A classification scheme for open government data: towards linking decentralised data. (21st June 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kalampokis, Evangelos; Tambouris, Efthimios; Tarabanis, Konstantinos
• Is Part Of: International journal of Web engineering and technology. Volume 6:Number 3(2011)
• Page Start: 266
• Page End: 285
• Publication Date: 2011-06-21
• Subjects: open government data -- open data -- government data -- classification -- linked data -- web of data -- architecture -- one-stop portals -- government portals -- public sector information -- e-government -- electronic government; World Wide Web -- Periodicals; Web site development -- Periodicals; Application software -- Development -- Periodicals; 006.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-1289

Abstract

Open government data (OGD) refers to making public sector information freely available in open formats and ways that enable public access and facilitate exploitation. Lately, a large number of OGD initiatives launched worldwide aiming to implement one-stop portals acting as single points of access to governmental data. At the same time, the so-called linked data technologies emerged aiming at publishing structured data on the web in such a way that enables semantically enriching data, uniform access to data, and linking of data. In this paper, we first propose a classification scheme for OGD initiatives based on the relevant literature. We thereafter, review and analyse OGD initiatives based on the proposed scheme. We finally present an architecture and prototype implementation for the most advanced OGD class in our scheme, which enables linking decentralised data.