Survey and monitoring digital heritage in Flanders | Bart De NilFARO
The Cijferboek cultureel erfgoed (literal translation: book of numbers cultural heritage) is an initiative of the Agency for Arts and Heritage of the Flemish government and FARO. Flemish interface for cultural heritage.
It collects biannual figures on the operation of the authorized (with accreditation) museums, archives and heritage libraries, and the subsidized nationwide heritage organizations and heritage bodies.
It includes among other data about the management form, staff, volunteers, financial resources, infrastructure (depot), collection size and management, activities, access conditions, visitor numbers and services.
With this tool we want to monitor the evolution of the cultural heritage sector with accurate statistics. Thus, we underpin the (policy)support for cultural heritage.
Cijferboek Cultureel Erfgoed: Arolygu a Monitro Treftadaeth Ddigidol yn Fflan...RCAHMW
Cynllun o eiddo Asiantaeth Celfyddydau a Threftadaeth Llywodraeth Fflandrys a FARO: Y Rhyngwyneb Ffleminaidd ar gyfer Treftadaeth Ddiwylliannol yw Cijferboek cultureel erfgoed (cyfieithiad llythrennol: llyfr ffigurau treftadaeth ddiwylliannol). Mae’n casglu ffigurau ddwywaith y flwyddyn am weithrediad amgueddfeydd, archifdai a llyfrgelloedd treftadaeth awdurdodedig (y rhai sydd â label ardystio). Mae’n cynnwys data am y drefn reoli, staff, gwirfoddolwyr, adnoddau ariannol, isadeiledd, maint y casgliad a’r dull o’i reoli, gweithgareddau, amodau mynediad, nifer yr ymwelwyr a gwasanaethau.
Bydd Bert de Nil yn trafod sut mae’r data hwn yn ei gwneud hi’n bosibl i’r sector treftadaeth ddiwylliannol gael ei monitro gyda chymorth ystadegau manwl gywir a sut y gall fod yn sail i bolisi a chynnal treftadaeth ddiwylliannol.
Rhai dangosyddion sylfaenol yw cofrestru, digido a hygyrchedd ar-lein casgliadau treftadaeth, ac ers 2014, data am gasgliadau o darddiad digidol (perchenogaeth, cofrestru a hygyrchedd ar-lein), rheoli treftadaeth ddigidol (ariannu, defnyddio staff a gwirfoddolwyr, lledaenu a defnyddio data, data agored, archifo digidol). Mae rhai cydrannau wedi’u seilio ar yr arolwg ENUMERATE.
Trefnir yr arolwg hwn bob dwy flynedd gan FARO. Yn ogystal â’n galluogi i fonitro datblygiad y sector treftadaeth ddiwylliannol gan ddefnyddio ffigurau cyfoes, gallwn feincnodi’r sefydliadau a chyrff treftadaeth. Mae’r holl ddata ar gael i’r cyhoedd ar y wefan www.cijferboekcultureelerfgoed.be
The Regional Openness Index of ACTION SEE, targets the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia, whereas Kosovo was ranked third. This index has an advanced methodology with around 100 indicators per institutions which measures their openness and Open Data.
In the last two measurements it has been identified that officials institutions are not familiar with concept of open data and even with what type of data they own which can be shared for a wider use. A more deeper look will be in connection to the data owned from the institutions and if they are released how it can beneficial to the interested parties. Also how Open Data Kosovo is working towards making governmental data accessible and free of usage.
OpenCoesione - The Italian open government strategy on cohesion policyLuigi Reggi
Carlo Amati – Simona De Luca – Luigi Reggi
OpenCoesione Steering Committee
European Commission Webinar: Cohesion policy national portals 2014-2020
Discover different approaches to the creation of the national Cohesion policy portal from France, Italy and Poland
6 February 2015
DG Regional Policy, Brussels
Presentation at the OGD2011 conference taking place in Vienna on the 16th of June 2011: Moldova Open Government Data by Vlad Manoil, eGovernment Center Moldova.
(License: CC-BY 3.0)
Survey and monitoring digital heritage in Flanders | Bart De NilFARO
The Cijferboek cultureel erfgoed (literal translation: book of numbers cultural heritage) is an initiative of the Agency for Arts and Heritage of the Flemish government and FARO. Flemish interface for cultural heritage.
