The Open Data Portal Austria

An initiative for non-government open data

Martin Kaltenbck
Semantic Web Company | OK.AT | ODI Node Vienna
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Semantic Web Company (SWC) founded 2000 in Vienna, Austria

25 Experts in Linked (Open) Data Technologies
Core Product: PoolParty Semantic Suite
Focus: Semantic Information-, Data- & Knowledge Management

OK.AT active since 2010, OK Chapter since 2011

14 Board Member: OpenData, OpenScience, OpenGLAM, OpenDesign,

ODI Node Vienna in place since September 2015

4 Partners: SWC, DU Krems, TU Vienna, WU Vienna
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Open Data in Austria:

March 2014, Athens, Greece, EDF2014:

Open Government Team City of Vienna
wins European Data Innovator Award 2014
June 2014, Seoul, Korea: data.gv.at wins
1st prize of UN Public Service Award
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Open Data Portal Austria

Open Data in Austria:

Public Administration is leading (www.data.gv.at)

Community is in place
Infrastructure for non-government data missing

The solution: www.opendataportal.at

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The Open Data Portal Austria

...is the central (Meta-)Data Portal for Non-Government.
Our main target groups are:

Industry / Economy
NGO/NPO
Cultural Heritage & Arts
Research & Science
Society

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Open Data Portal Austria

The project:

follows the Open Data Principles of Cooperation OGD Austria

Is a CKAN / WP based data catalogue
All data under open license: CC BY 3.0 AT
Non-profit oriented
Sister catalogue to data.gv.at

BETA Launch: July 2014

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Open Data Portal Austria

Project Partner:

Wikimedia Austria
Open Knowledge Austria
Cooperation OGD Austria

With support of :
netIdee Internetfoundation Austria

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Open Data Portal Austria

What does ODP offer:

Open Data & Metadata

Applications on top
Library of Data Tools
Editorial News & Highlights

Structured along 14 Topics

Support for Data Publishers & Data Users
Close co-operation & integration with data.gv.at
Regular ODP Community Meetings and more
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ODP Data today

350 Datasets
27 Provider
7 Applications
Codelists
Statistics
Financial Data
POIs & Locations
Products
News Streams
Events Streams
Geodata, .

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Public Sector

NPO & NGO

Private Sector

Data Integration (BI, MI, Data Warehouse)

Example: Industrial Facilities: competitive advantage by market intelligence solutions

Example : Media & Publishing: cost savings through automated data enrichment
Example : Real Estate: better information on properties (direct access to cadastre data)
Example : Transport / mobility (real time information): better occupancy rates

Applications (APPS)

ODP
supports
Open Data
Business
in several
sectors!

Direct revenues through license fees for data re-use

Direct tax revenue through new job creation, better economic development
Direct revenues for the economy on top of better & innovative products & services

Data Enrichment
Sale of enriched data on top of open data
Enrichment of data by meta data (increase in value of data)
Converter services for harmonised data formats (ETL, Data Integration Services)

Data Visualisation & -analysis Services

Services in the fields of data analysis and data visualisation

Infrastructure
Cloud services
SLAs for enterprise data management

Open Data Innovation

Open Innovation via crowd sourcing mechanisms
Open Innovation via mass customisation

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Findings & Outlook

Factor for Success: Why provide Data on ODP?
Create Visibility: on portal & through data (in Apps et al)
Foster Innovation: Crowd Sourcing & Outsourcing of APP Development
Low Hanging Fruits first: POIs, news & events, .
Learn playfully the work with & see the potential of data
Push data management in own organisation: data monitoring, tools & technologies,
licenses, use cases, data literacy, .

What comes next

Foster co-operations with data providers
Push data use: hackathons & competitions
Participate in Open Data Quality Project: ADEQUATe
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Open Data Portal Austria

Data Exchange
requested!

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Open Data Portal Austria

Martin Kaltenbck
CFO, Semantic Web Company
Board Member OK.AT, Advisory Council UK
Founding Member ODI Node Vienna
+43 1 4021235
m.kaltenboeck@semantic-web.at
www.semantic-web.at
www.poolparty.biz

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