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Michalis Vafopoulos NTUA publicspending & vafopoulos

Data in a nutshell. Michalis Vafopoulos NTUA www.publicspending.net & www.vafopoulos.org. Open data workshop, Lebanon 23/5/2014. Welcome to the data era. The era of Open budgets , spending, registries, contracting…. The Transparency program in Greece (2010-2014).

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Michalis Vafopoulos NTUA publicspending & vafopoulos

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  1. Data in a nutshell MichalisVafopoulos NTUA www.publicspending.net& www.vafopoulos.org Open data workshop, Lebanon 23/5/2014

  2. Welcome to the data era

  3. The era of Open budgets, spending, registries, contracting…

  4. The Transparency program in Greece (2010-2014) • A revolution in open government • ex-ante reporting of every state decision • paradigm shift for 40K public servants

  5. The Transparency program in Greece • manifests the value of procrastinationprinciple (again) • strong rival to the Clientelisticstate • The new version under beta testing (delivery: in 10 days!)

  6. publicspending.net 2011: I believed that the Transparency program is the open data “gold” (& persuaded 7 more people)

  7. publicspending.net 2012: …with some dust and rocks in a deep goldmine

  8. 2013: time to chisel some jewelry 2014: open data everywhere

  9. Indexing, searching, global comparisons

  10. Indexing, searching, global comparisons

  11. Indexing, searching, global comparisons

  12. Indexing, searching, global comparisons

  13. Indexing, searching, global comparisons

  14. Where the money goes in Greece

  15. Data: Open, big, linked • Open: access • …everyone to use and republish as she wishes • Big: scale • high volume, velocity and variety • Linked: use • Publish once, use as many times

  16. Is it working? • Current Employee Names, Salaries, and Position Titles • The Open Database Of The Corporate World • Crime map • NHS efficiency savings: the role of prescribing analytics • where public money goes worldwide

  17. Examples Can you find the famous persons born in Beirut before 1900? In Paris, Athens, … ?

  18. Examples #anoixtigenia, @vafopoulos

  19. Examples #anoixtigenia, @vafopoulos

  20. Why Open Data • more & better information • objective and processable information for economic/political “dialogue” • to promote competition • to decrease cost • to judge the efficiency of policy mixtures • to enable participation

  21. (initial) scope OGD to provide an objective& intermediatelayer of information that will enable citizens, journalists, business people and politicians to re-discover their own “stories” from data.

  22. LOD in Greece: why it is important • quality of information during economic crisis • transparency & efficiency in funding development

  23. Issues • how can we initiate the virtuous cycle of creation? demonstrate LOD’s added value • how to get the most out of data? local & global interconnections

  24. In few words, Apps, Apps, Apps…..

  25. Public Spending in Greece & worldwide publicspending.net • the first LOD App in Greece • daily updates • open spending linked data, endpoint & visualizations

  26. Insights in Global Public Spending

  27. Open but Effective? • Who really gets the public money? • For what? From whom? • Can we compare them? • Is public spending effective? • <your question goes here>

  28. Useful economic open data • The full cycle of public money • Uniform Company names • Compatible Payment categories

  29. 1. The full cycle of public money Prices

  30. Follow Public Money all the WayVocabulary (fpm) • A compact and minimal way to model the flows of public money • From budget to spending including business information and prices

  31. Useful economic open data • The full cycle of public money • Uniform Company names • Compatible Payment categories

  32. 2. Not uniform Company names The problem: different names for the same company “Oracle” in the Australian public spending

  33. Reconciling Company names: the CORFU technique Rodríguez, Jose MaríaÁlvarez, Ordoñez de Pablos, Patricia, Vafopoulos, Michalis N. and Labra, José Emilio

  34. 3. Compatible Payment categories The problem: Spending decisions are using different (or not any!) classification schemes (e.g. CPV, UNSSC, NAICS)

  35. Compatible Payment categories Transforming classification schemes or literal descriptions to CPV, expanding: The MOLDEAS project Methods On Linked Data for E-procurement Applying Semantics

  36. Reconciling Company names:the Forbes Global 2000 companies

  37. Compatible Payment categories

  38. Going global: AUSTRALIA

  39. the 5 stars of open linked data ★make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) ★★make it available as structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table) ★★★non-proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of excel) ★★★★use URLs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff ★★★★★link your data to other people’s data to provide context http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/

  40. Linked data = internet + http + RDF

  41. Linked Data Principles • Use URIs as names for things • Use URIs so that people can look up (dereference) those names. • When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information. • Include links to other URIs so that they can discover more things.

  42. Web as a database • Linked Data makes the web exploitable as ONE GIANT HUGE GLOBAL DATABASE! • Is there any query language like sql?SPARQL…

  43. What are we planning? • LOD for the main economic activities (insurance, banking) • Law for open data by default in ALL public organisations • Open data education (open generation)

  44. References • Vafopoulos, Michalis N., Rodríguez, Jose María Álvarez, Meimaris, Marios, Xidias, Ioannis, Klonaras, Michailis and Vafeiadis, Giorgos, Insights in Global Public Spending (May 12, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2264958 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2264958 • Vafopoulos, Michalis N., The Web Economy: Goods, Users, Models, and Policies (July 26, 2012). Michalis Vafopoulos (2012) "The Web Economy: Goods, Users, Models, and Policies", Foundations and Trends® in Web Science: Vol. 3: No 1-2, pp 1-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1800000015. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2117855 • ALVAREZ, J. and LABRA, J. 2012. Towards a pan-european e-procurement platform to aggregate, publish and search public procurement notices powered by Linked Open Data: the MOLDEAS approach. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 22, 3 (2012), 365–383.

  45. More info • Twitter: @vafopoulos • Vafopoulos@gmail.com • www.Vafopoulos.org • www.publicspending.net • www.Youtube.com/websciencegr

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