Authors:
Domenico Beneventano
;
Sonia Bergamaschi
;
Luca Gagliardelli
and
Laura Po
Affiliation:
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Keyword(s):
Open Government Data, Linked Open Data, Youth Policies, Emilia Romagna Region, Municipality of Modena.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Case-studies
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The Open Data philosophy is based on the idea that certain data should be made available to all citizens, in an
open form, without any copyright restrictions, patents or other mechanisms of control. Various government
have started to publish open data, first of all USA and UK in 2009, and in 2015, the Open Data Barometer
project (www.opendatabarometer.org) states that on 77 diverse states across the world, over 55 percent have
developed some form of Open Government Data initiative. We claim Public Administrations, that are the
main producers and one of the consumers of Open Data, might effectively extract important information by
integrating its own data with open data sources. This paper reports the activities carried on during a one-year
research project on Open Data for Youth Policies. The project was mainly devoted to explore the youth
situation in the municipalities and provinces of the Emilia Romagna region (Italy), in particular, to examine
data on population, educati
on and work. The project goals were: to identify interesting data sources both from
the open data community and from the private repositories of local governments of Emilia Romagna region
related to the Youth Policies; to integrate them and, to show up the result of the integration by means of a
useful navigator tool; in the end, to publish new information on the web as Linked Open Data. This paper also
reports the main issues encountered that may seriously affect the entire process of consumption, integration
till the publication of open data.
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