Last week on the 20th of October 2011 the LOD2 project organised a Government Linked Data (GLD) workshop in the course of the OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw, Poland together with the W3C GLD working group.
In total the workshop offered 11 presentations (3 keynote talks and 8 lightning talks) from 10 different countries and had about 45 participants. The presentations & participants from that many different countries shows that the topic of Linked Open Data / Government Linked Data (GLD) has now really reached the European and worldwide Open Data community. Beside and around the topic of GLD there were lots of additional discussions about the areas of interoperability and data- & metadata integration using open data.
There has been published an interesting paper by the ISA Framework (ISA – the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations programme) in September 2011: TOWARDS OPEN GOVERNMENT METADATA – that fits very well in the mentioned disussions of the Warsaw OGD Camp!
As one output we would like to invite all interested persons to discuss the GLD topic with us on the LOD2 public mailing list in the future – please register & participate!!
As follows you can find some photos (CC-BY license: LOD2) as well as all links to the slides of the mentioned presentations for use and re-use!
Keynote Presentations
Martin Kaltenböck
LOD2 project (Creating knowledge out of interlinked data) and Semantic Web Company CFO, Austria
Title: Putting the L in front: from Open Data to Linked Open Data
Slides on Slideshare
Bernadette Hyland
W3C Government Linked Data Working Group, co-chair and 3 Round Stones CEO, USA
Title: Why Share and Who Benefits? A Progress Update on the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group and the Value of Linked Data
Slides on Slideshare
Luca Martinelli
European Commission, EC DG INFSO, Luxembourg
Title: The Open Data Strategy of the European Commission
See Slides of Luca Martinelli
Lightning Talks
Erik Mannens, University of Ghent (Belgium)
Free Your Metadata — Inexpensive, straightforward Linked Data
See Slides
Federico Cairo and Giuseppe Futia, ICONVIS (Italy)
Linking and visualizing public data through ontologies
See Slides
Sarven Capadisli, DERI (Ireland)
DataGovIE – public dataspace for Irish government data following the LD principles
See Slides
Tomáš Knap, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
OpenData.cz Use Case: Transparent Public Procurement in Czech Republic – Lessons Learned, Current and Future Effort
See Slides
Philipp Frischmuth, University of Leipzig (Germany)
scoreboard.lod2.eu – the use of LOD via OntoWiki for publication and exploration of open governmental data.
See Slides
Matthew Pearce, The National Archives (UK)
The UK linked open data approach
Tomasz Kaczmarek, I2G (Poland)
OGD in Poland – Opportunities
See Slides
Alvaro Graves (USA)
Apps and Linked Open Data
See Slides
Further information on the GLD workshop as follows:
