The document discusses open government data initiatives in Austria. It provides an overview of the Danube University Krems, which conducts research on e-governance and IT usage in government. It then discusses Austria's open data efforts, including the establishment of a cooperation group and data portal. It notes that Austria's metadata standards are aligned with international guidelines and that open data has enabled several civic applications. The document advocates expanding open data access across levels of government and countries to maximize its potential benefits.

1. Danube University Krems.
The University for Continuing Education.
Smart
+ Smart REGIONS!

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Who we are
• Center for E-Governance, Danube University Krems
• Advanced training towards MSc & MBA in Management & IT
• Research on the Intersection of
– IT-Usage
– Government Processes and Procedures
– Citizens

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Our Projects
• Austrian Chancellery
– Project Group eDemocracy and workplace of the future
– Round table Public Sector Register Architecture
– Open Data Applications for Austria
– Development of Open Government Data Standards
• Ministry of Finance
– Re-occuring jour fixe with IT-department
• City of Vienna
– Study on the implementation of the Open Government strategy
– Support on Open Data projects

4. 1. FACTS

5. Cities
give home to +50% of
Mankind

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FACTS
• As of ~ 2009, more than 50% of
world’s population is living in cities
• Until 2050, this will rise to 75%
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/economic_studies/global_cities_of_the_future_an_interactive_map

7. Cities
are a melting-pot of
Growth & Innovation

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FACTS
• In 2020, 600 cities will account for
65% of BNP
• 80% of national BNP is generated
in cities (in developed countries)
• “Compactness” allows higher
efficiency
http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-politics/cities-of-the-future-2484
http://www.unhabitat.org/cdrom/docs/wuf1.pdf

9. Cities
require us to redefine
Imagination & Reality

10. Babylon

11. Atlantis

12. Metropolis

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• Still of the night?
• Green fields?
•  Redefine “Reality”

14. 2. Claims

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CLAIMS
Urban areas contribute disproportionally to national
productivity. However, the structural productivity of
cities will at least in part rest upon an efficient supply of
serviced land and reliable infrastructure, including
transport, power, water and sanitation as well as
information & communication technologies.
“
UN Habitat Report State of the World's Cities 2012/2013, p. xiv
http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3387

16. In other words ….
There is no Smart City without a Smart Region ecosystem
Vienna
Ljubljana
Budapest
Bucuresti
Danube eRegion
• Energy
• Workforce
• Food
Resources

17. “Data is the Oil of the 21st Century”
Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda
(without pollution side effects)

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CLAIMS
1. Smart Cities and Regions are characterized by informed
decisions based on facts by government representatives and
private parties (Citizens, Economy, NGOs)
2. Traditional understanding of city-planning will have to evolve to
meet the challenges of an interconnected world
3. Information Technology enabling the free-flow of Data &
Information will contribute to the smartness of a City
4. Cities are not yet network organized enough to fundamentally
rise decision quality through efficient corporation
5. Cities will have to open significant amounts of data to enable
government with the public to co-create public services of the
21st century.
6. Data and Information has to be interoperable in order to
leverage network effects

19. Wait – Plan – Build – Hope
The traditional approach

20. The new approach
Consulate – Integrate – Co-create – Innovate
Imagecourtesyhttp://lifeinperpetualbeta.melissapierce.com/life-in-perpetual-beta.jpg

21. The quadruple Helix
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/quadruple-helix-dna_n_2527882.html

22. http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/about-open-innovation

23. … with ubiqituous data all around

24. 3. Open
Government
Data

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OGD in Austria - Evolution
1. Public urge
– Started 2009 by Citizen Democracy Interest groups
– Approaching administration through City of Vienna public funded
research project opendata.at
– Bottom-up initiatives by scraping existing
publicly available data sets
2. Administrative response
– Public discussion started spring 2011 by City of Linz
– Inception of Cooperation OGD Austria summer 2011
– Fall 2011: City of Vienna pioneers first government-driven OGD
portal
– Spring 2012: data.gv.at
– Today: 898 datasets by 20 organisations of every federal level

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OGD in Austria - Principles
1. Legal
– Provision: A dataset is an OGD dataset if it released on an official data portal
using CC-BY-license and described by a defined meta data description
– Ongoing: Liability concerns
2. Organisational
– Cooperation OGD Austria steering committee, organized in working groups
with focus-topics (meta data, business needs, content federation)
– No regulatory power, though directly advising public administration
3. Technical
– CKAN repository (minimal adaptions to be released as OS)
– 3-stars according to TBL-taxonomy
– Meta data description heavily influenced by international standards and good
practice
– Linked data: ongoing topic

27. Austrian Federal Law as Open Government Data
http://data.gv.at/datensatz/?id=31430a9f-c8ba-4654-ab68-c9c3dff0361b

28. 7
Applications
making use of it
• Citizen
empowerment
• “Unpaid work”

29. Real-time public transport Linz
http://data.linz.gv.at/daten/LinzAGLinien/index.html?ckan_name=elektronische-fahrplanauskunft-der-linz-ag-linien--echtzeit&ckan_id=pkg-9faa1734-607f-4bfd-b8c9-c5692bf37d55

30. 3Applications

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Added Value?
1. Would the City have commissioned concurring services?
NO
2. Do the applications create value?
Probably
3. What was the city effort?
Hard to measure (City also received value)
4. Who profits most?
Most likely SMEs (as localized data is just to cumbersome for the big players)
5. Will it pay back?
YES (By stimulating entrepreneurship and local business)

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OGD in Austria – Reusable patterns
• Metadata description
– Influenced by DCAT & INSPIRE, fully compatible to DCAT-AP
– Version 2.1 stable since spring 2012
– Coordinated with OGD Germany and Switzerland
• Steering committee Cooperation OGD Austria
– Ad-hoc and informal collaboration of public administration entities
– Sub-working groups including public (academia, business, NGOs);
“Collaboration of the eager and aware”
– ~ 4 meetings a year to approve work by – or assign tasks to – sub
working groups

