open data: the italian landscape

OPEN GOVERNMENT DATATHE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE

ODG Camp 2010, 18-19 Nov, London

Michele Barbera, Lorenzo Benussi, Stefano Costa, Federico Morando

<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>

This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Italy License

giovedì 18 novembre 2010

THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE•DATA P R O J E C T S

•R E S E A R C H P R O J E C T S

•C O M M U N I T I E S

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OPEN CAMERA

LICENSEno license!

FEATURESPart of a larger campaign of the Radical Party which

aims at creating a public register of public representatives

PEOPLE AND MONEY4 activists of the Radical Party

ABOUTData about the expenses of the Chamber of Deputies.

The Radical Party obtained data from the Chamber of Deputies a s p a r t o f i t s e l e c t o r a l programme, transformed it into open formats and published it on the Web.

HTTP://SERVIZI.RADICALPARTY.ORG/FRESHINSTALL/CAMERASPESE/TUTTEgiovedì 18 novembre 2010

http://servizi.radicalparty.org/freshinstall/cameraspese/tutte



DATI.PIEMONTE.IT

LICENSECC0, CC-BY for the Website

FEATURESExplicit and detailed guidelines. First and only local PA

PEOPLE AND MONEYPiedmontese Consortium for Informatic

Services,Top-IX public/private consortium and the NEXA research Center for Internet &

Society

ABOUTMore than 45 datasets (CSV format).From data about students and schools to data about shops and commerce, going through turistic flows and related facilities;

2300 downloads, 13.500 unique visitors in the first 6 monthsThe project is led by the Regional Government of Piedmont.

HTTP://DATI.PIEMONTE.ITgiovedì 18 novembre 2010




MIA PA

LICENSEIODL

FEATURESuses the recently drafted Italian Open Data License

(beta version)

PEOPLE AND MONEYMinistry of Public Administration and

Innovation and private companies

ABOUTIt's a project to geo-localize publ ic ser v ices and share information and evaluations about them.

Available data: data about public services (especially front desks): location, opening hours, etc.

HTTP://SAPERI.FORUMPA.IT/STORY/50925/E-NATA-MIAPA-IL-MINISTRO-BRUNETTA-PRESENTA-LA-PA-SU-MOBNOTES

1

25 ottobre 2010


http://saperi.forumpa.it/story/50925/e-nata-miapa-il-ministro-brunetta-presenta-la-pa-su-mobnotes

http://saperi.forumpa.it/story/50925/e-nata-miapa-il-ministro-brunetta-presenta-la-pa-su-mobnotes

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OPEN STREET MAPITALY

LICENSEopen license, ODbL

FEATURESmore than 200 active contributors (400 km mapped

each day on average), active since 2007

PEOPLE AND MONEYvolunteer work, based on the OSM Foundation

infrastructure (developers, sysadmin)

ABOUTCreates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants t h e m . O S M i n I t a l y w a s kickstarted in late 2007 and is o n e o f t h e m o s t a c t i v e communities in Europe.

HTTP://WIKI.OSM.ORGgiovedì 18 novembre 2010




LINKED OPEN CAMERA

LICENSECC-BY-2.5-IT

FEATURESFocused on Linked Open Data & Semantic Web.

Soon to be extended to other national & local bottom-up gov Linked Open datasets

PEOPLE AND MONEY3 active volounteers + resources and consultancy

donated by Net7 srl

ABOUTCleaned up, enriched, Linked and RDFized data provided by Open Camera.

Tota l l y i ndependent f rom OpenCamera.

Offers acces to data via: RDF dump, SPARQL endpoint and a faceted browsing UI.

HTTP://WWW.LINKEDOPENCAMERA.ITgiovedì 18 novembre 2010




OPENPOLIS - OPENPARLAMENTO

LICENSECC-BY-3.0-Unported

FEATURESUsers can and are encouraged to contribute data.

There is no API. Currently experimenting with Linked Data, which will be released with a non-commercial

license.

PEOPLE AND MONEY6 person staff paid by Depp.it. Some Donations.

ABOUTTwo Web apps that aim to increase access to public data about parliament activity.

Data is scraped from official sources, manually verified and then published in a mysql + apache + php + solr website.

HTTP://WWW.OPENPOLIS.ITgiovedì 18 novembre 2010



LICENSE"The use of the public ENS will be free of charge for a reasonable and fair use. Special needs (beyond fair use) will be regulated by SLAs between the Truestee

and third parties".

MONEYtotal cost of 7.4M eur (5,1M eur funded by the EU

Commission, FP7)

ABOUTOKKAM's "Entity Name System" aims to be the DNS of the semantic web: a service which can map many entity names (e.g. multiple linked data URIs for a single entity) into a single web name for fdata integration and mashup.

WHOService managed by the OKKAM Trust. Trustee is the Okkam S.r.l., a l imited l iabil ity company, incorporated under the Laws of Italy.

