Linking open government data: what journalists wish they had known

Many government organizations publish a variety of data on the web to facilitate transparency. The multitude of sources has resulted in heterogeneous structures and formats as well as varying quality of such data. We report on a project dubbed GovWild (Government Web Data Integration for Linked Data) that integrates and cleanses open government data at a large scale. Also, we point to the unified and clean integration result, published as Linked Open Data at govwild.hpi-web.de, and feature our web application to showcase the usability of the created dataset. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Misc. General Terms Semantics Keywords Linked Open Data, Open Government Data, NYT Data, Integration

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ISEMANTICS
• Authors: Christoph Böhm, Felix Naumann, Markus Freitag, Stefan George, Norman Höfler, Martin Köppelmann, Claudia Lehmann, Andrina Mascher, Tobias Schmidt
• Keywords: Government Web Data, ISEMANTICS 2010, Machine Learning, Open Data, Open Government Data