This document discusses issues related to open data policies and frameworks. It addresses challenges like ensuring open data is relevant and useful, managing data quality and privacy, and determining who pays for open data resources. Two examples are provided: open city data often lacks interoperability and has tensions between transparency and privacy; linked data projects have mostly technical benefits demonstrated rather than clear business impacts. Two EU projects are noted that aim to facilitate open data access across formats and provide practical tools for businesses to leverage linked open data.

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Framing the issue, looking ahead
Francesco Molinari
mail@francescomolinari.it
Alfamicro, Portugal

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What we are talking about

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Starting Point (1)
EPSI Platform

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Starting Point (2)
http://www.informationr.net/ir/10-3/paper228.html

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Our vision

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Issues to deal with…
• Open Data Policies: rationale, drivers, constraints…
• Ceremonial Vs. Relevant for transparency of government
and development of economy / progress of society
• Quality, Reliability, Terms of (Re)use of Data and
Information
• Security and Privacy, esp. in relation to global
communication infrastructures (e.g. Gmail, Twitter)
• The Big Data revolution: which impacts on the socio-
economic system?
• Proprietary Vs. Open Source concepts
• Who has to pay for what?

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Example1: City Open Data
• Great potential for increasing “smartness” – or livability and
residents’ well being – of a city in a variety of domains, from
mobility to energy, from public health to environment etc.
• Quite often released in a non-interoperable format, which is
difficult to access and use by the developer community, let
alone the average citizen
• With latent tensions between transparency and privacy,
accountability and the law of order
• A plethora of pretty similar applications are built on the top
of scanty and incomplete datasets, not enabling to reach
critical mass or business dimension (transferability)

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Example2: Linked Data projects
• Mostly promoted by technology enthusiasts (or deliberate
experimenters), have not, as yet, demonstrated impact on
business cases
• Their advantages are most often assumed or implied; little
measurement occurs and far more expressions of technical
benefit (for example, it is easier to work across systems)
than of business benefit (e.g., better service quality) exist,
although one might lead to the other
• There is a common need (also to the previous example) for
the creation of ad hoc open/linked datasets in response to
precisely identified socio-economic needs.

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Two EU funded projects
• An “Open Data
Commons” concept and
linked environment that
facilitates access to
data in different formats
by shared templates
and applications
www.citadelonthemove.eu
• A practical workbench
for newbies interested
in getting the most in
terms of business
value from state of the
art Linked Open Data
tools and resources
www.linda-project.eu

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Thank you for your attention
Francesco Molinari
mail@francescomolinari.it
Alfamicro, Portugal