- From: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:26:26 +0100
- To: public-egov-ig@w3.org
All, I noticed that there were some discussions lately on publishing open governmental data, which due to the lack of time unfortunately I was not able to contribute to. Since this is my first post to the IG I want to briefly introduce myself: I'm heading the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW <http://aksw.org>) at Uni Leipzig in Germany. With AKSW we develop pragmatic solutions to semantic Web information integration problems. AKSW projects include the Wikipedia knowledge extraction DBpedia (<http://DBpedia.org>), the LOD version of OpenStreetMap LinkedGeoData (<http://LinkedGeoData.org>) and the machine-learning framework (<http://DL-Learner.org>). Two of our tools I think are particularly useful for easily publishing governmental data as RDF and LinkedData: *OntoWiki* (<http://OntoWiki.net>) is originally a tool for the collaborative creation and maintenance of RDF and OWL knowledge bases, but includes sophisticated navigation, browsing and search features as well. You can load any RDF file into OntoWiki and it will take care of generating a comprehensive user interface for navigation, browsing, search, querying and also serves the data machine-readably as LinkedData, SPARQL, JSON ... As a *demo*, how OntoWiki can be used for governmental data we set up <http://gov-data.aksw.org>, where we currently loaded the financial transparency data from the EU (disclaimer: this is just as simple prototype, which was developed in a few hours - there are lots of things to improve and extend). A second tool we develop, which could be very beneficial for publishing governmental data is *Triplify* (<http://triplify.org>). Triplify brings existing relational databases to the Linked Data Web, with minimal effort. Creating a Triplify configuration for a relational database schema is easy and takes not much time. As a result Triplify will take care of publishing your data as LinkedData, RDF and JSON (no SPARQL support yet). You can also use Triplify as an RDF-from-relational-DB extraction tool and load the output into OntoWiki for example to provide a nice GUI to people. Let me know if you have any questions on our tools, which are btw. all *open-source* and have a strong maintainer and developer communities. Best, Sören -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Sören Auer, AKSW/Computer Science Dept., University of Leipzig http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer, Skype: soerenauer
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