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Digital Enterprise Research Institute A Network of Data and Knowledge Interconnected Universal All encompassing assists humans, organisations and systems with problem solving enabling innovation and increased productivity

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 4 of 46 Linked Data: Two Key Ingredients 1. RDF – Graph based Data  Identifies objects (URIs)  Interlink information (Relationships) 2. Vocabularies (Ontologies)  provide shared understanding of a domain  organise knowledge in a machine-comprehensible way  give an exploitable meaning to the data

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Why Graphs and Ontologies? Linked Data! Cities:Dublin 84421km2 Geo:IslandOfIreland EU:RepublicOfIreland Geo:locatedOn Geo:area Geo:hasCapital Geo:hasLargestCity Wikipedia.org Gov.ie EU:RepublicOfIreland Person:BrianCowen Gov:hasTaoiseach Gov:hasDepartment IE:DepartmentOfFinance

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Linked Open Data cloud - domains Over 200 open data sets with more than 25 billion facts, interlinked by 400 million typed links, doubling every 10 month! Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. Media Government Geo Publications User-generated Life sciences Cross-domain US government UK government BBC New York Times LinkedGeoData 6 BestBuy Overstock.com Facebook

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Digital Enterprise Research Institute Where should we locate the new factory?

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Where did our money go? TARP Funds

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Where do I place… A new hospital? A new school? A new shop? A new distribution centre? A new factory?

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Effects…. Reuse of the data, new business opportunities. Increase the citizen engagement and participation Improve eGovernment effectiveness and Interoperation: direct access, cut costs

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Open Data vs. Linkable Data Linkable, Open Data! Open Data  Equal access for all  Licensing, legal issues  Transparency  Changing the way government works Linkable Data  Easy to Integrate  Standards complient

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Digital Enterprise Research Institute educationdevelopmenttransportation decision based on facts!

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Examples from around the world … CountryOfficial?RatingDatasets SwedenN ★★ few New ZealandY ★★ many IrelandY ★★★ few CanadaY ★★★ many United StatesY* ★★★★ many SpainN ★★★★★ few United KingdomY ★★★★★ many*

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Digital Enterprise Research Institute data.gov.uk Provides guidance for all UK governmental agencies how to publish with Linked Data Lists datasets and applications for developers and end-customers We’re active in supporting this effort

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Linked Governmental Data in use … UK Public Sector Information Data Mashup

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Linked Governmental Data in use … Research Funding Explorer

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Linked Governmental Data in use … Comparing US and UK Global Foreign Aid

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Linked Governmental Data in use … Crime statistics

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Ireland: Fingal Open Data

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Italy: Tentino Open Data

Digital Enterprise Research Institute LATC:EC Governmental Datasets Will focus on three domains: business-related data, legal data, and data about European institutions Publish 20 datasets produced by European institutions with an expected volume of over 10 billion triples and 100 million links, such as:  Eurostat  CORDIS  European Job Mobility Portal  Euro-LEX  … “To create an in-depth test-bed for data intensive applications concerning EC governmental data.”

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Digital Enterprise Research Institute Standardisation eGovernment Interest Group (eGov IG) “The mission of the eGov IG is to explore how to improve access to government through better use of the Web and achieve better government transparency using open Web standards at any government level (local, state, national and multi-national)”

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Standardisation Projects  Outreach  Demonstration  Best Practices for Using Web Technologies to Deliver Government Services  Best Practices for Government Data Management  Best Practices for Government Use of Social Media  Data Catalog Vocabulary task force

Digital Enterprise Research Institute You’re sitting on a treasure chest … /