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Open Data: The Italian Landscape
1. 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
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2. THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE
•DATA P RO J E C T S
•R E S E A R C H P RO J E C T S
•C O M M U N I T I E S
•S M E
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3. DATA : : TO P - D OW N - 1
OPEN CAMERA
LICENSE
no license!
FEATURES
Part of a larger campaign of the Radical Party which
aims at creating a public register of public
representatives
PEOPLE AND MONEY
4 activists of the Radical Party
ABOUT
Data 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/TUTTE
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4. DATA : : TO P - D OW N - 2
DATI.PIEMONTE.IT
LICENSE
CC0, CC-BY for the Website
FEATURES
Explicit and detailed guidelines. First and only local PA
PEOPLE AND MONEY
Piedmontese Consortium for Informatic
Services,Top-IX public/private consortium and
the NEXA research Center for Internet &
Society
ABOUT
More 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 months
The project is led by the Regional
Government of Piedmont.
HTTP://DATI.PIEMONTE.IT
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5. DATA : : TO P - D OW N - 3
MIA PA
LICENSE
IODL
FEATURES
uses the recently drafted Italian Open Data License
(beta version)
PEOPLE AND MONEY
Ministry of Public Administration and
Innovation and private companies
ABOUT
It's a project to geo-localize
public ser vices 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
25 o
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6. DATA : : B OT TO M - U P - 1
OPEN STREET MAP
ITALY
LICENSE
open license, ODbL
FEATURES
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)
ABOUT
Creates and provides free
geographic data such as street
maps to anyone who wants
them. OSM in Italy was
kickstarted in late 2007 and is
o n e o f t h e m o s t a c t i ve
communities in Europe.
HTTP://WIKI.OSM.ORG
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7. DATA : : B OT TO M - U P - 2
LINKED OPEN
CAMERA
LICENSE
CC-BY-2.5-IT
FEATURES
Focused on Linked Open Data & Semantic Web.
Soon to be extended to other national & local
bottom-up gov Linked Open datasets
PEOPLE AND MONEY
3 active volounteers + resources and consultancy
donated by Net7 srl
ABOUT
Cleaned up, enriched, Linked and
RDFized data provided by Open
Camera.
Totally independent from
OpenCamera.
Offers acces to data via: RDF
dump, SPARQL endpoint and a
faceted browsing UI.
HTTP://WWW.LINKEDOPENCAMERA.IT
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8. DATA : : B OT TO M - U P - 3
OPENPOLIS -
OPENPARLAMENTO
LICENSE
CC-BY-3.0-Unported
FEATURES
Users 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 MONEY
6 person staff paid by Depp.it. Some Donations.
ABOUT
Two 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.IT
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9. 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 theTruestee
and third parties".
MONEY
total cost of 7.4M eur (5,1M eur funded by the EU
Commission, FP7)
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
single entity) into a single web
name for fdata integration and
mashup.
WHO
Service managed by the OKKAM
Trust. Trustee is the Okkam S.r.l.,
a limited liability company,
incorporated under the Laws of
Italy.
HTTP://WWW.OKKAM.ORG
R E S E A R C H : : T E C H - 1
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10. LICENSE
OSI approved (most probably BSD-like)
MONEY
approx 1M eur (700k Eu Commission FP7, 300k
partner companies).
ABOUT
SEMLIB aims at developing two
OSS software components that
can be easily integrated in digital
repositor ies: a Semantic
Annotation system for linking
web pages and multimedia
objects with the LOD cloud and
a Semantic Recommender
System based on LOD-enriched
data-sources. Starts Jan 2011.
WHO
4 companies, 2 research
organizations. Italian partners:
Net7 SRL (coordinator),
Liberologico SRL, Università
Politecnica delle Marche
CONTACT: BARBERA@NETSEVEN.IT
SEMLIB
SEMANTIC WEB TOOLS FOR
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
R E S E A R C H : : T E C H - 2
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11. FEATURES
bold positions about commercial re-use and
downstream restrictions;
as thematic network, it's focused on sharing views,
building consensus and facilitating exchanges
MONEY
approx about 500.000 € (EU funding)
ABOUT
LAPSI is a thematic network
funded by the European
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.
WHO
Coordinated 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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12. R E S E A R C H : : L E G A L - 4
FEATURES
Main focus is on the production of research
(reviews, articles and papers)
Working on an Open Data Manual targeting public
administrations (in particular regional governments)
MONEY
approx 600.000 € (Piedmont Region funding)
ABOUT
EVPSI is a multidisciplinary
research project studying public
sector information in a regional
perspective and from the point
of view of legal, economic and
technological analysis.
WHO
University 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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13. C O M M U N I T Y- 1
CKAN
ITALIA
FEATURES
Part of a larger international community.
79 datasets listed
PEOPLE AND MONEY
both volunteer and paid work, on OKF infrastructure
< 10 contributors
ABOUT
CKAN 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.
GOAL
bridging the Italian community
and the international Open Data
wor ld (like here today),
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.NET
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14. C O M M U N I T Y- 2
DATAGOV.IT
FEATURES
final version of the Open Government Manifesto to
be presented the 30th of November
PEOPLE AND MONEY
participants are all volounteers, but many of them are
working as consultants for public bodies
ABOUT
DataGov.it is a group of people
involved in various ways in
projects aiming at creating a
more dynamic and innovative
public administration
GOAL
The 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.IT
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15. C O M M U N I T Y- 3
SPAGHETTI
OPEN DATA
PEOPLE AND MONEY
volunteer work: citizens, civil servants, civic hackers,
data entrepreneurs
66 members, 14 active contributors
ABOUT
Spaghetti 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).
GOAL
creating a community around
open data and software tools to
explore them, raising awareness
with public presentations and
demos.
(36 datasets listed, par tly
imported to CKAN)
HTTP://WWW.SPAGHETTIOPENDATA.ORG/
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16. S M E
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
DataVisualisation.
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17. ODG IN ITALY IS
STILL IN ITS
INFANCY...
BUT IT WILL
(HOPEFULLY)
GROW QUICKLY
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18. AUTHORS
Michele Barbera, Lorenzo Benussi, Stefano Costa, Federico Morando
IMAGES
Flickr,Tuscany dunes -Val D'Orcia, Carlo_it
Flickr, Baby pose, mochida1970(Highly Honored Photographer)
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