readable formats• Widgets and wordpress plugins for easy integration and many added benefits such

as automated tagging based on thesaurus• Detailed instructions on developer’s portal

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Demos

You can access the following resources for demonstration

• reegle.info LOD based country profiles: http://www.reegle.info/countries • reegle.info LOD based glossary: http://www.reegle.info/glossary • reegle.info LOD based Actors Catalogue: http://www.reegle.info/actors • reegle.info Clean Energy Search: http://www.reegle.info/clean-energy-search• reegle.info data & developer platform: http://data.reegle.info

• PoolParty demozone for extraction: http://poolparty.punkt.at/demozone/reegle • PoolParty Semantic Search demo: http://search.poolparty.punkt.at/alcedo/

15Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/

LOD cooperation example ...

”Knowledge is of two kinds.We know a subject ourselves orwe know where we can find information upon it”.Samuel Johnson 1775

Information gateway for renewableenergy and energy efficiency

Florian BauerOperations & IT Director, REEEP

Wagramerstrasse 5, A-1400 Wien, Austria

Web http://www.reeep.org , http://www.reegle.info Blog http://blog.reegle.info Twitter http://twitter.com/reegle

LinkedIN http://at.linkedin.com/in/florianbauerMail florian.bauer@reeep.orgSkype reeep_f.bauerPhone +43-1-26026 3714