Keynote talk at 2011 Semantic Technology and Business conference - Washington DC, November 30, 2011. This updates my earlier slideshare talk on linked open govt data - new slides from slide 17 on.
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Linked Open Govt Data - Sem Tech East
1. Linking Open Government Data http://logd.tw.rpi.edu Jim Hendler Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science Assistant Dean of Information Technology and Web Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler @jahendler (twitter)
3. Government Data Sharing January 1, 2009 “ Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.” --- President Obama Putting Govt Data online- Data.gov.uk beta May 21, 2009 January 19, 2010 data.gov.uk online May 21, 2010 data.gov online data.gov relaunch with semantic web featured June30,2009 December 8, 2009 “ Open Government Directive ” released 2009 2010 … 57 Data Sets ~6000 Data Set ~2000 Data Sets >305,000 Data Sets
4. Important to the citizens: eg. Education Data.gov.uk RPI NYS demos
10. Adding some Web magic Web Analytics Social Data Networks External Links
11. Linking GDP of the US and China GDP of China (Billion Chinese Yuan ) GDP of the US (Billion Dollar) [Temporal Mashup] bea.gov + federalreserve.gov +stats.gov.cn
12. Linking GDP of the US and China GDP of China (Billion Chinese Yuan ) GDP of the US (Billion Dollar) [Temporal Mashup] bea.gov + federalreserve.gov +stats.gov.cn This mashup was built in less than 4 hours – including conversion of data, web interface, and visualization!
13. Govt systems can use linked data web for context Datasets: acres burned, and agency budgets Dbpedia: wikipedia descriptions of major US fires
19. Government Data in the linked open data cloud http://linkeddata.org/ Government Data is currently over ½ the cloud in size (~17B triples), 10s of thousands of links to other data (within and without)