Linked open government data

Linked open government data

De Klerk, P.R.

Houben, G.J.P.M. (mentor)
Hollink, L. (mentor)
Zaidman, A.E. (mentor)
Overbeek, H. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Web Information Systems

Computer Science, track Information Architecture

2011-10-20

More and more governments are setting up data portals on the web where they publish open government data. The (re)use of this government data can create economic value and increase transparency. The linked data format is part of the Semantic Web and adds more meaning to data than conventional data formats, which improves reusability. It is therefore a suitable data format for the publication of open government data. This thesis describes the process of transforming legacy data formats to linked data. The process is based on findings in literature and improved by the transformation of a small number of open government datasets. Each step of the transformation will be described in detail. The adapted process is evaluated in a new transformation of open government datasets. The main contribution of this thesis are the recommendations on how create linked open government data.

linked data
open data
semantic web
RDF
government data
data portal
transformation

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Student theses

master thesis

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