From Data to Your Data Stories
Anna Triantafillou, ATC Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR ‘Demokritos’ Big Data Europe Workshop, Luxemburg 18/11/2015
YourDataStories at a Glance • An EU Funded Project – INSO-1-2014: ICT-Enabled open government
• Starting Date: February 1st, 2015 • Duration: 36 months • Scope: Innovation Action – Pilots on transparency
• Highlights – Actions should pilot tools to increase the transparency
impact of ICT-based technology platforms of the public sector;
– The transparency tools to be piloted should benefit from open data and help in monitoring, enhancing accountability & fighting corruption
Pilot 1: Follow public money all the way in Greece
• Comprehensive analysis of available data – RDFise and interconnect data from various
(governmental) sources • National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF),
Greek Transparency Portal (Diavgeia), etc. – Enhance data along various dimensions
• Detailed geo-information, ground named-entities, etc.
– Provide the Data Citizen, public servants, auditors with tools to query, discover and participate in the fiscal transparency process
Pilot 2: Tracking Development Aid in the Netherlands
• Analysis of data across multiple countries – RDFise and interconnect data from
various sources • Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS),
International AID Transparency Initiative (IATI), MIT’s Atlas, etc.
– Provide journalists with tools to discover ‘news’ stories • Answering “interesting questions”
– How much did the Netherlands spend on foreign aid related to Zimbabwe in the time frame 2005-2014, what sectors was this money spent on and in relation to what?
Pilot 3: Cross-Europe Financial Comparability
• Comparative analysis of data across EU – Exploit our unifying model, vocabulary, and tools
to enable comparisons of economic data across EU • The results from the Greek ‘Follow Public Money all
the way’ pilot will be compared with data from the Irish National and Local Government
Challenges
• Economic open data are: – Heterogeneous – Incompatible vocabularies – Not related to policy goals
• With great potential! – We need tools and
infrastructure to alleviate these problems
http://www.yourdatastories.eu