Brussels, 28 September 2010

Euroalert.net reports extensively about the session that took place at the ICT2010 event in Brussels on Linked Open Government Data:

Around 150 experts were present at the networking session on Governmental Linked Data with the aim to establish a forum for networking and exchanging ideas with regard to publishing and linking government data.

The main conclusions of the networking session:

• difficulties to reuse public data go far beyond the technical ones
• make raw data available first, and improve them later with Linked Data technologies
• transparency and openness is not achieved only by releasing data, Governments must also be aware that publication has to be done in an appropriate way.
• publishing of data produced by governments is a crucial step towards more openness, transparency and citizen involvement.
• the Linked Data paradigm can serve as a powerful enabler for integrating data published by local, regional, national and European public administrations

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