This document discusses a project to aggregate and link financial statement data from 8,100 Italian municipalities over 10 years. The project aims to make municipal financial data more understandable, useful and accessible to citizens and administrators by extracting key information and linking it to other statistical, governance and geographic data sources. It notes that the project is still in an alpha prototype stage and invites feedback to help further develop essential features and future work.

1. Opening up and linking the accounts of 8100 italian
municipalities
Michele Barbera, <barbera@netseven.it>
TW: <@barbz79it><@lod_it>
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2. Flickr: markturner
In Italy there are 8096 municipalities
Inhabitants: Pedesina (34) < Rome (2,5 M)
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3. Municipal financial statements are crucial to:
- Understand how the city is administered
- Make administrators accountable
- Empower citizens
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4. Yet they are very difficult to read and understand
for citizens and (sometimes also) administrators
themselves
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6. Page 2 / 85 !!!
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7. Digitization didn’t make them easier to understand
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8. But it made them (sort of) machine readable
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9. So we scraped,
curated and linked
8100 municipalities *
10 years * ~15 pages
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10. To exctract useful information data needs to be
contextualized.
Linked with:
- Demographics and other statistical data (ISTAT)
- Data on local governors (OPENPOLIS)
- Geodata (OPENSTREETMAP)
Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/
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11. WARNING:
it’s still an alpha prototype,
we need your help!
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12. http://alpha.openbilanci.linkedopendata.it/invite.php
(or just click “cancel” on the auth form)
Request an invite,
leave your feedback!
NOTICE: several essential features (data dump, linked data output, APIs,
embeddable widgets, 2009-2010 data) are not yet available!
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13. Future Work
Lots of ideas, please talk to us (or leave a
message near the poster), we’ll be around.
Michele Barbera “@barbz79it”, “@lod_it”
Aline Pennisi
Thank you!
Slides available at http://slideshare.net/barbz79it
venerdì 21 ottobre 2011

14. Future Work
Lots of ideas, please talk to us (or leave a
message near the poster), we’ll be around.
Michele Barbera “@barbz79it”, “@lod_it”
Aline Pennisi
Thank you!
Slides available at http://slideshare.net/barbz79it
venerdì 21 ottobre 2011

15. @lod_it
www.openpolis.it
Michele Barbera:
info@openpolis.it
@lod_it
@lod_it
@lod_it barbera@netseven.it
Michele Barbera:
Michele Barbera:
info@linkedopendata.it
barbera@netseven.it
barbera@netseven.it Netseven, Pisa
Netseven, Pisa
Netseven, Pisa
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16. Credits
Photos
Flickr: Rome, markturner
Flickr: Hieroglyph 2, tore_urnes
Thanks to
Vittorio Alvino, Openpolis
Mirko Balducci, ISIA
Massimiliano Brocchini, Net7
Guglielmo Celata, Openpolis
Ettore Di Cesare, Openpolis
Enrico Giusti, Net7
Aline Pennisi, Openpolis
Alessio Piccioli, Net7
Alessandro Pironi, Hyperborea
Alberto Piu, Net7
Sauro Salvadori, Hyperborea
Slides available at http://slideshare.net/barbz79it
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