Re: Collecting Best Practise Process for GLD - the 10 steps to GLD / LOD

Hi Martin,

In the draft best practices note [1], please see Section 1 - summary. It
lists down 14 items. Will they suffice? A lot of members have given
comments to arrive at them.

My own experience is that the following factors are very important in
helping a city open up their data:

a) Familiarity with regulations regarding data sharing. The city
authorities may need to be educated about what can and cannot be opened.
The regulations differ at countries, state and even city levels. The aim
should be to share as much as possible without limiting it by the current
thinking of usage possible. Typically, any outcome of an initiative with
publicly funding can be shared. Anything which is personally identifiable
must be masked before sharing.
b) Having a process and tool to create data. The city's effort will be as
good as the volume and quality of data it actually makes public. They are
worried if they will make a mistake and cannot retract if things go wrong.
Their efforts are more likely to succeed if they can use a well-tested
process or set of tools that they know has worked for someone, and can thus
address common issues (versioning, URI, ...). That is why, publishing
successful case studies is so important.

The work group decided not to prescribe any specific set of tools.


[1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/bp/index.html



Regards,
--Biplav







                                                                                                                                   
  From:       Martin Kaltenböck <m.kaltenboeck@semantic-web.at>                                                                    
                                                                                                                                   
  To:         "public-gld-wg@w3.org" <public-gld-wg@w3.org>                                                                        
                                                                                                                                   
  Date:       10/06/2013 01:49 AM                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                   
  Subject:    Re: Collecting Best Practise Process for GLD - the 10 steps to GLD /  LOD                                            
                                                                                                                                   





Dear all

a short addendum to my email below - I think I forgot to mention an
important point - that I am looking for:

The '10 steps' to LOD to become the digital infrastructure for a
governmental department / city , ...

So what would be the most important steps to build such a data
infrastructure using LOD principles et al for city X with 150k inhabitants?

Looking forward to your feedback, best! Martin

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Am 09.06.2013 um 17:39 schrieb Martin Kaltenböck
<m.kaltenboeck@semantic-web.at>:

> Dear all
>
> I had interesting discussions last week with Austrian public servants
about 'best practise for a process / for a linked open data strategy in
public administration'
> and thereby my question to all of you comes up if there is some
information available in the GLD working group and / or any other feedback
by
> the group or tipps or ideas on that....many thanks for feedback on this
(see more below).
>
> Fore sure this is also around best practise of 'publishing linked open
data' (but for this issue lots of good best practise infos seem to be
available)
>
> BUT: the question is more around:
>
> When a department of public administration starts to publish linked open
data (a department, a city, a region or the national gov -
> no matter if open data is already in place or not):
>
> - what are the most important issues to keep in mind (license, schema
selection, technologies, URI concept, ....)?
> - what are the most important known bottelnecks and / or pitfalls?
> - what is important by selecting the respective data sets (is it
important to plan around what data to publish first) - e.g.: publish 'basic
data sets'
> first like spatial data, organisations as LOD et al - so that data sets
that are published later on can be linked to this basic data sets
> - what comes next - after the 'pure publishing'
> - what else comes to your mind...?
>
> Remark: Imagine a small city with 150k inhabitants invites you to give
them guidance / help for their LOD strategy - asks you for 'the 10 most
important
> steps to LOD' for their city - what would you tell them?
>
> Output of this collection could be a 'best practise guide / 10 steps to
LOD in public administration'...maybe something like this already
> exists - but I am not aware of it - so many thanks for feedback - any
ideas are very welcome - best regards from Vienna - martin
>
>
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