Open Government Data on the Web: A Semantic Approach

Hoxha, Julia; Brahaj, Armand

doi:10.1109/eidwt.2011.24

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“…Besides, data are frequently of poor quality (Kuk & Davis, 2011), and offered in heterogeneous formats missing clear semantics that clarify what the data describe (Hoxha & Brahaj, 2011). According to a number of researchers, a key challenge is for users to make sense of the data (Artigas & Chun, 2013;Graves & Hendler, 2013;De Cesare et al, 2013;Cornford et al, 2013;Hoxha & Brahaj, 2011). Use of open data requires knowledge found in different communities, that is, across core stakeholder groups in the public data community (Ojo & Janssen, 2013).…”

Section: Innovation Competitions and Challenges With Re-use Of Open Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Graves and Hendler (2013) claim for instance that there is an important portion of the population who could benefit from the use of public data but are unable do so because they cannot perform the essential operations needed to collect, process, merge and make sense of the data. Besides, data are frequently of poor quality (Kuk & Davis, 2011), and offered in heterogeneous formats missing clear semantics that clarify what the data describe (Hoxha & Brahaj, 2011). According to a number of researchers, a key challenge is for users to make sense of the data (Artigas & Chun, 2013;Graves & Hendler, 2013;De Cesare et al, 2013;Cornford et al, 2013;Hoxha & Brahaj, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The story of the sixth myth of open data and open government

Hellberg

Hedström

2015

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to describe a local government effort to realise an open government agenda. This is done using a storytelling approach. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data are based on a case study. The authors participated in, as well as followed, the process of realising an open government agenda on a local level, where citizens were invited to use open public data as the basis for developing apps and external Web solutions. Based on an interpretative tradition, they chose storytelling as a way to scrutinise the competition process. In this paper, they present a story about the competition process using the story elements put forward by Kendall and Kendall (2012). Findings – The research builds on existing research by proposing the myth that the “public” wants to make use of open data. The authors provide empirical insights into the challenge of gaining benefits from open public data. In particular, they illustrate the difficulties in getting citizens interested in using open public data. Their case shows that people seem to like the idea of open public data, but do not necessarily participate actively in the data reuse process. Research limitations/implications – The results are based on one empirical study. Further research is, therefore, needed. The authors would especially welcome more studies that focus on citizens’ interest and willingness to reuse open public data. Practical implications – This study illustrates the difficulties of promoting the reuse of open public data. Public organisations that want to pursue an open government agenda can use these findings as empirical insights. Originality/value – This paper answers the call for more empirical studies on public open data. Furthermore, it problematises the “myth” of public interest in the reuse of open public data.

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Section: Innovation Competitions and Challenges With Re-use Of Open Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Innovation Competitions and Challenges With Re-use Of Open Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

The story of the sixth myth of open data and open government

Hellberg

Hedström

2015

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

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“…Domain knowledge has been used to cope with emerging intelligent data ranging from E-commerce [15] to E-governance [16] over a wide field of inquiry including Sentiment Analysis [17] or Science Commons [18].…”

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A New Methodology for Collecting and Exploiting Vast Amounts of Dynamic Data

Legrand

Rousseaux

Soulier

et al. 2012

2012 Third International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies

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The current approaches aiming at collective intelligence modelling often rely on traditional methods (ontologies, graphs). Even if those traditional methods may have reached their limitations in front of demanding emerging practices, the major conceptual tools enrolled for current and future Web are deeply rooted in the information storage and retrieval practices. The focus is on developing more original technologies for capturing, analyzing, exploiting and visualizing data. The agencements/arrangements provide the appropriate epistemological context of our contribution. The simplicial complexes are the mathematical support of the methodology. The result is a shift from networks studied towards graph theory to higher dimensional networks structures. The representation is more than graphs, or even hypergraphs. A geometric perspective shows the arrangement as assembling polyhedra of all sizes. Their contacts can form chains of adjacencies. It does not only generalize the notion of path graphs but it also makes available a range of quantitative and qualitative tools on the structure. Thus, separate parts, which can be more or less strongly linked, length of paths to traverse, and even loops or "missing parts", are meaningful metadata representations.

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“…Obviously, the link of open datasets has to offer many benefits [7], and we've witnessed increasing interest in making government data free. Governments recognized Open Data as on approach to increase transparency, advance citizen engagement, economic welfare as well as improving policy-making and public decision-making.…”

Section: Open Government Datamentioning

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Outstanding Challenges in Recent Open Government Data Initiatives

Algemili¹

2016

IJEEEE

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Abstract:In recent years, we have witnessed increasing interest in government data. Many governments around the world have sensed the value of its passive data sets. These governments started their Open Data policies, yet many countries are on the way converting raw data into useful representation. This paper surveys the previous efforts of Open Data initiatives. It discusses the various challenges that open data projects may encounter during the transformation from passive data sets towards Open Data culture. It reaches out project teams acquiring their practical assessment. Thus, an online form has been distributed among project teams. The questionnaire was developed in alignment with previous literature of data integration challenges. 138 eligible professional participated, and their responds has been analyzed by the researcher. The result section identifies the most critical challenges from project-teams' point-of-view, and the findings show four obstacles that stand out as critical challenges facing project teams. This paper casts on these challenges, and it attempts to indicate the missing gap between current guidelines and practical experience. Accordingly, this paper presents the current infrastructure of Open Data framework followed by additional recommendations that may lead to successful implementation of Open Data development.

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Open Government Data on the Web: A Semantic Approach

Cited by 25 publications

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The story of the sixth myth of open data and open government

The story of the sixth myth of open data and open government

A New Methodology for Collecting and Exploiting Vast Amounts of Dynamic Data

Outstanding Challenges in Recent Open Government Data Initiatives

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