Unlocking the potential of public sector information with semantic web technology

  • Authors:

  • Harith Alani;David Dupplaw;John Sheridan;Kieron O'Hara;John Darlington;Nigel Shadbolt;Carol Tullo

  • Affiliations:

  • Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;Office of Public Sector Information, London, UK;Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;Office of Public Sector Information, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Governments often hold very rich data and whilst much of this information is published and available for re-use by others, it is often trapped by poor data structures, locked up in legacy data formats or in fragmented databases. One of the great benefits that Semantic Web (SW) technology offers is facilitating the large scale integration and sharing of distributed data sources. At the heart of information policy in the UK, the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the part of the UK government charged with enabling the greater re-use of public sector information. This paper describes the actions, findings, and lessons learnt from a pilot study, involving several parts of government and the public sector. The aim was to show to government how they can adopt SW technology for the dissemination, sharing and use of its data.