Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Alvaro Graves
Hello everyone, A few days ago I attended ABRELATAM'13 an unconference focused on Open Data in Latin America. I proposed a session about Open Data + Linked Data to discuss how semantics and LOD in general can help government and civi organizations. I want to share the main ideas that emerged from

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Frans Knibbe | Geodan
Hello Alvaro, I think a big reason is the lack of data. I believe that if governmental institutions in my country would publish their data as five star data there would be a boom in development of civic apps, and in the publication of other data sets as Linked Data too. As things stand now, t

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/26/13 10:03 AM, Alvaro Graves wrote: Hello everyone, A few days ago I attended ABRELATAM'13 an unconference focused on Open Data in Latin America. I proposed a session about Open Data + Linked Data to discuss how semantics and LOD in general can help government and civi organizations. I

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program
. From: Alvaro Graves To: Linked Data community Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:03 AM Subject: Civic apps and Linked Data Hello everyone, A few days ago I attended ABRELATAM'13 an unconference focused on Open Data in Latin America. I proposed a session about Open

RE: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Sands Alden Fish
ftware Engineer / Data Scientist - MIT Libraries - sa...@mit.edu From: alvaro.gra...@gmail.com [alvaro.gra...@gmail.com] on behalf of Alvaro Graves [alv...@graves.cl] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:03 AM To: Linked Data community Subject: Civic apps and Linked Da

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Gannon Dick
...@gmail.com [alvaro.gra...@gmail.com] on behalf of Alvaro Graves [alv...@graves.cl] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:03 AM To: Linked Data community Subject: Civic apps and Linked Data Hello everyone, A few days ago I attended ABRELATAM'13 an unconference focused on Open Data in Latin America. I

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
--- *From:* alvaro.gra...@gmail.com [alvaro.gra...@gmail.com] on behalf of Alvaro Graves [alv...@graves.cl] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:03 AM *To:* Linked Data community *Subject:* Civic apps and Linked Data Hello everyone, A few days ago I attended ABRELATA

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Dave Reynolds
While one could debate the scale of impact I do see some successful civic apps here in the UK. For example, the Environment Agency's (EA) publication of "real" time data on quality of water at bathing sites [1] has been quite successful. As well as the nice explorer application provided with

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Alvaro Graves
Hi Frans, I think there is a chicken-and-egg problem there. Governments won't release Linked Data since they don't see the value of doing so because nobody uses it (at least that's what employees from several government have told me). I disagree with Kinsgley in terms that Linked Data is not comp

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/26/13 6:12 PM, Alvaro Graves wrote: Hi Frans, I think there is a chicken-and-egg problem there. Governments won't release Linked Data since they don't see the value of doing so because nobody uses it (at least that's what employees from several government have told me). I disagree with

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-27 Thread Frans Knibbe | Geodan
On 27-6-2013 0:12, Alvaro Graves wrote: Hi Frans, I think there is a chicken-and-egg problem there. Governments won't release Linked Data since they don't see the value of doing so because nobody uses it (at least that's what employees from several government have told me). That could be a fa

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-27 Thread ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program
. From: Frans Knibbe | Geodan To: Alvaro Graves Cc: Linked Data community Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:05 AM Subject: Re: Civic apps and Linked Data On 27-6-2013 0:12, Alvaro Graves wrote: Hi Frans, > > >I think there is a chicken-and-egg prob