Talk about: Support services for the PSI and Open Data policy - held on 24.3.2013 at The Waag, Amsterdam at the (Linked) Open Data MeetUp Amsterdam co-organised by LOD2.

1. www.pwc.com
Support services for the
PSI and Open Data
policy
Open Data Support
LOD2 Meetup, Amsterdam – March 24th, 2013
Bastiaan Deblieck, TenForce
All credits for the presentation to Nikolaos Loutas, PwC
Makx
Dekkers

2. Project overview
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3. Project Factsheet
• Short name: Open Data Support
• Start date: 1 Jan 2013 | End date: 31 Dec 2015
• Contractor: PwC EU Services
• Our team
Makx
Dekkers
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4. Project Objectives
To improve the visibility and facilitate the access to
datasets published on local and national Open Data
portals in order to increase their re-use within and across
borders
By providing...
• Data preparation, transformation and publication services;
• Training services in the area of Open Data, in particular to favour the
uptake of Linked Open Data technologies by public bodies within the
European Union;
• An IT advisory and consultancy service in the area of Open Data, and
in particular on Linked Open Data technologies.
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5. The problem: Scattered datasets represented using different
metadata vocabularies – hard to find and reuse
Hard to find
≠
Fragmented
Time-consuming
Different
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6. How are we going to help...
We will provide homogenised access
to metadata descriptions of open
datasets via a single point of access.
• Accessible via the pan-European Data
portal or national/regional Open Data
portals and catalogs.
Existing Open
Data Portal
Pan-European
Data Portal ODIPP
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7. Overview of the services
Perform metadata,
Request of the
Establish contact and transformation, Publish Metadata as
Commission to contact a Collect metadata
provide training homogenisation, Linked Open Data
specific stakeholder
validation and cleansing
WP1: Data preparation, transformation & publication services
Publishing
Harvesting Provenance Transformation Validation Harmonization
Linked Open
rules rules rules rules rules
Metadata
Metadata
Application Open Harvesting Provenance
Transformation Validation Harmonization RDF
Profile Data Service Service
Service Service Service Repository
Portal
Metadata
Harvester workflow, Scheduler & Monitor
Open Data Portals WP2 - Training Services
WP3 - Consulting services
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8. External communication
URL: www.opendatasupport.eu
Community on Joinup:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/ods/description
Social Media
• Linkedin group
• Twitter account
(@OpenDataSupport)
Brochure (tbd)
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9. WP1 – Data
preparation, transfor
mation and
publication services
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10. ODIPP – Data Harvesting and Publication process
Publishing
Harvesting Provenance Transformation Validation Harmonization
Linked Open
rules rules rules rules rules
Metadata
SILK
Open Harvesting Provenance
Transformation Validation Harmonization RDF
Service Service
Data Service Service Service Repository
Portal
Harvester workflow, Scheduler & Monitor
LOD manager
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11. How an Open Data portal connects to ODIPP
1. Source portal provides
• HTTP access
◦ Ranging from REST access (cfr CKAN) to a single URL with a dump of
the dataset in an open-format (e.g. csv)
• Documentation of the metadata.
2. ODIPP provides harvesting and publication framework
3. Source portal & ODS instantiate harvesting and
publication framework
• Requires testing and validation effort from source portal
• Requires technical support from ODS
• Requires maintenance of the harvesting and publication framework.
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12. Re-using rather than re-inventing
Delivering MAPM as a DCAT Application Profile
Why DCAT? • The Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT) is an
Editor’s draft produced by W3C GLD WG.
• Initially developed by DERI, DCAT is evolving
5 Open Data into a shared standard, gaining status both in
Portals Europe and the U.S.
(including • Data.gov.uk, publicdata.eu and the Open Data
portals of Barcelona, Zaragoza and Catalonia are
publicdata.eu) already using DCAT.
are already • MAPM will be an application profile of DCAT.
using DCAT. • An RDF vocabulary will be developed.
• DCAT application profile WG on Joinup
(http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/description).
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13. WP2 – Training
services
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14. Contractual Obligations
• A multilingual (3 official EU languages) Web-based online training
tool providing a tutorial about the principles and practices of Open
Data, and explaining how to publish public data as Linked Data.
• 12 onsite training sessions per year (36 over the period of 36
months), achieving a complete geographical coverage in terms of EU
Member States. The contractor must be able to offer onsite training
sessions in 3 official EU languages.
• By the end of the contract, 500 staff from public bodies within the
European Union must have followed onsite training services.
• Training material will be available in English, French and German
and will be accessible on Joinup via www.opendatasupport.eu
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15. WP3 – IT
advisory &
consultancy
services
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16. Contractual Obligations
• 6 advisory reports/consultancy tasks per year (18 over the period of
36 months) to be provided in at least 3 EU official languages.
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17. Advisory & consultancy services
IT
Awareness &
external Business
communication
Services
Legal Translation
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