1. TOOLS & Projects overview
Arkadiusz Stasiewicz

2. OpenCube
Publishing and Enriching Linked Open Statistical Data for the Development of Data Analytics and Enhanced Visualization Services

4. Background Open (Gov) Data are very important for the EU
A big portion of Open Data concerns statistics
Statistical data is often organized as data cubes, where each cell contains a measure described based on a number of dimensions.
Users frequently blend & combine statistical data from multiple sources.
These data usually resides in files and databases (data silos) that are hard to combine.

5. Linked Data
Linked Data has the potential to enable combining and performing analytics on top of disparate and previously isolated statistical data
The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary has been proposed for modelling multi- dimensional data as RDF graphs.

6. Benefits
Enable analysis not possible before (merging data cubes at a Web scale)
Lower entry barrier to SMEs to exploit this new technology
Facilitate publishers to create linked data cubes from legacy formats
Empower users to browse, visualise, link, expand and analyse data cubes.

7. Results - Visualizing a measure in MapView

8. Results – OLAP Browser

9. Results - TARQL
Tool for converting CSV files to RDF accordingly to SPARQL 1.1 syntax.
The data cubes are generated based on the provided, easy to modify, query templates.
Stream CSV processing
Use of column headers as variable names

10. OpenGovIntelligence
Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Europe through Public Administration Modernisation towards Supplying and Exploiting Linked Open Statistical Data

11. Project Consortium 12 Participants from 7 Countries 2.8 M€ funding
research, industry, pilots
2.8 M€ funding
Duration: 36 months (starting February 2016)

12. Motivation – Open Government Data
Public administration publishes Open Data in an ad-hoc manner. They also design and deliver services in a top-down manner.
On the other hand, society has needs and data-driven public services, not raw data, can address these needs.
As a result, society should be involved in service co-production to ensure that public services address their needs.

13. Motivation – Open Statistical Data
Statistical Data is one of the five thematic dataset categories in highest demand from re-users across the EU (EC, 2014)
Statistical data is often organized as data cubes, where each cell contains a measure described based on a number of dimensions.

14. Motivation – Data Fragmentation
Open Statistical Data are fragmented
Searching on data.gov.uk for “unemployment” datasets:
122 results (links and files)
These results provide access to 56 files and 610 links
These links lead to 18 other portals
Through them to more than 2000 other files

15. The JSON-QB API
Aims to exploit the advantages of LOSD (e.g. easy data integration)
Support web developers use statistical data stored in the form of an RDF Data Cube
Assume minimal knowledge of Linked Data

16. The OLAP Browser
Allows users interactively view and analyze data from different perspectives
Enables the discovery of datasets on the Web of Linked Data that are structural compatible to integrate
Enables the creation of integrated views of multiple datasets.
Based on the JSON-QB API for the implementation.

17. Data Cube Explorer
Web-based tool that catalogues and presents details of available data cubes to the users.
Enables users to preview cube data using pivot table, cube browser and other visualization widgets.
It is offering customizable statistical analysis

18. YDS

19. Overview An EU Funded Project INSO-1-2014: ICT-enabled open government
Starting Date: February 1st, 2015
Duration: 36 months
Highlights
Pilot tools to increase the transparency impact of ICT-based technology platforms of the public sector
The transparency tools to be piloted should benefit from open data and help in monitoring, enhancing accountability & fighting corruption

20. Open Data

21. Open Data

22. Open Data Many datasets available Many areas covered Big, Open, Linked
Scale, access, use
But…
Diverse and Incompatible
Lack of standardization
Lack of visibility of existing data
Citizens/users do not seem to be attracted by the existing solutions and tools

28. ROUTE-TO-PA
Raising Open and User-friendly Transparency-Enabling Technologies fOr Public Administrations

29. ROUTE-TO-PA Project
Project mission is to improve the engagement of citizens by making them able to socially interact over open data, by forming or joining existing online communities that share common interest and discuss common issues. How can open data and open data platform afford better transparency of public administration?

30. Project in numbers 12 Participants from 6 Countries 3 M€ funding
research, industry, pilots
3 M€ funding
3 research products
Duration: 36 months (starting February 2015)

31. Project aims
develop a Social Platform for Open Data (SPOD) enabling social interactions among open data users and between open data users and government data;
build Transparency-Enhancing Toolset (TET) as extensions for existing major Open Data Platforms; and
develop a set of recommendations (GUIDE) as good practice guide for open data publishers for achieving higher quality transparency through open data.

32. Results – SPOD – Social Platform for Open Data
Discussions
Comments
‘Likes’
Networks
Data catalog
Visualisations

33. Results – SPOD – Visualizations

34. Results - TET

35. Results - Search Results

36. Results - Filtering and ordering

37. Results - Dataset Details

38. Results - Dataset Summary

39. Questions