Greek Open Data current status and the OKFN Greece challenges

Dr. Charalampos Bratsas OKFN Greece Local Group Coordinator

Mathematics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Outline

• Timeline Evolution of The Web Open Data-Content-Knowledge

• Greek Open Data Status

• OKFN Greece :Why and how

• 5 Star Open Data

• Linked Open Data in Greece

• Demonstration of Open Data value via OKFNs applications and recently developed OKNF Greece demos

Open Data and Web

Greek Open Data: The beginning legal status

• Public Sector Information PSI (3448/2006) from Directive (2003/98/EC)

• GeoData (3448/2010) From INSPIRE(2007/2/EC)

• E-government (3979/2011) – Citizen2Gov

– Gov2Gov

– OpenData

• Cl@rity (Di@vgeia) (3861/2010)

Greek GeoData

• The first effort to offer citizens geospatial data existing in the wider public administration, free of charge

• 180 datasets currently available online

Greek Open Data http://geodata.gov.gr

Greece U.K U.S.A

Datasets 180 7.900 390.253

schools 1 637 3.060

museum 1 70 409

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Cl@rity Program (Δι@ύγεια)

• Public entities cannot implement decisions before uploading them in the Clarity website

• Interested parties can search for acts and decisions using keywords and thematic meta-data

• Achieves maximum publicity of government policy and administrative activities

• Ensures transparency and accountability on the part of institutions exercising public authority

• Published acts (as of March 2012): 3.927.251

OKFN Greece: WHY

Open knowledge can

– Offer a transparent and accountable way to prevent corruption and monitor funding in Greece

– Provide easy access to extensive Greek cultural heritage

– Help the community to absorb research results and exploit them in educational and commercial activities

– Reinforce employment and economic growth based on innovative tools and services around open data

OKFN Greece: HOW

Dissemination: Promote the idea of open data and open knowledge • Organize meet-ups and

build communities • Reach people through

social media • Participate in public

consultation

Development: Build new or reuse the OKFN applications to demonstrate the value of Open Data • Create linked open data,

by upgrading existing public datasets

• Create software and services that use existing linked open data

• Involve in relevant research projects

Open Data Handbook

The Open Data Handbook introduces the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. Now available in Greek language by Anastasia Dimou, Charalampos Bratsas

1st OKFN Greece short meet-up, (10/2/2012)

Results

CKAN Marathon: managed to increase the Greek Open data in CKAN from 5 to 57 datasets

1st OKFN Greece meet-up (10/2/2012)

Outcomes

CKAN Marathon: going from 5 to 57 datasets

Greek public open data assessment: 2-3 stars. (through results from research projects carried out by students of the Webscience Master Program of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

5 star open Data

★ make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license

★★ make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)

★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)

★★★★ use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff

★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide context

The more stars a dataset has, the more value and benefits it has to offer when used in applications.

OKFN Cl@rity Open Spending Where does Greek money go?

OpenSpending allows users to explore, structure and map different kinds of public finance from all around the world –and now from Greece-.

Greek LOD - Cl@rity Open Spending

A tree map representation of expenses of the various public entities : Municipalities, Prefectures, Ministries, Hospitals, Funds, Organizations, Institutes, Universities etc.

Greek LOD – Cl@rity & Police Viz

visual representation comparison graph between the criminality measures and the police funding per region

Greek LOD Application Greek DBpedia Game Based Learning

The quizzes are automatically generated from Greek Wikipedia’s data using the Greek DBpedia.

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