Workshop: Linking open data - Challenges and Solutions

Conference paper (2012)

Authors

SW Braak, van den External organisation
Y Charalabidis External organisation
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Published Date

2012

Language

English

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Abstract

ABSTRACT
Open data have been recognized as a way to advance citizen
engagement, increase economic welfare and improve policymaking
and public decision-making. The linking of all kinds of
open data sets provides potentially many benefits. Yet the number
of successful examples of combining datasets has been limited.
Challenges can be found at the political, social, use, and technical
level. In this half day workshop we discuss the challenges of open
data and relate these to the needs for policies and infrastructures
for processing data. Various ways of dealing with these challenges
will be discussed and in particular we will present an
infrastructure for processing open data. This infrastructure
harnesses open data sources and methodologies for annotating,
visualising and making open data available to scientists and
citizens. Participants are asked to actively participate in discussion
and are invited to provide feedback and suggestions for
improvement.