1. Linked Data: Ongoing Activities in the Netherlands Rinke Hoekstra

2. Overview http://www.slideshare.net/rinkehoekstra/ Quick overview Rinke Hoekstra (VUA/UvA) Linked Data usage in the Dutch government OWMS Hans Overbeek (ICTU) Access to Political Data Mark van Assem (VUA/Geencommentaar) Augmented Reality Dan Brickley (VUA)

3. Community Dutch Semantic Web Meetups Informal meetings Broad community http://esw.w3.org/DutchSemanticWebMeetups/ Meetups 12th February 2010 Linking Open Dutch Data ~100 participants 3rd June 2010 Usage of Semantics (JansAasman, Franz Inc.) 29th June Belgian “Semantic Meetup” in Amsterdam

4. Current State Linked Data vs. Linked Open Data Academic community Linked data as a technology (Semantic Web) Applied to a domain Cultural heritage Health Care & Life sciences Law Community outside academia Grassroots Closely tied with open data initiatives, e.g. Hack de Overheid (hack the government) Institutions Cultural heritage, some eager government bodies

5. ... and government policy? NL gov. has not quite seen the light yet Government structure does not help Open data still scares people ... afraid of having to open up more data Standards usage Hesitant move to “open” (read: non gov) standards G2G, B2G, G2B increasingly standardised C2G somewhat standardised Filing taxes, online forms etc. G2C increasingly standardised Accessibility guidelines (for the visually impaired) OWMS, standaarden.overheid.nl

6. Open Data in NL (1) Lots of municipalities Delft, Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam ... Mostly statistical “data” (buurtmonitor) National government Schools, school performance (OCW) Police and Crime Health and Environment Traffic Data Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Government owned buildings Political debates (Parlando/Parlis) Laws, judgements (deep links) Spatial plans (has a WFS service) Often no URIs, no REST APIs

7. Open Data in NL (2) Small scale subsidies, grassroots initiatives www.hackdeoverheid.nl www.vrijedata.nl www.schoolvinder.nl www.vervuilingsalarm.nl www.datzouhandigzijn.nl www.openkvk.nl www.politwoops.nl www.ikregeer.nl www.parlis.nl www.geencommentaar.nl/parlando/ www.politix.nl qkoorts.openstreetmap.nl cc.geencommentaar.nl... ask Mark van Assem http://nl.ckan.net ... being translated to Dutch ... some data from the municipality of Delft

8. Linked Data in NL (1) National Government Overheid.nl Web Metadata Standaard (OWMS) ICTU, Ministry of the Interior http://standaarden.overheid.nl/owms step towards http://data.overheid.nl ... talk to Hans Overbeek Metadata Workbench JustitiëleInformatiedienst (JID), Ministry of Justice Conceptual model in OWL XML Schemas, and XML messages refer back to these categories

9. Linked Data in NL (2) National Government/Law Rechtspraak.nl (Judgments) Council of the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice Step-by-step migration to Linked Data, now still XML http://www.rechtspraak.nl Shameless self-ad: http://www.best-project.nl Legal advice database (internal) Council of State (Raad van State) Pilot project ESCAPE University of Groningen/University of Twente Notes on new judgments written by legal professionals http://escape.utwente.nl/show/80

10. Linked Data in NL (3) Law/Legislation MetaLex/FastLex and AkomaNtoso Family of XML languages for expressing legal sources Use of RDFa attributes to encode metadata Adoption by European Parliament is foreseen http://www.metalex.eu Cultural Heritage Europeana Connect all European libraries Thought Lab Louvre, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands Institute for Art History http://www.europeana.eu/portal/thought-lab.html Standard vocabularies in SKOS KoninklijkeBibliotheek (KB), VU University Amsterdam National History Museum

11. Linked Data in NL (4) Government Statistics Onderzoek en Statistiek Amsterdam Pilot study Adopting SKOS, SCOVO, SDMX-RDF Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) ... must be doing something, since they’re here.

12. Linked Data in NL (5) Technology and Research Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC) Large scale reasoning and analysis Pluginarchitecture Efficiency improvements Storage, querying, reasoning (WebPIE) Linked Data and Augmented Reality ... ask Dan Brickley

13. Linked Data in NL (6) Technology and Research Vocabulary development Vocabulary merging and alignment Automatic annotation, entity extraction Domain dependent applications Language development (e.g. via W3C) Friend of a Friend (FOAF) Vocabulary specification (SKOS) Ontology specification (OWL, OWL 2) Linked data specification (RDF, RDFa) SDMX-RDF... who knows?

14. On Elephants and Rooms community mass conversion linked data != open data scalable tools

15. Thanks Dan, Mark, Christophe, Hans

18. http://parlando.sdu.nl/

19. Site is badly designed

20. Does not provide stable URLs

21. promised solution in 2006

22. nothing happened

24. Stable URLs based on document number

26. only votes of whole party are published

28. http://parlando.sdu.nl/

29. Not very user-friendly

30. Does not provide stable URLs (no way to “save” your search result

31. promised solution in 2006

32. nothing happened

34. Stable URLs based on document number

36. OK interface

37. Dossiers

38. Linking of questions to answers

39. email alert for answers

40. Twitter feed

42. Amendementen

43. Voting of parties

45. Above X seats?

46. In/excluding these parties?

47. How many seats does my preferred coalition have?

48. Ranking of coalitions based on seats

49. Based on poll data

51. AR Themes Open geo data Social Web Privacy OAuth APIs newbreeders.com layar.com Cultural Heritage Startups... wikitude.org Govt data Facebook’s Open Graph newbreeders.com newbreeders.com

52. AR as iceberg...? From the bits we can see (3D, mobile, ...) ...to the things that need to happen to get the right info where and when you need it. (open data, common formats, shared APIs,...)