WIT Press

Developing a data map for opening public sector information

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

Volume 11 (2016), Issue 3

Pages

5

Page Range

370 - 375

Paper DOI

10.2495/DNE-V11-N3-370-375

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

LLORENÇ VAQUER, JOSE VICENTE CARCEL, ANDRÉS FUSTER, IRENE GARRIGÓS, FRANCISCO MACIÁ, JOSE-NORBERTO MAZÓN& JOSE JACOBOZUBCOFF

Abstract

One of the key issues in developing an open data portal is detecting, selecting, classifying and prioritizing the data of the organization to be opened. It is not a trivial task since organizations (as universities) are rather complex (in terms of staff and existing information systems) and furthermore, data from universities has a rather heterogeneous nature. This paper introduces the “data map” concept as a means to support carrying out this process. A data map aims to help in improving the process of opening data, reaching a high level of automation by considering the required metadata and semantics.

Keywords

API restful, data map, metadata, ontology, open data, semantic web