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Pieter van Everdingen: Platform Linked Data Netherlands, Innovation via meaningful connections
Platform Linked Data Netherlands (PLDN) is an open network community of linked data experts in the Netherlands, who would like to share their knowledge and experiences from the linked data projects they are involved in with everyone who has an interest in linked data and those that would like to get started with their own linked data activities. It has developed into a vibrant community with several hundred active members and a few thousand interested parties.
PLDN activities concentrate around organising networking events, facilitating activities for working groups and releasing publications on linked data topics, like the Gems of Linked Data Applications book (available in Dutch), which contains successful examples of linked data initiatives from our PLDN network that we would like to share with a larger audience. We are also very proud of a very different deliverable that we have created: Play-LOD, which is a card board game that can be used to explain the basic concepts of linked data in an easy to understand and playful way. And to make community members more hands-on with linked data, we stimulate them to experiment with linked data via our free to use PLDN lab environment for which we also organised a number of introduction courses. And we work with organisations in our network to start up new activities and new promising linked data initiatives that can possibly be financed or co-financed from innovation budgets and grants within the EU and the Netherlands. PLDN is completely open for any work co-operation that would lead to further adoption of linked data and more best practices.
Raf Buyle and Veronique Volders: Semantics at your fingertips - How Belgian municipalities create Linked Open data without additional effort
Flanders is building an open ecosystem based on Open Standards and Linked Data. There are about 300 local governments in Flanders, of which over 65% is publishing their local legislation as reusable machine-readable information.
With the use (and reuse) of templates, standards and digitalization of the legal drafting process, linked data allows to reuse more easily across local governments and other stakeholders, predict the impact of decisions before they are made and therefore take optimal decisions, while making information on legislation easily accessible and reusable to anyone.
In this session, we share how we have crossed the chasm: how we introduced our initiative to innovators and early adopters, how we onboarded the early majority. Also, we will share which new Linked Data initiatives Flanders is initiating in the context of the COVID-19 resilience.
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Jakub Klímek: Guaranteed and semantically interoperable public government data published and shared as Linked Open Data
In 2021, legislation was adopted in Czechia, introducing the obligation of public administration institutions to provide their public data as open data and, more importantly, to consume the open data whenever it is necessary to access the public data of another institution. Consequently, the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (MOI-CZ) introduced the so-called Public Data Space (PDS) and is currently working on the necessary infrastructure. It will consist of public data published as open data with additional guarantees ensuring the FAIR principles. The data in PDS will be cataloged in the National Open Data Catalog, along with all the other open data. In addition, the data providers will guarantee the formal correctness and availability of the data to the other institutions. To ensure the interoperability of the shared data, formal open standards (FOSes), as defined in EU DIRECTIVE 2019/1024, will be issued by MOI-CZ for the relevant data domains. A FOS prescribes the allowed data formats and data structures. At its core, it prescribes an RDF representation adhering to the principles of Linked Open Data. Other formats, such as JSON or CSV, can also be introduced if necessary, maintaining transformability to RDF through JSON-LD and CSV on the Web. The semantic interoperability in PDS will be achieved by mapping the data structures defined in FOSes to the public administration ontology, which we call the semantic government vocabulary (SGoV). SGoV defines important domain concepts, relationships between them, semantic mappings among concepts from different domains, and also the ISA Core Vocabularies. The FOSes themselves, including data structure definitions, their expression in different data formats, transformations between the formats, mapping to SGoV, and also documentation, will be generated from SGoV semi-automatically. A set of tools for the management of SGoV will be demonstrated in the talk. We will conclude with the possibility of extending our approach to the whole EU.
The market for Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) software boomed in the last 18 months. As in many other digital areas of accelerated growth, the pandemic served as a catalyst, but the trend was evident before that. And unlike the previous generation of PKM tools, the most successful ones in this wave manage the data as knowledge graphs. Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKG) fundamentally change the way we manage our information, currently trapped in emails, documents, presentations, notebooks and social networks. Many PKG users report huge boost in both productivity and creativity.
This webinar will explore various PKG use cases from intelligent note-taking and project management to learning and research, what kind of capabilities that serve these use cases stabilize in this ecosystem and what could be the impact of PKG on collaborative knowledge management and the adoption of enterprise knowledge graphs.
It seems the role of Personal Knowledge Graphs will only grow in the coming years but the way graphs and applications interact is going to change, transforming the whole ecosystem.
By Ivo Velitchkov
The ENDORSE 2021 conference proceedings are now online. You can view them on the conference website or download a free copy here.
Our sincere thanks go to the conference programme committee and all speakers and authors, as well as to all DIGIT (ISA²) professionals and to the Publication Office’s staff who made it possible to run ENDORSE 2021 and to share with you presentations, papers, videos and proceedings.
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