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/

Government linked data cloud

http://lod-cloud.net

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

http://payola.cz

http://payola.cz

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

Next steps?

EC's Open Data Portal

Acknowledgement

Supported by EU ICT FP7 under No. 257943 (LOD2 project)