It collects biannual figures on the operation of the authorized (with accreditation) museums, archives and heritage libraries, and the subsidized nationwide heritage organizations and heritage bodies.
It includes among other data about the management form, staff, volunteers, financial resources, infrastructure (depot), collection size and management, activities, access conditions, visitor numbers and services.
With this tool we want to monitor the evolution of the cultural heritage sector with accurate statistics. Thus, we underpin the (policy)support for cultural heritage.
Cijferboek Cultureel Erfgoed: Arolygu a Monitro Treftadaeth Ddigidol yn Fflan...RCAHMW
Cynllun o eiddo Asiantaeth Celfyddydau a Threftadaeth Llywodraeth Fflandrys a FARO: Y Rhyngwyneb Ffleminaidd ar gyfer Treftadaeth Ddiwylliannol yw Cijferboek cultureel erfgoed (cyfieithiad llythrennol: llyfr ffigurau treftadaeth ddiwylliannol). Mae’n casglu ffigurau ddwywaith y flwyddyn am weithrediad amgueddfeydd, archifdai a llyfrgelloedd treftadaeth awdurdodedig (y rhai sydd â label ardystio). Mae’n cynnwys data am y drefn reoli, staff, gwirfoddolwyr, adnoddau ariannol, isadeiledd, maint y casgliad a’r dull o’i reoli, gweithgareddau, amodau mynediad, nifer yr ymwelwyr a gwasanaethau.
Bydd Bert de Nil yn trafod sut mae’r data hwn yn ei gwneud hi’n bosibl i’r sector treftadaeth ddiwylliannol gael ei monitro gyda chymorth ystadegau manwl gywir a sut y gall fod yn sail i bolisi a chynnal treftadaeth ddiwylliannol.
Rhai dangosyddion sylfaenol yw cofrestru, digido a hygyrchedd ar-lein casgliadau treftadaeth, ac ers 2014, data am gasgliadau o darddiad digidol (perchenogaeth, cofrestru a hygyrchedd ar-lein), rheoli treftadaeth ddigidol (ariannu, defnyddio staff a gwirfoddolwyr, lledaenu a defnyddio data, data agored, archifo digidol). Mae rhai cydrannau wedi’u seilio ar yr arolwg ENUMERATE.
Trefnir yr arolwg hwn bob dwy flynedd gan FARO. Yn ogystal â’n galluogi i fonitro datblygiad y sector treftadaeth ddiwylliannol gan ddefnyddio ffigurau cyfoes, gallwn feincnodi’r sefydliadau a chyrff treftadaeth. Mae’r holl ddata ar gael i’r cyhoedd ar y wefan www.cijferboekcultureelerfgoed.be
The Regional Openness Index of ACTION SEE, targets the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia, whereas Kosovo was ranked third. This index has an advanced methodology with around 100 indicators per institutions which measures their openness and Open Data.
In the last two measurements it has been identified that officials institutions are not familiar with concept of open data and even with what type of data they own which can be shared for a wider use. A more deeper look will be in connection to the data owned from the institutions and if they are released how it can beneficial to the interested parties. Also how Open Data Kosovo is working towards making governmental data accessible and free of usage.
OpenCoesione - The Italian open government strategy on cohesion policyLuigi Reggi
Carlo Amati – Simona De Luca – Luigi Reggi
OpenCoesione Steering Committee
European Commission Webinar: Cohesion policy national portals 2014-2020
Discover different approaches to the creation of the national Cohesion policy portal from France, Italy and Poland
6 February 2015
DG Regional Policy, Brussels
Presentation at the OGD2011 conference taking place in Vienna on the 16th of June 2011: Moldova Open Government Data by Vlad Manoil, eGovernment Center Moldova.
(License: CC-BY 3.0)
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Meeting of the EU Public Administration Network (EUPAN)
Joint session on enhancing institutional and administrative capacity building
Rome, 16-17 October 2014
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UNODC - Criminal Justice Responses to Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Propert...UNESCO Venice Office
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Petra Kuchař, hlavní architekt eGovernmentu, prezentuje koncepci otevřených dat ministerstva vnitra. Vystoupení proběhlo u příležitosti zahájení soutěže Společně otevíráme data 2015. http://www.otevrenadata.cz/
Pavla Brady's (1st deputy mayor of Opava) presentation at Prague Open Data Meetup #7: Linked Open Cities.
