OPEN GOVERNMENT DATATHE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE
ODG Camp 2010, 18-19 Nov, London
Michele Barbera, Lorenzo Benussi, Stefano Costa, Federico Morando
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Italy License
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THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE•DATA P R O J E C T S
•R E S E A R C H P R O J E C T S
•C O M M U N I T I E S
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OPEN CAMERA
LICENSEno license!
FEATURESPart of a larger campaign of the Radical Party which
aims at creating a public register of public representatives
PEOPLE AND MONEY4 activists of the Radical Party
ABOUTData about the expenses of the Chamber of Deputies.
The Radical Party obtained data from the Chamber of Deputies a s p a r t o f i t s e l e c t o r a l programme, transformed it into open formats and published it on the Web.
HTTP://SERVIZI.RADICALPARTY.ORG/FRESHINSTALL/CAMERASPESE/TUTTEgiovedì 18 novembre 2010
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DATI.PIEMONTE.IT
LICENSECC0, CC-BY for the Website
FEATURESExplicit and detailed guidelines. First and only local PA
PEOPLE AND MONEYPiedmontese Consortium for Informatic
Services,Top-IX public/private consortium and the NEXA research Center for Internet &
Society
ABOUTMore than 45 datasets (CSV format).From data about students and schools to data about shops and commerce, going through turistic flows and related facilities;
2300 downloads, 13.500 unique visitors in the first 6 monthsThe project is led by the Regional Government of Piedmont.
HTTP://DATI.PIEMONTE.ITgiovedì 18 novembre 2010
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MIA PA
LICENSEIODL
FEATURESuses the recently drafted Italian Open Data License
(beta version)
PEOPLE AND MONEYMinistry of Public Administration and
Innovation and private companies
ABOUTIt's a project to geo-localize publ ic ser v ices and share information and evaluations about them.
Available data: data about public services (especially front desks): location, opening hours, etc.
HTTP://SAPERI.FORUMPA.IT/STORY/50925/E-NATA-MIAPA-IL-MINISTRO-BRUNETTA-PRESENTA-LA-PA-SU-MOBNOTES
1
25 ottobre 2010
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OPEN STREET MAPITALY
LICENSEopen license, ODbL
FEATURESmore than 200 active contributors (400 km mapped
each day on average), active since 2007
PEOPLE AND MONEYvolunteer work, based on the OSM Foundation
infrastructure (developers, sysadmin)
ABOUTCreates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants t h e m . O S M i n I t a l y w a s kickstarted in late 2007 and is o n e o f t h e m o s t a c t i v e communities in Europe.
HTTP://WIKI.OSM.ORGgiovedì 18 novembre 2010
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LINKED OPEN CAMERA
LICENSECC-BY-2.5-IT
FEATURESFocused on Linked Open Data & Semantic Web.
Soon to be extended to other national & local bottom-up gov Linked Open datasets
PEOPLE AND MONEY3 active volounteers + resources and consultancy
donated by Net7 srl
ABOUTCleaned up, enriched, Linked and RDFized data provided by Open Camera.
Tota l l y i ndependent f rom OpenCamera.
Offers acces to data via: RDF dump, SPARQL endpoint and a faceted browsing UI.
HTTP://WWW.LINKEDOPENCAMERA.ITgiovedì 18 novembre 2010
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OPENPOLIS - OPENPARLAMENTO
LICENSECC-BY-3.0-Unported
FEATURESUsers can and are encouraged to contribute data.
There is no API. Currently experimenting with Linked Data, which will be released with a non-commercial
license.
PEOPLE AND MONEY6 person staff paid by Depp.it. Some Donations.
ABOUTTwo Web apps that aim to increase access to public data about parliament activity.
Data is scraped from official sources, manually verified and then published in a mysql + apache + php + solr website.
HTTP://WWW.OPENPOLIS.ITgiovedì 18 novembre 2010
LICENSE"The use of the public ENS will be free of charge for a reasonable and fair use. Special needs (beyond fair use) will be regulated by SLAs between the Truestee
and third parties".
MONEYtotal cost of 7.4M eur (5,1M eur funded by the EU
Commission, FP7)
ABOUTOKKAM's "Entity Name System" aims to be the DNS of the semantic web: a service which can map many entity names (e.g. multiple linked data URIs for a single entity) into a single web name for fdata integration and mashup.
WHOService managed by the OKKAM Trust. Trustee is the Okkam S.r.l., a l imited l iabil ity company, incorporated under the Laws of Italy.
HTTP://WWW.OKKAM.ORG
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LICENSEOSI approved (most probably BSD-like)
MONEYapprox 1M eur (700k Eu Commission FP7, 300k
partner companies).
