Today, on the Linked Open Data Cloud, there are hundreds of data sets comprised of over 25 billion statements with hundreds of millions of links between them. These data sets don’t share a single schema. They cooperate without needing to coordinate and interlink by using the same fundamental mechanism that allows the World Wide Web to flourish, the URL.

The Government Linked Data (GLD) Workshop in the course of the Open Government Data Camp 2011 in Warsaw, Poland (taking place in the afternoon of the 20th of October 2011) will discuss the current status and best practices for linking open government data.

The workhop as well as the panel discussion will be organised by the LOD2 project and the W3C GLD working group.

Agenda

The workshop is planned for 4 hours in the afternoon 02.00pm to 06.00pm CEST of the 20th October 2011.

Keynote Session (1 hour)

• LOD2EU-funded (FP7) research project aiming to take the Web of Linked Data to the next level. Main research challenges: improve coherence and quality of data published on the Web, close the performance gap between relational and RDF data management, establish trust on the Linked Data Web and ...
  Martin Kaltenböck, LOD2 project, Managing Partner of Semantic Web Company, Austria: From Open Data to Linked Open Data, the LOD2 project and the respective Use Cases: publicdata.eu
• W3CThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). Founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT and currently headed by him, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of ...
  Bernadette Hyland, W3C Government Linked Data Working Group co-chair and 3 Round Stones CEO, USA: Why Share and Who Benefits & the progress of the W3C Government Linked Data WG (objective, status, participation)
• EC DG INFSO
  Luca Martinelli, European Commission (DG INFSO): The Open Data Strategy of the European Commission
  http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/open_data/index_en.htm
  http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm

Lighting Talks Session (1.5 hours)

• Best Practices and concrete Use Cases of Linked Open Government Data
  (~ 8 lightning talks a 6 minutes & 4 minutes Q&A each)
  Please see Call for Ligthningtalks!!

Interactive session in small working groups (1 hour)

• Work on 3-4 topics around GLD in 3-4 small & moderated working groups

Wrap Up and Close Up (1/2 hour)

• Presentation and discussion of the results of the small working groups
• Wrap up and close up of the workshop

Call for Ligthningtalks

For the ‘best practise lightning talk session‘ the organisers of the workshop announce a Call for Ligthningtalks (CfL) to invite interested people to write a short application about their concrete Linked Government data project to be chosen to present this best practise in the course of the GLD workshop at the OGD camp 2011!

CfL facts

• Deadline for submission of lightning talks: 12.10. 2011, 08.00pm CEST
• Information about chosen lightning talks: not later then 14.10. 2011, 10.00am CEST
• Lightning talks will take place in the course of the GLD workshop: 20.10. 2011, 02.00pm – 06.00pm CEST
• Call for Lightning Talks submission form