The GetLOD Story has been prepared for the smeSpire Challenge Award 2014: http://www.smespire.eu/smespire-challenge-2014-winners/.

1. GetLOD
GetLOD is a solution jointly designed
and developed by Planetek Italia
and Sinergis during the development
of the Geoportal of Emilia Romagna
Region

2. dati.regione.it
OGC WFS
Download
GeoRepository
LOD Back-end
GI Middleware
OGC CSW
MD 19115
RDF
dump
TripleStore
www
OGC server
GI Data & Metadata
MD server
Triple server
LOD Front-end
JAVA
API
mapping file
F2R
catalogazione
Ricerca
API
connettori
CKAN API

3. GetLOD: components
 Protegè (OWL)
 Jena, Sesame (OWL/RDF)
 Silk (Interlinking)
 OGC-Server (Data access, WFS-CSW)
 J2EE (JAX-WS)
 CKAN (Catalogo dati open)
 Allegrograph (Triple Store - SPARQL)
 Sparallax (LOD Browser)

4. a
Planetek + Sinergis
production

5. The GetLOD Story
Dr. ESCO and Mr. SPIRE about
INSPIRE LOD data in next years

6. Good afternoon and
nice to meet you, my
name is Mr. SPIRE and
I’m going to interview
you

7. Nice to meet you, my
name is Dr. ESCO, I am
an Energy Savings
Company …

8. … my business is to
provide solutions to
reduce energy
consumption of
households, offices and
public buildings

9. Hmm … interesting!!
How does it work?

10. Well, first of all I collect a
lot of data related to
energy performance of
buildings, I analyse them
…

11. … then I propose to
owners some possible
solutions to reduce their
energy consumption
and save money.

12. If the owner accept the
proposal, I usually install
smart meters to get real-time
data and monitor
the consumption of my
customers.

13. And what type of
data do you usually
need?
Are you also working
with geodata?

14. Of course. I usually need
reference geodata like
buildings, addresses and
cadastral parcels, …

15. … and specific
properties of buildings
like energy certificates,
electricity and gas
consumption in recent
years, heating and
cooling systems …

16. … and data about the
context surrounding the
buildings, like historical
weather conditions, solar
radiation, district
heating, …

17. Ok … but how could
GetLOD facilitate your
business?
And how you get
benefit from INSPIRE?

18. Well … I spend a lot of
time in searching and
retrieving local data from
multiple sources.

19. Even if available as
“open data”, many
times it is not easy to get
them in a “single click”,
they are “hidden”, …

20. … they are not
harmonised, and it is
always painful to have
them really integrated.

21. It would be much easier
if I could access inter-
Linked Open Data in one
click only from multiple
sources!

22. Hmm … I don’t
understand … could
you give me an
example?

23. Sure!
Imagine I want to get
data about a district in
Reggio Emilia (Italy) …

24. … with “buildings” and
“addresses” taken from
the municipal WFS ...

25. … and “energy
certificates” taken from
the regional database …

26. … and photovoltaic
arrays already mounted
on roofs, taken from the
national service of
Gestore Servizi
Energetici, …

27. … and gas/electricity
consumption of building
units in 2012 and 2013
from the service
provided by the National
Tax Agency

28. GetLOD could help the Local
Administration to configure
“ad hoc” downloads from
different services (like WFS)
and provide just the data I
need already “interliked”

29. GetLOD could help the
Local Administration to
configure “ad hoc”
downloads from different
services (like WFS) and
provide just the data I need
already “interliked”

30. This means that the
local authority may
play as a sort of
“broker”, able to
connect multiple
download services and
provide you …

31. … what exactly?

32. Well … I can get both simple
“flat” shapefiles and RDF
XML-encoded data, together
with metadata provided by
catalogue services, if
available at source

33. This way you may
access interlinked data
you need, available
“on demand” and
navigate them in one
click … right?

34. Exactly!
And I save a lot of time,
so I am able to produce
a better proposal at a
lower cost.

35. Wow, this is very
interesting … also
considering recent
researchers, like the
LOD4WFS recently
presented at AGILE …

36. http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/~j_jone02/publications/AGILE2014-LOD4WFS.pdf

37. Thanks a lot for this
interesting talk,
Dr. ESCO
Thank you, Mr. SPIRE,
and see you next
year at INSPIRE Conf

38. Ole Kirk Christiansen
(voice: Massimo Zotti)
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
(voice: Piergiorgio Cipriano)

39. movie characters based on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdDU_BBJW9Y&feature=kp