Your website is a part of a world-wide knowledge graph

Presentation for the Belgian federal government organizations

In order for complex systems to work well, small data needs to be published in a way that it can be found, in a way it is accessible, interoperable and reusable. However, how do you decide for yourself what data to maintain? And how do you go about maintaining other people’s data?

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1. Your website is a part of a global database Pieter Colpaert Ghent University – IDLab – imec
2. https://pietercolpaert.be Datasets to calculate “the best way home” are simple and small train time schedules (SNCB), roads and addresses, points of interests (KBO/BCE), traffic casualties (statbel), weather information (KMI/IRM) …
3. https://pietercolpaert.be And you can find them on websites
4. https://pietercolpaert.be And you can find them on websites
5. https://pietercolpaert.be
6. https://pietercolpaert.be What content are you maintaining?
7. https://pietercolpaert.be What dataset are you maintaining?
8. Your website Your database
9. Your website Someone else’s website Someone else’s website Someone else’s website Someone else’s website Someone else’s website
11. https://pietercolpaert.be How do you decide what content to put on your website and what content to link?
12. https://pietercolpaert.be How do you decide what data to put on your website and what data to link?
13. Case 1 Local Decision as Linked Open Data
15. Your local government website Your database Computer program I want to get information about hindrance
16. Your local government website Computer program I want to get information about hindrance Your local government website Your local government website Your local government website Your local government website
17. Linked Data in the decision making software https://data.vlaanderen.be/ns#Vocabularia Responsibility of local gov to communicate about hindrance Mobility policy that has been set Identifying a detour in a local decision
18. Closed street for event X Subsidy for renovation in this neighbourhood Bicycle street from 1st March 2019
19. How can they create these annotated decisions? Existing software that is conform the (OSLO) standard With the open-source application Gelinkt Notuleren 2 1
21. Case 2: Personal data and citizen profiles
22. Your website Your database + user data
23. Your website Your database A personal data space
24. Your local government website Your local government website Your local government website Your local government website Your local government website A personal data space
25. My citizen profile: one personal digest of your government services
26. No wrong door: overview of all your data everywhere
27. So… A greater website? 1. Stick to your core tasks 2. Use domain models 3. Decentralized user profiles with solid.mit.edu Thank you! https://pietercolpaert.be