Open Data: The Italian Landscape

OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE ODG Camp 2010, 18-19 Nov, London Michele Barbera, Lorenzo Benussi, Stefano Costa, Federico Morando <barbera@netseven.it>, <lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org>, <stefano.costa@okfn.org>, <federico.morando@polito.it> This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Italy License giovedì 18 novembre 2010

THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE •D ATA 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 •S M E giovedì 18 novembre 2010

D ATA : : TO P - D O W N - 1 ABOUT OPEN CAMERA Data about the expenses of the Chamber of Deputies. LICENSE The Radical Party obtained data no license! from the Chamber of Deputies as par t of its electoral FEATURES programme, transformed it into Part of a larger campaign of the Radical Party which aims at creating a public register of public open formats and published it on representatives the Web. PEOPLE AND MONEY 4 activists of the Radical Party HTTP://SERVIZI.RADICALPARTY.ORG/FRESHINSTALL/CAMERASPESE/TUTTE giovedì 18 novembre 2010

D ATA : : TO P - D O W N - 2 ABOUT DATI.PIEMONTE.IT More than 45 datasets (CSV format). From data about students and schools to data about shops and LICENSE commerce, going through turistic CC0, CC-BY for the Website ﬂows and related facilities; FEATURES 2300 downloads, 13.500 unique Explicit and detailed guidelines. First and only local PA visitors in the ﬁrst 6 months The project is led by the Regional PEOPLE AND MONEY Government of Piedmont. Piedmontese Consortium for Informatic Services,Top-IX public/private consortium and the NEXA research Center for Internet & Society HTTP://DATI.PIEMONTE.IT giovedì 18 novembre 2010

D ATA : : TO P - D O W N - 3 o 25 MIA PA ABOUT It's a project to geo-localize p u bl i c s e r v i c e s a n d s h a r e information and evaluations LICENSE IODL about them. Available data: data about public FEATURES uses the recently drafted Italian Open Data License services (especially front desks): (beta version) location, opening hours, etc. PEOPLE AND MONEY Ministry of Public Administration and Innovation and private companies HTTP://SAPERI.FORUMPA.IT/STORY/50925/E-NATA-MIAPA-IL-MINISTRO-BRUNETTA-PRESENTA-LA-PA-SU-MOBNOTES giovedì 18 novembre 2010

D ATA : : B OT TO M - U P - 1 ABOUT OPEN STREET MAP Creates and provides free ITALY geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants LICENSE them. OSM in Italy was open license, ODbL kickstarted in late 2007 and is one of the most active FEATURES communities in Europe. more than 200 active contributors (400 km mapped each day on average), active since 2007 PEOPLE AND MONEY volunteer work, based on the OSM Foundation infrastructure (developers, sysadmin) HTTP://WIKI.OSM.ORG giovedì 18 novembre 2010

D ATA : : B OT TO M - U P - 2 LINKED OPEN ABOUT CAMERA Cleaned up, enriched, Linked and RDFized data provided by Open Camera. LICENSE To t a l l y i n d e p e n d e n t f r o m CC-BY-2.5-IT OpenCamera. FEATURES Offers acces to data via: RDF Focused on Linked Open Data & Semantic Web. Soon to be extended to other national & local dump, SPARQL endpoint and a bottom-up gov Linked Open datasets faceted browsing UI. PEOPLE AND MONEY 3 active volounteers + resources and consultancy donated by Net7 srl HTTP://WWW.LINKEDOPENCAMERA.IT giovedì 18 novembre 2010

D ATA : : B OT TO M - U P - 3 ABOUT OPENPOLIS - Two Web apps that aim to OPENPARLAMENTO increase access to public data about parliament activity. LICENSE CC-BY-3.0-Unported Data is scraped from ofﬁcial sources, manually veriﬁed and FEATURES Users can and are encouraged to contribute data. then published in a mysql + There is no API. Currently experimenting with Linked apache + php + solr website. Data, which will be released with a non-commercial license. PEOPLE AND MONEY 6 person staff paid by Depp.it. Some Donations. HTTP://WWW.OPENPOLIS.IT giovedì 18 novembre 2010

RESEARCH::TECH-1 ABOUT OKKAM'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 LICENSE single entity) into a single web "The use of the public ENS will be free of charge for a reasonable and fair use. Special needs (beyond fair name for fdata integration and use) will be regulated by SLAs between the Truestee mashup. and third parties". WHO MONEY total cost of 7.4M eur (5,1M eur funded by the EU Service managed by the OKKAM Commission, FP7) Trust. Trustee is the Okkam S.r.l., a limited liability company, incorporated under the Laws of Italy. HTTP://WWW.OKKAM.ORG giovedì 18 novembre 2010

