Linking Government Data
Linking Government Data provides a practical approach to addressing common information management issues. The approaches taken are based on international standards of the World Wide Web Consortium. Linking Government Data gives both the costs and benefits
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Linking Government Data
Editor David Wood 3 Round Stones Inc. Fredericksburg, VA USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-1766-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-1767-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1767-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011941199 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.
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“Information on anything that’s inspected, spent, enforced, or licensed. That’s what I want, and that’s what the public wants.” Jennifer LaFleur, Director of Computer-Assisted Reporting, ProPublica, defining desired data from the U.S. Government, March 18, 2011
Preface
The Linked Open Data Project started just four years ago in 2007. In that short time Linked Data has grown into an almost mainstream activity for many governments around the world. As of this writing, the US Government’s open data site listed twenty one countries whose governments publish open data regarding the operations of their public sector, with roughly one third of them publishing Linked Data using the data standards of the World Wide Web Consortium1 . Those numbers show every sign of increasing in the immediate future. The World Wide Web of 2011 is a mature and trusted information system, allowing its broad adoption even by laggards. As an information system owned by no one and yet open to vendors, governments and private citizens, the Web has become a natural place to publish information for public dissemination. The wide availability of Web clients, be they on mobile phones, laptop or desktop computers, tablets or game consoles, and the provision of public access services (especially by libraries) has made publication on the Web a preferred way for governments to empower their citizenry, or at least pretend to do so. The Web is mature, and yet ever changing. The use of the Web to facilitate clean and uncorrupt government is likewise both viable now and capable of so much more in the future. It is our privilege to be a part of that change. We hope the information presented in this book can assist readers to join us. The uptake of open data publication in general and Linked Data approaches in specific has mirrored interest by the public in governmental transparency. Some activists, such
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