The Swiss OGD-Portal (Offene Archive 2.2, 4.12.2015)

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI

Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv BAR

Aktenzeichen:

The Swiss OGD PortalOne important social media channel

for an archive

Jean-Luc Cochard – CIOSwiss Federal Archives

2 Offene Archive 2.2Siegen – Dec. 3-4, 2015



History of the Project

2011/12 Procedural requests from different members of parliament

2012 Launch of www.stadt-zuerich.ch/opendata

2013 Report published as answer to the Wasserfallen postulate: OGD as E-Government Strategic Key Topic

2013 OGD-Pilot Portal opendata.admin.chunder the umbrella of the project OGD@Confederation

2015 SFA in charge of implementing the OGD Strategy




To be implemented M1 Verification and modification of the legal framework

M2 Process of data release

M3 Planing of data release

M4 Inventory of data catalogs at confederation level

M5 Verification of the fees policy

M6 Implemention of the OGD portal

M7 Provision of aids and tools

M8 Selection and definition of OGD standards

M9 Formulation of uniform terms of use

M10 Development of an OGD cooperation model

M11 Dialog with the OGD community

M12 Promotion of our data offer

M13 Evaluation of the OGD impact




Objective of the OGD Portal

Be the single point of trust to search for and find publicly available datasets produced by all levels of the Swiss administration – cities, cantons, and Confederation




Swiss Administration on OGD




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Challenges for implementing a successful OGD Portal• Identifying sources of raw data across the administration• Collecting metadata about datasets• Clarifying under which terms of use datasets are made

available• Referencing these datasets on a portal• Guaranteeing raw data availability




Challenges for implementing a successful OGD Portal

Relevant challenges for an archive in the context of archival sources

• Identifying sources of raw data across the administration• Collecting metadata about datasets• Clarifying under which terms of use datasets are made

available• Referencing these datasets on a portal• Guaranteeing raw data availability




And what about social media or interactions within OGD Portals?




The OGD Landscape in Europe




Interaction Channel - Twitter




Interaction Channel – Blog, Forum




Interaction Channel – Application Page




Central challenges of managing digital archives are• long preservation• reusability




Open Data is about ReusabilityOpen means• No legal constraint• No charge• Machine readable• No proprietary format




What is Linked Data?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMjkI4hJej0

Linked Data (Internet of Data) is a generalization of the internet of documents.In the internet of documents, a URL gets its meaning through its name and because human beings can read and understand its content (webpages).In the internet of data, a URI gets its meaning because machine can read and interpret its content. Additionally names are chosen to be self-explaining for humans







Archival Linked Open Datadata.alod.ch• Our catalog (3.5M entries) is under transcription in Linked

Data• Test data from other archives is available

• Further steps• Performance testing of a Linked Data Infrastructure• Referencing this dataset on OGD Portal• Transcribing and referencing catalogs from other

archives• Interlinking catalog entries• Promoting these datasets during hackathons




OGD Portals as Promotion Channels for Linked Data




Web

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tend

Metadata

OGD Lösung

CKAN

Metadaten

Primärdaten

such

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downloaden

OGD Portal

Datenlieferanten

verbinden (API)

Admin frontend




«Offene Archive» for the AFS

Interaction with content users • By attracting new customers through our OGD Portal • By replicating OGD best practices interaction strategies

into archival portals

Interaction with partners• By enhancing our catalogs with data from other catalogs if

available as Linked Data

Interaction with digital humanities specialists• By enabling data enhancement by 3rd parties

Education

The Swiss OGD-Portal (Offene Archive 2.2, 4.12.2015)