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Fadi Maali, Richard Cyganiak, Vassilios Peristeras

Enabling Interoperability of Government Data Catalogues

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Government Data Catalogues Interoperability

Strong trend towards more openness and transparency in governments.● Demanded by public.● Embraced by many administrations.

Promises both economic and social benefits.

Data Catalogues acts as one-stop data portals.

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Government Data Catalogues Interoperability

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Cross catalogues application● Geographically-overlapping (UK + London).● Thematically-complementary.

Distributed publishing.

Standardized tools.

Reference structure for new catalogues.

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Our work:● In-depth analysis of seven catalogues from five

countries. Our output:

● Reference catalogue structure● RDF vocabulary● Set of instructions

Our results:● Published three catalogues in RDF.● We are a W3C eGov IG project now!● data.gov.uk and mass.gov are using our model!