Unlocking the Potential of Public Sector Information with Semantic Web Technology

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A paper written by David Dupplaw, Carol Tullo, John Darlington, John Sheridan, Nigel Shadbolt, Harith Alani and Kieron O'Hara. It was presented at the ISWC2007+ASWC2007.

[edit] Abstract

Governments often hold very rich data and whilst much of this information is published and available for re-use by others, it is often trapped by poor data structures, locked up in legacy data formats or in fragmented databases. One of the great benefits that Semantic Web (SW) technology offers is facilitating the large scale integration and sharing of distributed data sources. At the heart of information policy in the UK, the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the part of the UK government charged with enabling the greater re-use of public sector information. This paper describes the actions, findings, and lessons learnt from a pilot study, involving several parts of government and the public sector. The aim was to show to government how they can adopt SW technology for the dissemination, sharing and use of its data.

A linked list of all papers is provided in the article on ISWC2007+ASWC2007 papers. This article has originally been created from the ISWC 2007/ASWC 2007 metadata.