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Overview 1.Introduction ( – What is Open Government Data?) 2.Initiatives ( – The Austrian way) 3.Conclusion 2

What is Open Government Data? 3 Politics Administration Public Open Government Data

What is Open Government Data? ctd. Features of Open Data (principles): 1.completeness 2.primary source 3.temporal closeness 4.easy access 5.machine readability 6.non-discriminating 7.open standards 8.liberal licensing 9.durability 10.non-discriminating usage costs Source [Kaltenböck M., Thurner T., (Hg.): Open Government Data Weißbuch, 2011] 4

Overview: Initiatives 1.Wien 2.Linz 3. Verein Open Knowledge Forum Österreich 5

Wien Open Data ( 6 Cagalogue: 94 datasets in 14 categories and 26 applications (half of which is mobile) (as of ) Example (Category: Freetime): Badestellen, Burgen und Schlösser, Campingplätze, Citybike, Fahrradabstellanlagen, Museen und Sammlungen,... Data format: XML, RSS, CSV, WMS, WFS, JSON License: Creative Commons Namensnennung 3.0 Österreich Lizenz (plus additions)

Linz Open Data ( 7 Cagalogue: 111 datasets in 13 categories and 10 applications (7 are mobile) (as of ) Example (Category: Bildung): Berufsbildende Pflichtschulen, Volkshochschule, Berufsbildende mittlere und höhere Schulen, Volksschulen, Sonderschulen, Hauptschulen... Data format: CSV, PDF, XML, TXT, GML, XSD License: Creative Commons Namensnennung 3.0 Österreich Lizenz (plus additions)

Verein Open Knowledge Forum Österreich ( 8 Cagalogue: 22 datasets (as of ) Example: Wörgl (Stadtgemeinde) - Haushaltsentwicklung Data format: XLS, JSON, CSV, PDF, JSON, HTML License: Varying (this is a catalogue which tries to summarize the initiatives) (plus additions)

Conclusions No governmental dataset using LOD (Vienna is considering this option in relation to LOD2) Semantic Web Company is promoting the use of Linked Data Applications are missing –see also the Apps4Linz award – 1 st 3000, 2 nd 2000, 3 rd 1000 –deadline 2 nd of April –special prize (1000 ) sponsored by Tourismusverband Linz 9

References [1] Linz: [2] Vienna: [3] Austria (in general): [4] Open Government, Data, Society: [5] E-Government Austria: 10