1. A new key portal for Open Energy Data

2. reegle re-loaded
Considering fast development in the web world, reegle has recently undergone a
total make-over to establish itself at the forefront of energy and climate
information once again:
1. Reegle is publishing all its data in an open format for free re-use
2. Reegle is consuming Open Energy Data from the LOD cloud
3. Reegle is the first energy portal to enter the LOD cloud
4. Reegle constructs the most extensive thesaurus on RE and CCD
5. Reegle offers comprehensive country energy profiles by merging authoritative
data
6. Reegle has had a design make-over to reflect its top-of-the-league status
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3. Open Data?
WHO?
Governments and official
agencies have pledged to make
their data publicly available free
for 3rd party re-use. WHY?
• More transparency
• More efficient public service
• Better use and re-use of
information
• New combination of data
HOW?
creates more value
• As raw data
• Using W3C standards
• In open and standard formats
• Human AND machine read-able
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Reference-able URIs
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4. Linked Open Data!
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5. What benefits?
• Less replication (offering same datasets
in different places)
• Encouragement to re-use existing
datasets
• Clear which datasets are providing
similar / same information
• More innovation because datasets can
be put in a new context and lead to
interesting applications
• Put information in context and thereby
create knowledge
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6. reegle as LOD producer/consumer
• www.reegle.info – well established quality information gateway
• More than 220,000 users a month
• Intelligent clean energy search including over 3,000 sources
• New portal data.reegle.info launched in 2011
Now available for external free re-use in Linked Open
Standard W3C standard on data.reegle.info :
• over 1,700 clean energy stakeholders worldwide
• extensive glossary enriched with DBpedia linked
data definition (thesaurus)
• project outcome documents, country policy
reports and DBpedia country description
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7. 1. Clean Energy Search
reegle’s clean energy search is a unique tool to find high quality information on
clean energy related topics, searching over 3,000 authoritative sources.
Based on reegle’ s thesaurus:
• Refined search
• Related search
• Auto-complete
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8. 2. Country Energy Profiles
As a reegle mesh-up, the country energy profiles provide a comprehensive set of
energy-related information on over 200 countries including:
• Contact details of key stakeholders
• Overview on policy and regulations
• Links to project outcome documents
programmes and tools
• Statistical data visualised charts
• Maps of renewable energy sources
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9. 3. Catalogue of actors and stakeholders
reegle’s catalogue of actors and stakeholders ( ) contains information on and links
to over 1700 ministries, initiatives, partnerships and organizations involved in renewable
energy and energy efficiency.
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10. 4. Energy and Climate Change Glossary
reegle’s extensive glossary ( ) based on the thesaurus describes more than 1500 terms
on energy and climate compatible development and offers:
• Definition and synonyms for each term
• Links to related, broader and narrower terms
• Visual browser showing how a term is semantically connected -
symbolizing the scope of a concept or technology
• Information from other sources like Wikipedia
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11. Integrating reegle‘s data
data.reegle.info offers all free datas sets to be queried and used through the SPARQL
endpoint:
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12. data.reegle.info
This free of charge service includes:
• Datasets in RDF to guarantee machine readable formats
• Widgets and wordpress plugins for easy integration and many added benefits
such as automated tagging based on thesaurus
• Detailed instructions on developer’s portal
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13. Demos
You can access the following resources for demonstration
• reegle.info LOD based country profiles: http://www.reegle.info/countries
• reegle.info LOD based glossary: http://www.reegle.info/glossary
• reegle.info LOD based Actors Catalogue: http://www.reegle.info/actors
• reegle.info Clean Energy Search: http://www.reegle.info/clean-energy-search
• reegle.info data & developer platform: http://data.reegle.info
• PoolParty demozone for extraction: http://poolparty.punkt.at/demozone/reegle
• PoolParty Semantic Search demo: http://search.poolparty.punkt.at/alcedo/
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14. LOD cooperation example ...
Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak
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15. Information gateway for renewable
energy and energy efficiency
”Knowledge is of two kinds.
We know a subject ourselves or
we know where we can find information
upon it”.
Samuel Johnson 1775
Florian Bauer
Operations & IT Director, REEEP
Web http://www.reeep.org , http://www.reegle.info
Wagramerstrasse 5,
Blog http://blog.reegle.info
A-1400 Wien, Austria Twitter http://twitter.com/reegle
LinkedIN http://at.linkedin.com/in/florianbauer
Mail florian.bauer@reeep.org
Skype reeep_f.bauer
Phone +43-1-26026 3714