On 6-7th June 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the forum for the European data economy will be launched, discussing issues along the data value chain, open data and big data! Organised by the European Commission and four EU-co-funded projects, the European Data Forum 2012 will be established as an annual conference discussing relevant data topics for … Continue reading
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New in CKAN: integrated Linked Data output
The CKAN data portal software now has fully integrated output of metadata as RDF linked data, in XML or N3 format. To see it at work, simply add the appropriate prefix to the URL for a dataset. For example, here is a dataset on the DataHub (as it happens, part of the LODcloud). Would you … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged CKAN, Linked Data, Linked Open Data, okf, OKFN, open data, open government, publicdata.eu, the data hub
Serbian statistical data as Linked Open Data
National statistical offices across the world already possess an abundance of structured data, both in their databases and files in various formats, but lack the means for exposing, sharing, and interlinking this data on the Semantic Web. Statistical data underpins many of the mash-ups and visualizations we see on the Web, as well as being … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged open government data, Serbia, statistical data
Open Data and Public Sector: applying Austrian experience in Czech Republic
Availability of public sector information and transparency of public sector have been discussed in the Czech Republic for some time now. Although public sector organisations provide various datasets to the public they are often difficult to find and due to the lack of data formats standardisation attempts to reuse these datasets in useful applications may … Continue reading
Posted in Events, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged Austria, czech republic, ogd, open data, prague
LODStats – Real-time Data Web Statistics
We are happy to announce the first public release of LODStats. LODStats is a statement-stream-based approach for gathering comprehensive statistics about datasets adhering to the Resource Description Framework (RDF). LODStats was implemented in Python and integrated into the CKAN dataset metadata registry. Thus it helps to obtain a comprehensive picture of the current state of … Continue reading
Advocats on transparency
Often the concept of Linked Open Data is hard to understand for “ordinary people”. The innovative power and the technological potential is somethimes hidden behind nerdy experts diction. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) works day-by-day to get a bridge between these tech-talk and the interestes and motivation of the target groups which are intended to … Continue reading
LOD2 Consortium has been expanded
On September 1st this year the LOD2 project enlargement officially started, bringing five new partners into the LOD2 consortium and enhancing the LOD2 project by their additional unique expertise. The new members of the consortium – consisting of research organizations and business enterprises – include two academic partners, the University of Economics in Prague (Czech … Continue reading
LOD2 organised Government Linked Data Workshop in Warsaw was big success
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 … Continue reading
LOD2 organises Government Linked Data workshop in Poland
Together with the Government Linked Data (GLD) working group of W3C the LOD2 project co-ordinates a Government Linked Data workshop on the 20th of October in the afternoon in the course of the Open Government Data Camp 2011 (OGD Camp 2011) in Warsaw, Poland, taking place from 20. – 21. of October 2011. The workshop … Continue reading

