Most Open Government Data initiatives are centralised and unidirectional (i.e., they release data dumps in CSV or PDF format). Hence for non trivial applications reusers make copies of the government datasets to curate their local data copy. This situation is not optimal as it leads to duplication of efforts and reduces the possibility of sharing improvements. To improve the usefulness of publishing open data, several authors recommeded to use standard formats and data versioning. Here we focus on publishing versioned open linked data (i.e., in RDF format) because they allow one party to annotate data released independently by another party thus reducing the need to duplicate entire datasets. After describing a pipeline to open up legacy-databases data in RDF format, we argue that RDF is suitable to implement a scalable feedback channel, and we investigate what steps are needed to implement a distributed RDFversioning system in production.

Collaborative Open Data versioning: a pragmatic approach using Linked Data / Canova, Lorenzo; Basso, Simone; Iemma, Raimondo; Morando, Federico. - STAMPA. - (2015), pp. 171-183. (Intervento presentato al convegno CeDEM15 - Conference for E-Democracy and Open Governement tenutosi a Krems (Austria) nel 20-22 maggio 2015).

Collaborative Open Data versioning: a pragmatic approach using Linked Data

CANOVA, LORENZO;BASSO, SIMONE;IEMMA, RAIMONDO;MORANDO, FEDERICO
2015

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Most Open Government Data initiatives are centralised and unidirectional (i.e., they release data dumps in CSV or PDF format). Hence for non trivial applications reusers make copies of the government datasets to curate their local data copy. This situation is not optimal as it leads to duplication of efforts and reduces the possibility of sharing improvements. To improve the usefulness of publishing open data, several authors recommeded to use standard formats and data versioning. Here we focus on publishing versioned open linked data (i.e., in RDF format) because they allow one party to annotate data released independently by another party thus reducing the need to duplicate entire datasets. After describing a pipeline to open up legacy-databases data in RDF format, we argue that RDF is suitable to implement a scalable feedback channel, and we investigate what steps are needed to implement a distributed RDFversioning system in production.
2015
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