Tag Archives: Open Government Data

Thomas Thurner

EU-Report on the requirements for a paneuropean Open Government Data Portal

by , Category: Linked Data & Open Data, Open Government Data, Tools & Software

The recently published report on a hearing of an experts in Luxembourg this November, provides a snap-shoot on the discussion if a central open data infrastructure may make sense. The experts group list several positive effects like union-wide comparability of some government data set, as well as the role of being motor for national and regional initiatives. It is stressed several times, that a swift progress, in coming those plans reality, is crucial for success.

Read more at: Report – Technical workshop on the goals and requirements for a pan-European data portal

Andreas Blumauer

Open Government Data around the World

by , Category: Calls & Competitions, Linked Data & Open Data, Open Government Data

My colleague Thomas Thurner has put some Open Government Data initiatives on a map to get an overview what is happening around the world in this area. If you have any additional initiatives to add, please feel free to contact Thomas (office @ semantic-web DOT at) to get access – he will support you in this!

This is an important step to collect initiatives worldwide so we can follow our objective to build a network of OpenGov initiatives around the world in the course of building a focal point for the LOD topic – many thanks for your support!

(This initiative is part of the LOD2 project which was recently started in Leipzig.)

Thomas Thurner

The Open Government Data Meetup in Vienna

by , Category: Open Government Data, Politics

Show what is possible! As Martin Kaltenböck – one of the organizers oft the recently held Semantic Web Meetup on an Austrian Open Government Data Initiative – said, there is a lot of enthusiasm and energy to inform the public and engage politics about the impact a initative similar to those in US and UK may have for Austria. And the KickOff was promissing. Inspiring talks by Rufus Pollock (UK) and Stefano Bertolo (EU) where giving an insight whats possible in the specific field of Open Government Data, as well as how a start of an initiative can look like.

As ePSI-Platform wrote in their blog
The Austrian Open Data initiative is online and at work.

The event was very well attended, and brought together stakeholders from science, industry, government and citizen activists, A promising melange of people which may carry the project forward to very concrete UseCases and Trials in the very near future. As the initiative is ment to be carried by a broad group of proponents, the follow-up of the meeting will be a round table talk, of those who are willing to contribute in upcoming light-tower projects and opening concrete sets of government data for that.

The next meeting of the Austrian Open Data Initiative
takes place on the 12th May at 9.30 a.m. in
Room D, quartier 21 of the Vienna Museum Quarter.

Find Documentation of the Meetup on Zukunftsweb, browse the Picture’s Album or read the conclusions at ePSI-Platform.

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