The event was organised by Otakar Motejl Fund and LOD2 project. More info: bit.ly/open-cities-meetup
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The event was organised by Otakar Motejl Fund and LOD2 project. More info: bit.ly/open-cities-meetup
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The event was organised by Otakar Motejl Fund and LOD2 project. More info: bit.ly/open-cities-meetup
SC6 Workshop 1: From your data to data stories - BigDataEurope, SC6 WorkshopBigData_Europe
Presentation by Anna Triantafillou, ATC and Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR ‘Demokritos’, at the first workshop of Societal Challlenge 6 in the BigDataEurope project, taking place in Luxembourg on 18 November 2015.
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Civic Monitoring - the example of the Italian open finance platforms OpenCoes...Luigi Reggi
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http://www.iwi.unibe.ch/content/digitale_nachhaltigkeit/veranstaltungen/workshop_on_open_finance_and_participatory_budgeting/index_ger.html
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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2. Introduction
• Founded in 2007 as a grassroot NGO
• Professional operation since 2010
• 5 employees
• Main donors: OSF, CEE Trust, EU, Embassies +
V4 fund, individual donations
• Annual budget around $ 150.000
3. Main pillars of operation
• Anti-corruption advocacy
• Research
• Data Projects
Special focus on Open Government Data
4. Anti-corruption advocacy
• Advocating for reforms and assessing government policy in the
following fields:
• Public procurements,
• Asset declarations,
• FOI issues,
• Party and campaign financing
• Whistleblower protection
• Lobby regulation
• Monitoring the OGP process of the Hungarian government
• Monitoring the implementation of the government’s anti-corruption
programme
• Monitoring campaign costs of the elections in April 2014
• Anti-corruption minimum campaign
5. Research
• Research on whistleblower protection in the CEE region (2011)
• Chapter on anti-corruption agencies in TI’s NIS (2011)
• Research on the transparency of public procurements in the V4 region
(2012)
• Mid-term evaluation of the government from the corruption perspective
(2012)
• Local research country correspondent for the EU’s anti-corruption report
(2013-)
•Evaluation of the government-term from the perspective of corruption
(2014)
• „Red flags” in public procurements (with TI Hungary) (2014-2015)
• Stringer for research companies
6. Open Data Projects
• k-monitor.hu – database & map of corruption and public spending
• ahalo.hu – database on public procurements, EU funds, agricultural
subsidies, company information and elite networks
• opendata.hu
• Increasing civil efficiency through open data – project to enhance the
capabilities of NGOs on how to use data in their advocy and communication
activities
• Partner in the project “Parliamentary Montoring for Transparency &
Anti-Corruption in the V4 Region”
• k-spots (2014) mobile app
• Red flagging tool (2014-2015)
7. k-monitor.hu
• Aim: Create a database and a
map of corruption in Hungary
• Objective information,
• Traceable cases,
• archiving local and old news as well
• manual monitoring of the
Hungarian online press
8. k-monitor.hu - database
• K-Monitor’s first project
• 2007 offline database
• 2008 first webpage (Drupal)
• 2010 new webpage
• 2014 over 30000 articles
9. k-monitor.hu
• Possible data sources?
• Official data
• only anonimously available
• mostly on petty corruption
• high latency
• Press
• lots of information but hard to collect
• biased
• libel cases possible
• Whistleblowers (leaking vs. bribespot)
• good visibility needed to receive stories
• trustworthy? - danger of defamation
• protection of personal data
10. k-monitor.hu
• Methodology I.
• Press articles + whistleblower reports (restricted access)
• Only online press
• Focus on most popular national & regional news portals
• Daily monitoring + archives (earliest from 1998)
• Record articles that report on eg. dubious spending of public funds
(pf), corruption, misuse of pf, waste of pf, transparency of spending
pfs, suspicious lobbying, conflict of interest, nepotism, fraud,
embezzlement, bribery, cartel, etc.
11. k-monitor.hu
• Methodology II.
• Both specific cases and related issues in general
• Record articles that confute an accusation, publishing
rectifications
• Tagging persons, institutions involved
• Using predefined keywords that describe an article
• Tagging locations
• Filtering duplication of news
• Creating summarising articles for major cases, recording the overall
cost of corruption - if available
13. k-monitor.hu - map
• Cases connected to
counties and
townships
• Points out the lack of
investigative reporting
outside of Budapest
• Even cases in
„dense” counties are
mostly connected to
national scandals
14. k-monitor.hu
• Who are our users?
