In November 2015 the European Commission officially lunched the European Data Portal http://www.europeandataportal.eu . The mission of the portal is to become the catalogue of all European public data providing them in all official languages of the European Union. The portal is harvesting metadata from heterogeneous open data portals of 28 EU and other 11 European countries. It lists over 580 000 datasets and it is the biggest Open Data portal worldwide. From the techincal perspective, it is the first official Open Data portal implementing the new DCAT Application Profile specification. The portal is the place to find European public data and it is a basis for other innovative services. One of them is Policy Compass https://policycompass.eu. It brings together open public data, social media, e-participation platforms, causal models, and argumentation technology for constructing, sharing, visualizing and debating progress metrics and impacts of policies. Both portals are Open Source. They provide rich APIs and may become a data source for other applications.

1. Yury Glikman, 21 September 2016
BEYOND OW2:
NEW EUROPEAN OPEN DATA PORTALS FOR END-USERS AND DEVELOPERS
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2. THE BENEFITS OF OPEN DATA ARE DIVERSE AND RANGE FROM IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATIONS, ECONONIC GROWTH IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO WIDER SOCIAL WELLFARE
The European Data Portal will be a central hub providing access to all the
information (metadata) about the data made accessible throughout Europe
Improving
Efficiency of
Public Services
Improving
Quality
Developing
Innovative
Services
Creating
New
Business
Models Improving
Transparency &
Accountability
Enhance
Participation
Performance
Economy
Social

3. www.europeandataportal.eu

4. WHAT DO WE DO?
1. We offer metadata in 15 languages (for now), we visualise,
we offer quality checks for over 600K datasets
2. We train a suite of learning experiences in the field of
Open Data from publishing to the re-using Open Data
3. We showcase Open Data events, Open Data news, Open
Data best practices, Open Data reports, etc
4. We collect by inviting stakeholders to share their stories,
their feedback, their portals
5. We convene: meetings, webinars, events to discuss open
data best practices, challenges and next steps
6. We share our source code and promote open source and
re-use of components and standards
“We harvest open data made available by all public
administrations across Europe.
Our focus is data from the Member States”
34 countries, 70 catalogues harvested, visualisations, maps, …
THE EUROPEAN DATA PORTAL

5. MULTIPLE LEARNING EXPERIENCES BROUGHT ONLINE
A Goldbook for data providers
Open Data in a Nutshell
How to build an Open Data Strategy
Technical preparation &
implementation
Putting in place an Open Data lifecycle
Ensuring and monitoring success
Step 1: Introduction
to Open Data
Step 2: Open Data
Implementation
Step 3: Technical
deep dive
Step 4: Where next
with Open Data?
eLearning Modules Library
Economic analysis
Landscaping report
Use cases
Further training
material
Country specific
reports
Training Companion
Practicalities to run
own Open Data
workshops
Online learning is complemented by tailored support to countries

6. KEY FEATURES
 Harvesting of more than 70 Open Data portals
 Support of the DCAT-AP standard
 Translation of important meta data into 15 (later in 24)
languages
 CKAN as a base for the meta data catalogue
 Integrated tool for assessing metadata quality
 Open Data Licensing Assistant
 Making meta data publicly available via CKAN REST-
API and SPARQL endpoint
 Open Source solution

7. www.policycompass.eu
Grant Agreement
612133

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- Difficulty of objectively assessing the impact
of government policies
- Political discussions about policies impacts
are highly emotional and often are not based
on any factual data
- Poor use of available open data resources in
the internet
- Different perception by people about a
suitable metric for measuring progress
THE PROBLEM AND THE OPPORTUNITY
The Problem The Opportunity: learning from data
ONLINE DELIBERATION
AND ARGUMENT MAPPING
BUILDING
CAUSAL MODELS
DEFINING OWN
PROGRESS METRICS

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POLICY COMPASS CONTENT
Metrics
Define and calculate own metrics
on the basis of datasets
Causal Models
Model policy impacts and interrelations
Deliberation
Discuss impacts of policies and
define argumentation models
Visualisations
Visualise and compare datasets
Events
Annotate visualisations by policy
impacts influencing events
Datasets
Upload or import Open Data

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 Open Data can be submitted through a “Wizard“
 Uploaded data has to be transformed in „Policy-Compass-
Format“ and become accessible as Datesets
 Support of popular formats: CSV, XLS, XLSX
 Direct search and import from:
 European Data Portal
 Eurostat
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UPLOADING DATASETS

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 Historical events, political decisions, laws, etc. are the
second key element of Policy Compass
 Events can be registered manually
 Search and import of events from external sources:
 Wikipedia
 DBpedia
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REGISTERING EVENTS

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 Datesets can be presented as Visualisations
 There are several types of charts supported: line charts,
on a map, Pie and Bar charts
 Rich set of configuration options
 Events can be added in Visualisations
 Identifing relations between Data and Events:
Evaluation of the performance of politics
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VISUALISING DATA

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 Users can define own complex Metrics to measure
impacts of policies, e.g. the Human Development Index
 Metrics can be defined as mathematic formulas to be
applied to Datasets
 Same Metrics can be applied to different Datasets (for
different time periods or different locations)
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DEFINING METRICS

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 Relations between concepts can be modelled in a
graphical editor
 Such Causal Models can predict an impact of changing
one or several concepts values in the model for the rest of
the system
 Modelling and prediction is based on the theory of „Fuzzy
Cognitive Maps“
 The weights of relations between concepts can be
calculated based on the available datasets for the
concepts.
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DEFINING CAUSAL MODELS

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 Policy Compass uses open source e-Participation
software Adhocracy as a deliberation component
 The outcomes of the deliberation can be modeled on the
basis of the Carneades Argumentation Framework
summarising the arguments of a debate in an argument
graph
 Carneades helps to obtain clear explanations, using
argument graphs, of the different effects of alternative
policies in particular cases
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DELIBERATING AND ARGUMENTATION MODELLING

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Fraunhofer FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin, Germany
www.fokus.fraunhofer.de
Dr. Yury Glikman
yury.glikman@fokus.fraunhofer.de
Tel. +49 (0)30 3463-7718
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