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Freedom of Information Act Wikifoiawiki.org.uk
Iain R. LearmonthJohnny McKenzie
Tom Jones
22nd June 2014Code the City Aberdeen 2014
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What did exist?
Aberdeen City Council publish a FOI disclosure log but it is not searchableand rather difficult to navigate.
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Improvements needed
Make searchable
Allow crowdsourced tagging
Aggregate disclosures from multiple sources
Allow re-use of the data
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Identifying data
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Building schemas
Web Ontology Language (OWL)
MySQL
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Documenting the schema
Using LODE1:
1http://www.essepuntato.it/lodePresenter: Iain R. Learmonth Freedom of Information Act Wiki 22nd June 2014 6 / 9
Publishing linked data
Using D2R Server2:
map:InformationRequests a d2rq:ClassMap;
d2rq:dataStorage map:database;
d2rq:uriPattern "request/@@request.publicBodyId@@/@@request.requestId|urlify@@";
d2rq:class foia:InformationRequest;
.
2http://d2rq.org/d2r-serverPresenter: Iain R. Learmonth Freedom of Information Act Wiki 22nd June 2014 7 / 9
An Example Frontend
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irl@fsfe.org
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