• Citizens looking for information on politicans
• Companies checking competitors or possible partners
• Journalists looking for backgroud material
• Researchers
• Around 12000 invidual visitors a month
• 2/3 through Google, 1/3 from referrals and directly
• Awards
• Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum Award from the Hungarian
FOI & Data Protection Commissioner (Ombudsman)
• Best practice in access to information at EU AC report 2014
15. k-monitor.hu
• Further application of collected data:
• Source for evaluation at Telenor ethical company award
http://telenoretikusvallalatdij.hu/Palyazati_felhivas
• Rankings of politicians, institutions
http://vastagbor.blog.hu/2010/04/26/ub_2
• Timeline of cases
http://buntetoeljarasok.transparency.hu/
• Create the network of people involved aHalo
• Served as red flag in OLAFs PP research
• Media analysis: Assessment of portals excluding or leaving out
specific topics
16. k-monitor.hu
• Challenges
• Code is not open source
• Stories from blogs are getting more important
• More specific locations needed
• Maintenance is very time consuming
• Hard to maintain high-quality with volunteers
• Sustainabilty issues - donors
• Counting costs of corruption is misleading
• Even some decent people will hate you
• Threats & lawsuits
17. k-monitor.hu
• Future steps
• Test methods to substitute or facilitate manual work
• Turn it into open source and build an API
• Revision of tags and articles according to experiences and new ideas
• Use tags that describe processes
• Introduce keywords that didn’t seem necessary but have to be
applied for older articles
• Incorporate blogs
• More locally-focussed content mobile app
• Implement geo tagging mobile app
• Track relations between entities and actors in press articles
19. Basic idea: demonstrate the connection
between people, companies and
institutions from the K-Monitor database
VS.
Extended idea: Why not incorporating
information from official sources and
company registry?
20. …. Yes! why not?
- Monstre project started in Summer 2011
- In cooperation with TI Hungary and the
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
- Expected launch: October 2012, January
2013, May 2013, September 2013…
- Accessible since October 2013 but still
in beta version with lots of work to be
done.
21. Disclosing and visualizing personal and
business connections between Hungarian
politicians and businesspeople
SCRAPED DATA:
Election database
Procurement
database
EU subsidies
Agricultural subsidies
Company information
NGO database
Investigative articles
from K-Monitor’s
corruption database
MANUALLY EDITED:
Type of relations
(interpersonal, interorg,
person/org)
Data on more than 90.000 transactions (parties,
value, type and subject of transactions, date, any
related transaction)
Data on more than 45.000 individuals (business
interests and political affiliations), personal
relationships (if known)
Data on more than 40.000 organizations /
institutions (stakeholders and officers of private
companies, officers of municipalities, related
transactions)
22.
23.
24.
25. SHOW THE
NETWORK
MAP!
AN EXAMPLE: THE
PROFILE OF A
MUNICIPALITY
RELATED
PEOPLE
RELATED
ORGANIZATIONS
RELATED
TRANSACTIONS
NAME
TYPE OF
RELATION
START
DATE OF
RELATION
END DATE
OF
RELATION
SOURCE
OF
RELATION
27. Mistakes:
• The final project plan was too ambitious
• Started the project without sufficient
capacities
– No proper analysis of the availability of quality data
when merging the two project concepts
– No experience with such data intensive projects
(scraping, mashing, cleaning databases)
– No sufficient capacity for cleaning data
– Little financial capacities to correct errors
– Treating developer as partner, not subcontractor
28. Unfortunate:
• Academics we wanted to partner with acted
as rivals
• Data sources changed regularly
• Developer had to be fired - hard to find a
good ruby developer in Hungary
29. Lessons learnt:
• Properly assess your capacities in advance
• Start at the basics
• Find a good developer and experts before the
implementation
• Be able to give up parts of the project
• Start testing it as soon as possible
30. Success:
• Managed to mash up data that have not been
linked before
• Created unique content
• Great experiences and lessons for future
projects
• Solid base for further developments
31. ahalo.hu – other projects: Red flags
PUBLIC
PROCUREMENTS
OF THE
MUNICIPALITY