ABOUTSEMLIB aims at developing two OSS software components that can be easily integrated in digital r e p o s i t o r i e s : a S e m a n t i c Annotation system for linking web pages and multimedia objects with the LOD cloud and a Semant ic Recommender System based on LOD-enriched data-sources. Starts Jan 2011.
WHO4 compan i e s , 2 r e s e a r ch organizations. Italian par tners: Ne t 7 SRL ( coo rd i n a t o r ) , Liberologico SRL, Università Politecnica delle Marche
CONTACT: [email protected]
SEMLIBSEMANTIC WEB TOOLS FOR
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
R E S E A R C H : : T E C H - 2
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FEATURESbold positions about commercial re-use and
downstream restrictions;as thematic network, it's focused on sharing views,
building consensus and facilitating exchanges
MONEYapprox about 500.000 € (EU funding)
ABOUTLAPSI is a thematic network f u nded by t h e Eu ropean Commission. The project intends to become the main European point of reference for high-level policy discussions and strategic action on all legal issues related to the access and the re-use of Public Sector Information.
WHOCoordinated by the NEXA Center for Internet & Society (IT); 20 international partners: universities and research centers and other stakeholders: e.g. the S l o v e n i a n I n f o r m a t i o n Commissioner
HTTP://WWW.LAPSI-PROJECT.EU/
LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION
LAPSI
R E S E A R C H : : L E G A L - 3
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R E S E A R C H : : L E G A L - 4
FEATURESMain focus is on the production of research
(reviews, articles and papers)Working on an Open Data Manual targeting public administrations (in particular regional governments)
MONEYapprox 600.000 € (Piedmont Region funding)
ABOUTEVPSI is a multidisciplinar y research project studying public sector information in a regional perspective and from the point of view of legal, economic and technological analysis.
WHOUniversity of Turin, Politecnico di Torino, Fondazione Rosselli
HTTP://WWW.EVPSI.ORG/
EXTRACTING VALUE FROM PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND
REGIONAL POLICIES
EVPSI
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C O M M U N I T Y- 1
CKANITALIA
FEATURESPart of a larger international community.
79 datasets listed
PEOPLE AND MONEYboth volunteer and paid work, on OKF infrastructure
< 10 contributors
ABOUTCKAN Italia was started in June 2010 with a mass import of ~70 datasets of public interest, all available under restrictive license terms. The first aim is to have a clear picture of public data and act as a hub for all open data initiatives in Italy.
GOALbridging the Italian community and the international Open Data wo r l d ( l i k e he r e t oday ) , e n c o u r a g i n g a p p l i c a t i o n developers and citizens to claim for and reuse open data
HTTP://IT.CKAN.NETgiovedì 18 novembre 2010
C O M M U N I T Y- 2
DATAGOV.IT
FEATURESfinal version of the Open Government Manifesto to
be presented the 30th of November
PEOPLE AND MONEYparticipants are all volounteers, but many of them are
working as consultants for public bodies
ABOUTDataGov.it is a group of people involved in various ways in projects aiming at creating a more dynamic and innovative public administration
GOALThe first (and currently main) objective of this project is the p r o d u c t i o n o f a n O p e n Government Manifesto and the related activities, from consensus building to dissemination and awareness
HTTP://WWW.DATAGOV.ITgiovedì 18 novembre 2010
C O M M U N I T Y- 3
SPAGHETTI OPEN DATA
PEOPLE AND MONEYvolunteer work: citizens, civil servants, civic hackers,
data entrepreneurs66 members, 14 active contributors
ABOUTSpaghetti Open Data is a group of Italian citizens concerned with the release of public data in open format, for easy reuse and remix (open data).
GOALcreating a community around open data and software tools to explore them, raising awareness with public presentations and demos.(36 datasets l i s ted, par t ly imported to CKAN)
HTTP://WWW.SPAGHETTIOPENDATA.ORG/ giovedì 18 novembre 2010
S M E
DEPP.ITServices and Producs for analysis of Openpolis data. Mostly targeted to press agencies, companies and lobbysts.
NETSEVEN.ITResearch, consulting and OSS products for publishing, consuming and integrating Linked Open Data. Focus on Semantic Web technologies.
VISUP.ITData visualisation and Infographics. Focus on Open Data Visualisation.
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ODG IN ITALY IS STILL IN ITS INFANCY...
BUT IT WILL(HOPEFULLY)
GROW QUICKLY
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AUTHORSMichele Barbera, Lorenzo Benussi, Stefano Costa, Federico Morando
IMAGESFlickr, Tuscany dunes - Val D'Orcia, Carlo_itFlickr, Baby pose, mochida1970(Highly Honored Photographer)
THANK YOU
CREDITS
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