Abstract
In December 2007, thirty activists held a meeting in California to define the concept of open public data. For the first time eight Open Government Data (OPG) principles were settled; OPG should be Complete, Primary (reporting data at an high level of granularity), Timely, Accessible, Machine processable, Non-discriminatory, Non-proprietary, License-free. Since the inception of the Open Data philosophy there has been a constant increase in information released improving the communication channel between public administrations and their citizens.
Open data offers government, companies and citizens information to make better decisions. We claim Public Administrations, that are the main producers and one of the consumers of Open Data, might effectively extract important information by integrating its own data with open data sources.
This paper reports the activities carried on during a research project on Open Data for Youth Policies. The project was devoted to explore the youth situation in the municipalities and provinces of the Emilia Romagna region (Italy), in particular, to examine data on population, education and work. We identified interesting data sources both from the open data community and from the private repositories of local governments related to the Youth Policies. The selected sources have been integrated and, the result of the integration by means of a useful navigator tool have been shown up. In the end, we published new information on the web as Linked Open Data. Since the process applied and the tools used are generic, we trust this paper to be an example and a guide for new projects that aims to create new knowledge through Open Data.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
information available on dati.gov.it at 31st July 2015.
- 5.
- 6.
The Emilia Romagna Region has nine provinces (Piacenza, Parma, Reggio Nell’Emilia, Modena, Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini, Ravenna) and 340 municipalities.
- 7.
- 8.
- 9.
- 10.
- 11.
- 12.
- 13.
- 14.
- 15.
- 16.
- 17.
- 18.
- 19.
- 20.
- 21.
- 22.
WordNet is a thesaurus for the English language, that groups terms (called lemmas in the WordNet terminology) into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short definitions (called gloss), and connects the synsets through a wide network of semantic relationships.
- 23.
- 24.
- 25.
References
Davies, T., Sharif, R.M., Alonso, J.M.: Open data barometer global report, (second edition). Technical report, World Wide Web Foundation (2015)
Manville, C., Cochrane, G., Cave, J., Millard, J., Pederson, J.K., Thaarup, R.K., Liebe, A., Wissner, M., Massink, R., Kotterink, B.: Mapping smart cities in the eu. Technical report, European Union (2014)
Dameri, R.P., Rossignoli, C., Bonomi, S.: How to govern smart cities? Empirical evidences from Italy. In: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on eGovernment 2015 (ECEG 2015), p. 61. Academic Conferences Limited (2015)
Beneventano, D., Bergamaschi, S., Gagliardelli, L., Po, L.: Open data for improving youth policies. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2015), Part of IC3K 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, 12–14 November 2015, pp. 118–129 (2015)
Beneventano, D., Bergamaschi, S., Guerra, F., Vincini, M.: Synthesizing an integrated ontology. IEEE Internet Comput. 7, 42–51 (2003)
Bergamaschi, S., Castano, S., Vincini, M., Beneventano, D.: Semantic integration of heterogeneous information sources. Data Knowl. Eng. 36, 215–249 (2001)
Bergamaschi, S., Beneventano, D., Corni, A., Kazazi, E., Orsini, M., Po, L., Sorrentino, S.: The open source release of the MOMIS data integration system. In: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2011), Maratea, Italy, 26–29 June 2011, pp. 175–186 (2011)
Miller, G.A., Beckwith, R., Fellbaum, C., Gross, D., Miller, K.: Wordnet: an on-line lexical database. Int. J. Lexicogr. 3, 235–244 (1990)
Tufte, E.R.: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire (1986)
Fayyad, U.M., Wierse, A., Grinstein, G.G.: Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (2002)
Sallam, R.L., Hostmann, B., Schlegel, K., Tapadinhas, J., Parenteau, J., Oestreich, T.W.: Magic quadrant for business intelligence and analytics platforms. Technical report, Gartner. Gartner Research Note G00270380 (2015)
Bizer, C., Cyganiak, R.: D2rq-lessons learned. In: W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, p. 35 (2007)
Benedetti, F., Bergamaschi, S., Po, L.: Lodex: a tool for visual querying linked open data. In: Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2015 Posters and Demo Track, Bethlehem, PA, USA, 11 October 2015 (2015)
Benedetti, F., Bergamaschi, S., Po, L.: Visual querying LOD sources with lodex. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2015, Palisades, NY, USA, 7–10 October 2015, pp. 12:1–12:8 (2015)
Sahoo, S.S., Halb, W., Hellmann, S., Idehen, K., Thibodeau Jr., T., Auer, S., Sequeda, J., Ezzat, A.: A survey of current approaches for mapping of relational databases to RDF. Technical report, W3C RDB2RDF Incubator Group Report (2009)
Carrara, W., Chan, W.S., Fischer, S., van Steenbergen, E.: Creating value through open data. Technical report, European Commission (2015)
Acknowledgements
This project has been realized thanks to the collaboration of the Department of Culture, Youth and Policies for the Legality of the Emilia Romagna region, the Municipality of Modena (Italy), and the DBGROUP of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
We are thankful to Sergio Ansaloni, Paola Francia, Giulio Guerzoni, Marina Mingozzi, Fabio Poggi, Antonio Volpone for many fruitful discussions on the various aspects of integrating and releasing open government data covered in this paper.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Beneventano, D., Bergamaschi, S., Gagliardelli, L., Po, L. (2016). Driving Innovation in Youth Policies with Open Data. In: Fred, A., Dietz, J., Aveiro, D., Liu, K., Filipe, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52758-1_18
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52758-1_18
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-52757-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-52758-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)