The attached report presents the outcome of a study on Linked Open Government Data (LOGD), a set of principles for publishing, linking and accessing open government data as a service on the Web. The study was commissioned by the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme of the European Commission to address the following research topics:
- the value of LOGD for businesses, citizens, and public administrations;
- the cost structures behind the provision of LOGD;
- the revenue streams linked to the consumption of LOGD services; and
- enablers and barriers with regard to the value creation of LODG.
The report provides a theoretical framework to analyse the LOGD ecosystem. It identifies 37 cases in which public administrations have used LOGD to make open government data available as a service on the Web. 14 cases have been selected for further analysis. The selected case studies are:
- Austria: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP);
- Germany: German National Library (DNB);
- European Union: Europeana;
- European Union: European Commission Directorate-General Health and Consumers (DG SANCO);
- European Union: European Environment Agency (EEA);
- European Union: Publications Office of the European Union (OP);
- Italy: Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale (AgID);
- United Kingdom: BBC;
- United Kingdom: Companies House;
- United Kingdom: Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA);
- United Kingdom: National Archives;
- United Kingdom: OpenCorporates;
- United Kingdom: Ordnance Survey (OS); and
- International: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Related work
- 2013-06-13 Call for case studies on Linked Open Government Data
- How Linked Data is transforming eGovernment
- 10 Rules for persistent URIs
- Li Ding, Vassilios Peristeras, Michael Hausenblas: Linked Open Government Data [Guest editors' introduction]. IEEE Intelligent Systems 27(3): 11-15 (2012)
To know more about ISA Action 1.1
- SEMIC webpage on Joinup:http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semantic-interoperability-community-semic
- ISA programme website: http://ec.europa.eu/isa/
Nature of documentation: Technical report