This document discusses open data and how it can be improved. It notes that each country and region has different open data available and different ways of representing data, making it difficult for applications to work across boundaries. It provides examples of current open data applications in Italy and suggests creating common open data structures and allowing cooperation between different data sets to provide more complete information to users.

1. Ing. Remo Pomposini - T-Connect s.r.l.
Rovereto – October 16, 2013

2. Open data – what is available
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Each country has its own data
to open
Even if set of data are the same
the way to represent them are
different region by region
No rules to correlate the data, it
produce two different level of
problems:
• The same application
cannot be used in different
municipality/Country/stat
e
• Correlation among data set
is difficult and has to be
customize by developers
and not by the final users

3. The data deluge

4. How open data are used today (1/4)
iLazio
iLazio discovering the cultural
assetts in the Region of Lazio

5. How open data are used today (2/4)
RomafliTaxi

6. How open data are used today (3/4)
FirenzeUP
Events in the city
of Florence

7. How open data are used today(4/4)
ScuolaMobile

8. How to improve them (1/3)
 Creating a common open data structure that identifies a
unique set of data
 Allowing cooperation among different data sets:
 Tourism
Monuments + hotels + restaurants – in order to allow the
creation of a proper and complete tour
 City life
 City + daily traffic + wheater – provide an overview of the
pollution level in a particular city
 Traffic level + accidents – can produce an evaluation parameter
able to estimate the urban liveable
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9. How to improve them (2/3)

10. How to improve them (3/3)