1. Applying Linked Open Data
to Public Procurement
Experiences from the LOD2 project
Jindřich Mynarz (@jindrichmynarz)
PSI Group meeting
January 24, 2013

2. LOD2 project
EU FP7 research project advancing linked
open data to the next level.
Duration: 09/2010 - 08/2014
Coordinator: AKSW,
University of Leipzig
http://lod2.eu/

3. http://lod2.eu/WikiArticle/Consortium.
html

4. LOD2 Stack:
Linux distribution for linked open data
http://stack.lod2.eu/

5. Government linked data cloud
http://lod-cloud.net

6. Our domain
17,3 %
of EU's GDP
http://bit.ly/lod2-wp9a

7. Our tasks
● Publishing
● Matchmaking
● Analytics
prolonging the life-cycle
of public procurement data

8. Vision:
Distributed marketplace for public contracts
● Defragmentation of
public procurement
data
● Enable supply to
meet demand in an
open, linked data
infrastructure
Shopping Cart designed by Eray Kula from The Noun Project

9. Public procurement LOD cloud
http://linked.opendata.cz

10. Tools developed
● Strigil
○ screen-scraping, data extraction
● ODCleanStore
○ cleaning and linking data
● Public contracts filing app (mockup)
○ publishing and matchmaking data

13. Public contracts filing application

14. Visualizations

15. Czech public procurement spending
as a heat map
http://teplotakolem.tk/

16. Top 50 spending flows in German
public procurement

17. http://payola.cz

18. http://payola.cz

19. Why does it matter?
● Transparency: contracting in public
● Openness leads to fair competition
● Efficient resource allocation: potential for
cost savings
● Better data better procurement

20. Challenges
● Unclear licensing: "© European Union"?
● Machine readability
● Entity reconciliation
● Cross-country procurement
● Long tail of public procurement

21. EU Digital Agenda Scoreboard

22. Next steps?
EC's Open Data Portal

23. Acknowledgement
Supported by EU ICT FP7 under No. 257943
(LOD2 project)