Austria’s Open Data Community at Work
Source: Gov-LOD Austria Initiative - gov.opendata.at:Portal
Gov-LOD (Linked Open Data) Austria initiative gov.opendata.at Portal
Vienna: 3 April 2010
The Austrian open data community’s online wiki portal is a place to ‘join in’ or to learn more about their work.
The wiki portal is already full of resources including very up to date information from Austria, Europe and international sources with links and discussion plus mailing lists and details about upcoming events in Austria and elsewhere.
The Wiki’s intro page comments (approximate English translation below) (Austrian text online):
“Our common goal is similar to that in the U.S., UK, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Finland, etc. public (non-personal) data (micro-census, Census, various data NPOs, NGOs, etc.) in a central repository in human and machine readable (Semantic Web / RDF make) available. The initiative should by FIT-IT/FFG/FWF / ... Appropriations financed, in longer term cooperation with the public. Hand and various federal agencies and entities will be. The project should also be consistent with current federal eGov initiatives (e.g. Platform Digital Austria ) so that all pull together.
We want to provide a better and more universal access to public (non-personal) data, mashups and novel user interfaces, and to facilitate the availability of the data for research purposes by semantic data (the reading of abbreviations in x various spreadsheets should no longer part of everyday life). Where possible, these data should be linked as Open Data (LOD, see also statement published by Tim Berners-Lee to Government Linked Open Data).
It is not about opening up of private citizens' data!”
Results of first open data meeting held during January 2010 are online.
An upcoming meeting is taking place on the 8th April 2010, hosted by the Austrian Semantic Web Community focused on resources to build on open government data.
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Best Practices / Use Cases Project
Work is underway collecting good practices or cases of use from existing open government data projects; for example, see documentation already collected on published online or follow this Tweet: RT @robertharm Wanted! UseCases which show the power of OpenGovData http://bit.ly/9G3VLb #opendata #opengov /via @ZukunftsWeb @punktnet
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