Applying Linked Open Datato Public ProcurementExperiences from the LOD2 project
PSI Group meetingJanuary 24, 2013
Jindřich Mynarz (@jindrichmynarz)
LOD2 project
EU FP7 research project advancing linked open data to the next level.
Duration: 09/2010 - 08/2014Coordinator: AKSW,University of Leipzig
http://lod2.eu/
http://lod2.eu/WikiArticle/Consortium.html
LOD2 Stack:Linux distribution for linked open data
http://stack.lod2.eu/
Our domain
http://bit.ly/lod2-wp9a
17,3 % of EU's GDP
Our tasks
● Publishing
● Matchmaking
● Analytics
prolonging the life-cycleof public procurement data
Vision: Distributed marketplace for public contracts
● Defragmentation of public procurement data
● Enable supply to meet demand in an open, linked data infrastructure
Shopping Cart designed by Eray Kula from The Noun Project
Public procurement LOD cloud
http://linked.opendata.cz
Tools developed
● Strigil○ screen-scraping, data extraction
● ODCleanStore○ cleaning and linking data
● Public contracts filing app (mockup)○ publishing and matchmaking data
Public contracts filing application
Visualizations
Czech public procurement spending as a heat map
http://teplotakolem.tk/
Top 50 spending flows in German public procurement
Why does it matter?
● Transparency: contracting in public● Openness leads to fair competition● Efficient resource allocation: potential for
cost savings● Better data better procurement
Challenges
● Unclear licensing: "© European Union"?● Machine readability● Entity reconciliation● Cross-country procurement● Long tail of public procurement
EU Digital Agenda Scoreboard
Acknowledgement
Supported by EU ICT FP7 under No. 257943 (LOD2 project)
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