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Open Data: The Current State and Challenges in Macedonia
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The concept of Open Data represents the idea that certain data should be freely available to the public, for use, reuse, republishing and redistributing, with little or no restrictions. The goal is to make data of public nature available in an open manner, in a raw and machine-readable format, so that they can be used for building useful applications which leverage their value, allow insight, provide access to government services, and support transparency. These data can contribute to the overall development of the society, by both boosting the ICT business sector with new business value and allowing the citizens a deeper insight into the work of their government. This recent rise in interest for Open Data introduced the necessity for efficient mechanisms which enable easy transformation, publishing, management, consumption and visualization of the data. In our ongoing research in the field of Open Data and Linked Data, we try different approaches which would potentially provide effective and efficient methods for creating an Open Data eco-system in the Republic of Macedonia.
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Recent activities of governments around the world regarding the publication of open government data on the Web, re-introduced the Open Data concept. The concept of Open Data represents the idea that certain data should be freely available to the public, i.e. the citizens, for use, reuse, republishing and redistributing, with little or no restrictions. The goal is to make non-personal data open, so that it can be used for building useful applications which leverage their value, allow insight, provide access to government services and support transparency. These data can contribute to the overall development of the society, by both boosting the ICT business sector and allowing citizens a deeper insight into the work of their government. This recent rise in interest for Open Data introduced the necessity for efficient mechanisms which enable easy publishing, management and consumption of such data. Therefore, we developed an Open Data Portal, with the use of the technologies of the Semantic Web. It allows users to publish, manage and consume data in machine-readable formats, interlink their data with data published elsewhere on the Web, publish applications build on top of the data, and interact with other users.
Today, there is a growing trend for publishing public data in an open format, on the web, making it available for everyone to use and reuse. This idea has been widely supported by governments and companies throughout the world, which have made their own public data available in such way. Some of them, like the World Bank, even challenge developers to write applications based on their open data, by organizing competitions [1]. Data has become the new raw material of the 21 st century [2]. The Linked Open Data project has begun turning the document-oriented web into a database of global proportions [3]. The Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering joins this trend by making parts of its public data available as open data. This paper introduces a system for mapping relational data from databases into data represented in semantic web format (N3 and RDF), as well as editing and querying the data by using a SPARQL endpoint. Here we describe the process of publishing the open data from our Faculty, as well as some basic information from the other faculties which are part of the "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje. We also propose some possible applications which can use this open data, and in that way add more value to it.
Today, many organizations and institutions have vast collections of datasets and databases filled with information that, in general, can turn out to be very useful for individuals and for the society [1]. The Police is one such institution which is obliged by law to keep an archive of all the information it deals with on a daily basis. All that information about the criminal events that have occurred in the past can be used in many ways. In this work, we present a research project focused on crime analysis using the concept of crime map, which can be very useful for the law enforcement agencies as well as for the citizens. This research project resulted in an effective crime map of the Republic of Macedonia, which consists of about 1800 events in total. With this project we hope to encourage and motivate the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as other institutions, to continue liberating valuable data and bring the benefits of the Open Data idea to its citizens.
Web-based Disaster and Crisis Management System
- I Mishkovski
- R Stojanov
- B Kostadinov
I. Mishkovski, R. Stojanov, B. Kostadinov, “Web-based Disaster and Crisis Management System”, in Proceeding from the 10th Conference for Informatics and Information Technology, 2013 (to be published).
Participating Countries, Macedonia: http://www.opengovpartnership.org
- Government Open
- Partnership
Open Government Partnership, Participating Countries,
Macedonia:
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/node/%2077
Open Government Data: reconciling PSI reuse rights and privacy concerns
- H Graux
H. Graux, " Open Government Data: reconciling PSI reuse rights and privacy concerns ", European Public
Sector Information Platform, Topic Report No. 2011/3,
October 2011:
http://epsiplatform.eu/sites/default/files/Topic_Report
_Privacy.pdf
Digital Fuel of the 21 st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect
- V Kundra
V. Kundra, "Digital Fuel of the 21
st Century: Innovation
through Open Data and the Network Effect", Joan
Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public
Policy, Harvard College, January 2012:
http://shorensteincenter.org/2012/01/digital-fuel-ofthe-21st-century-innovation-through-open-data-andthe-network-effect/