Presentation of data.gov.be at the EU Regions Week

1. BOSA.be
The Belgian
Open Data Portal
2018-10-09
Bart Hanssens
FPS BOSA DG Digital Transformation
DATA.GOV.BE

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DATA.GOV.BE : BELGIAN OPEN DATA PORTAL

3.  Links to white papers
 Free promotion of your app
 “No Wrong Door”
MORE THAN JUST DATA
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4.  Belgium… it’s complicated ;-)
 Federal, regional, local government
 We contact our contacts
NO WRONG DOOR
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5. YOU MAKE IT, WE HARVEST IT
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6. Collecting metadata and links from
 Federal
 Regional
 Local
websites and portals
WE WANT IT ALL
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7. HARVESTING FROM CKAN TO XLS
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8.  SPARQL (tweaking)
 SKOS (mapping)
 DCAT-AP (exchange)
USING OPEN STANDARDS …
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9.  Java
 Apache POI
 JSoup
 Eclipse RDF4J
 XMLBeam
… AND OPEN SOURCE
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10. Tool chain on github
 Source code
 Full metadata export
PUBLISHING OUR TOOLS
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11. DON’T BE SHY, CONTACT US !
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12. GO TO DATA.GOV.BE OR MAIL US
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opendata
@
belgium.be