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Combining OGD endeavours: DCAT-AP (Intermission)
• DCAT-AP IS
– A specification, which relies on DCAT
• DCAT-AP CAN
– Describe Metadata fields and supporting infrastructure
(eg. a data portal)
• DCAT-AP will become
– The meta data format of the European Open Data portal

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Combining OGD endeavours: Mapping DCAT-AP
Austrian meta data recommendation maps lossless to DCAT-AP
Name [DE] ID CKAN-ID Cardinality Controled Vocabulary Required / Optional Property Cardinality Occurrence
Catalog:dataset N M
Catalog:description N M
Catalog:license 1 M
Catalog:publisher 1 M
Catalog:title N M
Eindeutiger Identifikator metadata_identifier extras:metadata_identifier 1 dcterms:identifier R Dataset:identifier N O
Datum des Metadatensatzes metadata_modified extras:metadata_modified 1 dcterms:issued R CatalogRecord:update/modification date 1 M
Titel des Metadatensatzes title title 1 dcterms:title (mit language tag "de") R Dataset:title N M
Beschreibung description notes 1 dcterms:abstract R Dataset:description N M
Kategorie categorization extras:categorization[“…“,“…“] N dcat:theme R Dataset:theme/category; Maybe Category:preferred label N R
Schlagworte keywords tags N dcat:keyword R Dataset:keyword/tag N R
Datensatz oder Dienst Link resource_url resources:url N dcat:accessURL R Distribution:download URL N O
Datensatz oder Dienst Format resource_format resources:format N dcterms:format R Distribution:format, Distribution:media type 1 O
Datenverantwortliche Stelle maintainer maintainer 1 dcelements:creator R Agent:name N M
Lizenz license license 1 dcterms:license (sollte URI des Lizenzdokuments sein) R Distribution:license; Maybe License Document:license type 1 M
Zeitliche Ausdehnung (Anfang) begin_datetime extras:begin_datetime 1 dcterms:temporal R ~ Dataset:temporal coverage N O
Datensatz oder Dienst Bezeichner resource_name resources:name N rdfs:literal O Distribution:title N O
Bezeichnung der Metadatenstruktur schema_name extras:schema_name 1 dcterms:alternative O Implicitly by vocabulary URI
Sprache des Metadatensatzes schema_language extras:schema_language 1 dcterms:language O There is no equivalent in DCAT-AP, however it can be implicitly modelled using RDF
Character Set Code des Metadatensatzes schema_characterset extras:schema_characterset 1 cnt:characterEncoding O
Weiterführende Metadaten metadata_linkage extras:metadata_linkage N dcat:dataDictionary O Distribution:access URL N M
Attributbeschreibung attribute_description extras:attribute_description 1 dcterms:description O
Kontaktseite der datenverantwortlichen Stelle maintainer_link extras:maintainer_link 1 dcterms:creator O Dataset:contact point N R
Datensatz oder Dienst Veröffentlichungsdatum resource_created resources:created 1 dcterms:issued O Dataset:release date 1 O
Datensatz oder Dienst Änderungsdatum resource_lastmodified resources:last_modified 1 dcterms:modified O Dataset:update/modification date 1 O
Veröffentlichende Stelle publisher extras:publisher 1 dcelements:publisher O Dataset:publisher 1 M
Geographische Abdeckung/Lage geographic_toponym extras:geographic_toponym 1 dcterms:description O Dataset:geographical coverage N O
Geographische Ausdehnung geographic_bbox extras:geographic_bbox 1 dcterms:spatial O Dataset:geographical coverage N O
Zeitliche Ausdehnung (Ende) end_datetime extras:end_datetime 1 dcterms:temporal O ~ Dataset:temporal coverage N O
Aktualisierungszyklus update_frequency extras:update_frequency 1 dcterms:accrualPeriodicity O Dataset:frequency 1 O
Datenqualität/Herkunft lineage_quality extras:lineage_quality 1 dcat:dataQuality O
Titel und Beschreibung Englisch en_title_and_desc extras:en_title_and_desc 1 dcterms:abstract (mit language tag "en") O Dataset:title, Dataset:description using RDF literal language annotation “EN”
Größe des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_size resources:size 1 dcat:bytes O Distribution:byteSize 1 O
Lizenz Zitat license_citation extras:license_citation 1 cc:attributionName O
Sprache des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_language resources:language 1 dcterms:language O Dataset:language N O
Character Set Code des Datensatzes oder Dienstes resource_encoding resources:characterset 1 cnt:characterEncoding O
Cooperation OGD Österreich Metadata Description DCAT-AP V0.0.6

35. data.eu
Cities Federal States Ministries
Further
Potential
Companies
Society &
Individuals
data.gv.at
Interoperability here
(where the magic happens)

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How to realise this?
1. Homegenous access
2. by provision of data
described by metadata
3. through a single point of
access

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More Information
• https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/description
• https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/ods/description
• http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=2617
• http://slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/

38. Deadline for the submission of papers,
workshop proposals, reflections:
6. December 2013
Notification of acceptance
7. February 2014
Camera-ready paper submission
28 February 2014
Conference
21. - 23. May 2014
• Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation
• E-Democracy and E-Participation
• E-Voting
• Bottom-Up Movements
• Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration
• Open Collaborative Government
• Democracy, Globalization and Migration
• Connected Smart City
• Technology and Architecture
• Self-governance in Complex Networks
• Rethinking Information Visualization for the
• People
• Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies
• Design and Co-creation for E-democracy
• PhD Colloquium
Important Deadlines

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