RESEARCH::TECH-2 ABOUT SEMLIB aims at developing two SEMLIB OSS software components that SEMANTIC WEB TOOLS FOR can be easily integrated in digital DIGITAL LIBRARIES repositories: a Semantic Annotation system for linking web pages and multimedia objects with the LOD cloud and LICENSE a Semantic Recommender OSI approved (most probably BSD-like) System based on LOD-enriched data-sources. Starts Jan 2011. MONEY WHO approx 1M eur (700k Eu Commission FP7, 300k partner companies). 4 companies, 2 research organizations. Italian par tners: Net7 SRL (coordinator), Liberologico SRL, Università Politecnica delle Marche CONTACT: BARBERA@NETSEVEN.IT giovedì 18 novembre 2010

RESEARCH::LEGAL-3 ABOUT LAPSI is a thematic network funded by the European LAPSI LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR Commission. The project intends INFORMATION to become the main European point of reference for high-level policy discussions and strategic FEATURES action on all legal issues related bold positions about commercial re-use and to the access and the re-use of downstream restrictions; Public Sector Information. as thematic network, it's focused on sharing views, building consensus and facilitating exchanges WHO MONEY Coordinated by the NEXA approx about 500.000 € (EU funding) Center for Internet & Society (IT); 20 international partners: universities and research centers and other stakeholders: e.g. the Slovenian Information Commissioner HTTP://WWW.LAPSI-PROJECT.EU/ giovedì 18 novembre 2010

RESEARCH::LEGAL-4 EVPSI ABOUT EXTRACTING VALUE FROM PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND REGIONAL POLICIES EVPSI is a multidisciplinar y research project studying public FEATURES sector information in a regional Main focus is on the production of research perspective and from the point (reviews, articles and papers) of view of legal, economic and Working on an Open Data Manual targeting public technological analysis. administrations (in particular regional governments) WHO MONEY approx 600.000 € (Piedmont Region funding) University of Turin, Politecnico di Torino, Fondazione Rosselli HTTP://WWW.EVPSI.ORG/ giovedì 18 novembre 2010

C O M M U N I T Y- 1 ABOUT CKAN CKAN Italia was started in June 2010 with a mass import of ~70 ITALIA datasets of public interest, all available under restrictive license terms. The ﬁrst aim is to have a clear picture of public data and FEATURES act as a hub for all open data Part of a larger international community. initiatives in Italy. 79 datasets listed GOAL PEOPLE AND MONEY bridging the Italian community both volunteer and paid work, on OKF infrastructure and the international Open Data < 10 contributors wor ld (like here today), encouraging application developers and citizens to claim for and reuse open data HTTP://IT.CKAN.NET giovedì 18 novembre 2010

C O M M U N I T Y- 2 ABOUT DataGov.it is a group of people DATAGOV.IT involved in various ways in projects aiming at creating a more dynamic and innovative public administration FEATURES GOAL ﬁnal version of the Open Government Manifesto to be presented the 30th of November The ﬁrst (and currently main) objective of this project is the PEOPLE AND MONEY production of an Open participants are all volounteers, but many of them are Government Manifesto and the working as consultants for public bodies related activities, from consensus building to dissemination and awareness HTTP://WWW.DATAGOV.IT giovedì 18 novembre 2010

C O M M U N I T Y- 3 ABOUT SPAGHETTI Spaghetti Open Data is a group OPEN DATA of Italian citizens concerned with the release of public data in open format, for easy reuse and remix (open data). GOAL creating a community around open data and software tools to PEOPLE AND MONEY explore them, raising awareness volunteer work: citizens, civil servants, civic hackers, with public presentations and data entrepreneurs demos. 66 members, 14 active contributors (36 datasets listed, par tly imported to CKAN) HTTP://WWW.SPAGHETTIOPENDATA.ORG/ giovedì 18 novembre 2010

SME DEPP.IT Services and Producs for analysis of Openpolis data. Mostly targeted to press agencies, companies and lobbysts. NETSEVEN.IT Research, consulting and OSS products for publishing, consuming and integrating Linked Open Data. Focus on Semantic Web technologies. VISUP.IT Data visualisation and Infographics. Focus on Open Data Visualisation. giovedì 18 novembre 2010

ODG IN ITALY IS STILL IN ITS INFANCY... BUT IT WILL (HOPEFULLY) GROW QUICKLY giovedì 18 novembre 2010

THANK YOU AUTHORS Michele Barbera, Lorenzo Benussi, Stefano Costa, Federico Morando CR E D IMAGES IT Flickr, Tuscany dunes - Val D'Orcia, Carlo_it Flickr, Baby pose, mochida1970(Highly Honored Photographer) S giovedì 18 novembre 2010

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