Yury Glikman, 21 September 2016

BEYOND OW2:NEW EUROPEAN OPEN DATA PORTALS FOR END-USERS AND DEVELOPERS

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THE BENEFITS OF OPEN DATA ARE DIVERSE AND RANGE FROM IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC

ADMINISTRATIONS, ECONONIC GROWTH IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO WIDER SOCIAL WELLFARE

The European Data Portal will be a central hub providing access to all the

information (metadata) about the data made accessible throughout Europe

ImprovingEfficiency of

Public Services

Improving Quality

Developing Innovative

Services

Creating New

BusinessModels Improving

Transparency & Accountability

Enhance ParticipationPerformance

Economy

Social

www.europeandataportal.eu

WHAT DO WE DO?

1. We offer metadata in 15 languages (for now), we visualise,

we offer quality checks for over 600K datasets

2. We train a suite of learning experiences in the field of

Open Data from publishing to the re-using Open Data

3. We showcase Open Data events, Open Data news, Open

Data best practices, Open Data reports, etc

4. We collect by inviting stakeholders to share their stories,

their feedback, their portals

5. We convene: meetings, webinars, events to discuss open

data best practices, challenges and next steps

6. We share our source code and promote open source and

re-use of components and standards

“We harvest open data made available by all public administrations across Europe.

Our focus is data from the Member States”

34 countries, 70 catalogues harvested, visualisations, maps, …

THE EUROPEAN DATA PORTAL

MULTIPLE LEARNING EXPERIENCES BROUGHT ONLINE

A Goldbook for data providers

Open Data in a Nutshell

How to build an Open Data Strategy

Technical preparation & implementation

Putting in place an Open Data lifecycle

Ensuring and monitoring success

Step 1: Introduction to Open Data

Step 2: Open Data Implementation

Step 3: Technical deep dive

Step 4: Where next with Open Data?

eLearning Modules Library

Economic analysis

Landscaping report

Use cases

Further training material

Country specific reports

Training Companion

Practicalities to run own Open Data workshops

Online learning is complemented by tailored support to countries

KEY FEATURES

Harvesting of more than 70 Open Data portals

Support of the DCAT-AP standard

Translation of important meta data into 15 (later in 24)

languages

CKAN as a base for the meta data catalogue

Integrated tool for assessing metadata quality

Open Data Licensing Assistant

Making meta data publicly available via CKAN REST-

API and SPARQL endpoint

Open Source solution

www.policycompass.eu

Grant Agreement

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- Difficulty of objectively assessing the impact

of government policies

- Political discussions about policies impacts

are highly emotional and often are not based

on any factual data

- Poor use of available open data resources in

the internet

- Different perception by people about a

suitable metric for measuring progress

THE PROBLEM AND THE OPPORTUNITY

The Problem The Opportunity: learning from data

ONLINE DELIBERATION

AND ARGUMENT MAPPING

BUILDING

CAUSAL MODELS

DEFINING OWN

PROGRESS METRICS

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POLICY COMPASS CONTENT

MetricsDefine and calculate own metrics

on the basis of datasets

Causal ModelsModel policy impacts and interrelations

DeliberationDiscuss impacts of policies and

define argumentation models

VisualisationsVisualise and compare datasets

EventsAnnotate visualisations by policy

impacts influencing events

DatasetsUpload or import Open Data

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Open Data can be submitted through a “Wizard“

Uploaded data has to be transformed in „Policy-Compass-

Format“ and become accessible as Datesets

Support of popular formats: CSV, XLS, XLSX

Direct search and import from:

European Data Portal

Eurostat

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UPLOADING DATASETS

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Historical events, political decisions, laws, etc. are the

second key element of Policy Compass

Events can be registered manually

Search and import of events from external sources:

Wikipedia

DBpedia

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REGISTERING EVENTS

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Datesets can be presented as Visualisations

There are several types of charts supported: line charts,

on a map, Pie and Bar charts

Rich set of configuration options

Events can be added in Visualisations

Identifing relations between Data and Events:

Evaluation of the performance of politics

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VISUALISING DATA

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Users can define own complex Metrics to measure

impacts of policies, e.g. the Human Development Index

Metrics can be defined as mathematic formulas to be

applied to Datasets

Same Metrics can be applied to different Datasets (for

different time periods or different locations)

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DEFINING METRICS

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Relations between concepts can be modelled in a

graphical editor

Such Causal Models can predict an impact of changing

one or several concepts values in the model for the rest of

the system

Modelling and prediction is based on the theory of „Fuzzy

Cognitive Maps“

The weights of relations between concepts can be

calculated based on the available datasets for the

concepts.

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DEFINING CAUSAL MODELS

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Policy Compass uses open source e-Participation

software Adhocracy as a deliberation component

The outcomes of the deliberation can be modeled on the

basis of the Carneades Argumentation Framework

summarising the arguments of a debate in an argument

graph

Carneades helps to obtain clear explanations, using

argument graphs, of the different effects of alternative

policies in particular cases

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DELIBERATING AND ARGUMENTATION MODELLING

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Fraunhofer FOKUS

Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31

10589 Berlin, Germany

www.fokus.fraunhofer.de

Dr. Yury Glikman

yury.glikman@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Tel. +49 (0)30 3463-7718

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