Linking Government Data

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Publishing Linked Government Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. The Joy of Data - A Cookbook for Publishing Linked Government Data on the Web

      • Bernadette Hyland, David Wood

      Pages 3-26

   3. Methodological Guidelines for Publishing Government Linked Data

      • Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Luis. M. Vilches-Blázquez, Oscar Corcho, Asunción Gómez-Pérez

      Pages 27-49

   4. Producing and Using Linked Open Government Data in the TWC LOGD Portal

      • Timothy Lebo, John S. Erickson, Li Ding, Alvaro Graves, Gregory Todd Williams, Dominic DiFranzo et al.

      Pages 51-72

   5. Linking Geographical Data for Government and Consumer Applications

      • Tom Heath, John Goodwin

      Pages 73-92

3. Improving Linked Data Quality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-94

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   2. Creating and Publishing Semantic Metadata about Linked and Open Datasets

      • Matias Frosterus, Eero Hyvönen, Joonas Laitio

      Pages 95-112

   3. StdTrip: Promoting the Reuse of Standard Vocabularies in Open Government Data

      • Percy Salas, José Viterbo, Karin Breitman, Marco Antonio Casanova

      Pages 113-133

   4. Official Statistics and the Practice of Data Fidelity

      • Richard Cyganiak, Michael Hausenblas, Eoin McCuirc

      Pages 135-151

4. Consuming Linked Government Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-154

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   2. Visualizing Open Government: Case Study of the Canadian Recordkeeping Approach

      • Pierre Desrochers

      Pages 155-180

   3. Linking Australian Government Data for Sustainability Science - A Case Study

      • Qing Liu, Quan Bai, Li Ding, Huong Pho, Yun Chen, Corné Kloppers et al.

      Pages 181-204

   4. The Web is My Back-end: Creating Mashups with Linked Open Government Data

      • Dominic DiFranzo, Alvaro Graves, John S. Erickson, Li Ding, James Michaelis, Timothy Lebo et al.

      Pages 205-219

5. Back Matter

   Pages 221-232

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Linking Government Data provides a practical approach to addressing common information management issues. The approaches taken are based on international standards of the World Wide Web Consortium. Linking Government Data gives both the costs and benefits of using linked data techniques with government data; describes how agencies can fulfill their missions with less cost; and recommends how intra-agency culture must change to allow public presentation of linked data. Case studies from early adopters of linked data approaches in international governments are presented in the last section of the book. Linking Government Data is designed as a professional book for those working in Semantic Web research and standards development, and for early adopters of Semantic Web standards and techniques. Enterprise architects, project managers and application developers in commercial, not-for-profit and government organizations concerned with scalability, flexibility and robustness of information management systems will also find this book valuable. Students focused on computer science and business management will also find value in this book.

• Linked data
• Semantic Web
• World Wide Web
• data architecture
• e-government
• enterprise data
• information organization
• open standards

• 3 Round Stones Inc., Fredericksburg, USA

  David Wood

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