HTTP://WWW.OKKAM.ORG

R E S E A R C H : : T E C H - 1




LICENSEOSI approved (most probably BSD-like)

MONEYapprox 1M eur (700k Eu Commission FP7, 300k

partner companies).

ABOUTSEMLIB aims at developing two OSS software components that can be easily integrated in digital r e p o s i t o r i e s : a S e m a n t i c Annotation system for linking web pages and multimedia objects with the LOD cloud and a Semant ic Recommender System based on LOD-enriched data-sources. Starts Jan 2011.

WHO4 compan i e s , 2 r e s e a r ch organizations. Italian par tners: Ne t 7 SRL ( coo rd i n a t o r ) , Liberologico SRL, Università Politecnica delle Marche

CONTACT: [email protected]

SEMLIBSEMANTIC WEB TOOLS FOR

DIGITAL LIBRARIES

R E S E A R C H : : T E C H - 2


mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

FEATURESbold positions about commercial re-use and

downstream restrictions;as thematic network, it's focused on sharing views,

building consensus and facilitating exchanges

MONEYapprox about 500.000 € (EU funding)

ABOUTLAPSI is a thematic network f u nded by t h e Eu ropean Commission. The project intends to become the main European point of reference for high-level policy discussions and strategic action on all legal issues related to the access and the re-use of Public Sector Information.

WHOCoordinated by the NEXA Center for Internet & Society (IT); 20 international partners: universities and research centers and other stakeholders: e.g. the S l o v e n i a n I n f o r m a t i o n Commissioner

HTTP://WWW.LAPSI-PROJECT.EU/

LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION

LAPSI

R E S E A R C H : : L E G A L - 3


http://www.lapsi-project.eu/

http://www.lapsi-project.eu/

R E S E A R C H : : L E G A L - 4

FEATURESMain focus is on the production of research

(reviews, articles and papers)Working on an Open Data Manual targeting public administrations (in particular regional governments)

MONEYapprox 600.000 € (Piedmont Region funding)

ABOUTEVPSI is a multidisciplinar y research project studying public sector information in a regional perspective and from the point of view of legal, economic and technological analysis.

WHOUniversity of Turin, Politecnico di Torino, Fondazione Rosselli

HTTP://WWW.EVPSI.ORG/

EXTRACTING VALUE FROM PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND

REGIONAL POLICIES

EVPSI


http://www.evpsi.org/

http://www.evpsi.org/

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CKANITALIA

FEATURESPart of a larger international community.

79 datasets listed

PEOPLE AND MONEYboth volunteer and paid work, on OKF infrastructure

< 10 contributors

ABOUTCKAN Italia was started in June 2010 with a mass import of ~70 datasets of public interest, all available under restrictive license terms. The first aim is to have a clear picture of public data and act as a hub for all open data initiatives in Italy.

GOALbridging the Italian community and the international Open Data wo r l d ( l i k e he r e t oday ) , e n c o u r a g i n g a p p l i c a t i o n developers and citizens to claim for and reuse open data

HTTP://IT.CKAN.NETgiovedì 18 novembre 2010




DATAGOV.IT

FEATURESfinal version of the Open Government Manifesto to

be presented the 30th of November

PEOPLE AND MONEYparticipants are all volounteers, but many of them are

working as consultants for public bodies

ABOUTDataGov.it is a group of people involved in various ways in projects aiming at creating a more dynamic and innovative public administration

GOALThe first (and currently main) objective of this project is the p r o d u c t i o n o f a n O p e n Government Manifesto and the related activities, from consensus building to dissemination and awareness

HTTP://WWW.DATAGOV.ITgiovedì 18 novembre 2010




SPAGHETTI OPEN DATA

PEOPLE AND MONEYvolunteer work: citizens, civil servants, civic hackers,

data entrepreneurs66 members, 14 active contributors

ABOUTSpaghetti Open Data is a group of Italian citizens concerned with the release of public data in open format, for easy reuse and remix (open data).

GOALcreating a community around open data and software tools to explore them, raising awareness with public presentations and demos.(36 datasets l i s ted, par t ly imported to CKAN)

HTTP://WWW.SPAGHETTIOPENDATA.ORG/ giovedì 18 novembre 2010



S M E

DEPP.ITServices and Producs for analysis of Openpolis data. Mostly targeted to press agencies, companies and lobbysts.

NETSEVEN.ITResearch, consulting and OSS products for publishing, consuming and integrating Linked Open Data. Focus on Semantic Web technologies.

VISUP.ITData visualisation and Infographics. Focus on Open Data Visualisation.


ODG IN ITALY IS STILL IN ITS INFANCY...

BUT IT WILL(HOPEFULLY)

GROW QUICKLY


AUTHORSMichele Barbera, Lorenzo Benussi, Stefano Costa, Federico Morando

IMAGESFlickr, Tuscany dunes - Val D'Orcia, Carlo_itFlickr, Baby pose, mochida1970(Highly Honored Photographer)

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