Hello SMW community, Given that 1) SMW often is used to publish Open Data and 2) SMWCon Fall 2013 had an own session on SMW in the Public Sector:
Maybe you are interested in the following venue to share you experiences [1]. Best, Benedikt [1] ---------------------------------------- Samos Summit Workshop: Uses of Open Data Within Government for Innovation and Efficiency - Forward-Looking, Visionary Approaches for Public Sector Information Sharing and Utilisation ==Call For Papers== Open data provides an unprecedented opportunity for innovation around transparent, evidence-based decision making, public engagement and trust. Just as importantly, it also facilitates more efficient government with each department or agency better able to reuse data collected and managed by their colleagues (perhaps very distant colleagues). Public sector information (PSI) may be offered as "open data" in many forms and through different media: from simple datasets describing traffic or unemployment, to Web services linking and mashing information from different sources, to interactive visualisation of complex phenomena, to citizen-based data gathering and transmission. Through these different channels, new information is made available across the public and private sectors, to scientists, citizens and enterprises, all of whom are then able to benefit from each other's activities in a growing network effect. That's the promise. So what's the reality? With many initiatives already in place, what innovations have we seen both in terms of curation and publishing, and in terms of data reusage? What are the effiency gains? How much of the promise of open data is being fulfilled? Are expectations being met? If so, how? If not, is it the expectations or the implementation that is wrong? ==Important Dates== * 13 April 2014 - Submission deadline * 1 May 2014 - Notification of acceptance * 30 June and 1 July 2014 - Workshop ==Expected Outcomes== The workshop report will show examples where innovation in the curation, publication and reuse of public sector information has and has not met the promise of open data, particularly in terms of improvements in operational efficiency. Where and how has this been achieved? Where initiatives that have fallen short of their promise, what might be the reasons for that? The expected outcome of the workshop will be helpful to EU Member States working to implement the revised PSI Directive. As with all Share-PSI 2.0 workshops (a total of five are planned), this workshop will provide input to the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, helping to maximise the impact of open data efforts around the world. ==Participation== The Share-PSI 2.0 partners invite short position papers describing initiatives undertaken to make public sector information available and the impact that these efforts have had. These should not be academic papers but descriptions of the discussion or presentation you would like to offer. Each organisation or individual wishing to participate must submit a position paper explaining their interest in the workshop by the deadline. The intention is to make sure that participants have an active interest in the area, and that the workshop will benefit from their presence. Topics include, but are not limited to: - uses of open data within government for innovation and efficiency proving the value of open data within the public sector; - improvement in public service delivery; - examples of open data utilisation for policy making purposes; - visionary ideas on open data utilisation within society and policy modelling; - new approaches for public sector information processing and visualisation; - open data and citizen participation in information gathering / crowdsourcing; - the open data feedback loop - communication between organizations that publish data and users of the data; - collaboration between different communities. Submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee within 2 weeks of the submission deadline. Participation is free, however, there will be a charge to cover catering costs. There is no funding to support participants' travel and accommodation expenses. ==Submission Guidelines== Papers should be a maximum of 5 pages long and should be submitted in a non-proprietary format (HTML, PDF, ePub etc.) via e-mail to group-share-psi_at_w3.org. Please include an abstract of the paper in your e-mail. Note that the archive for this e-mail address is visible to Share-PSI partners and W3C Team only. Submissions by more than one author are welcome; however only the coordinating author (as indicated in the submission) of the selected paper will be invited to take part in the Share-PSI workshop. Additional authors will be able to attend the workshop only if space allows. All selected contributions and associated slides will be published in the Share-PSI 2.0 Web site after the announcement of results. ==Venue== This 1st Share-PSI 2.0 workshop will be hosted by the University of the Aegean on the island of Samos, Greece, and in conjunction with the 5th Samos Summit on ICT-enabled Governance, 30 June to 1 July, 2014. More information on the Samos Workshop on Open Data is provided at http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/workshop/samos/ More information about Samos Summit is provided at http://www.samos-summit.org/ ==Programme Committee== Harris Alexopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece Martin Alvarez, CTIC, Spain Phil Archer, W3C Peter Bíro, Ministry of Finance, Slovakia Jean-Marie Bourgogne, Open Data France Heather Broomfield, Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi), Norway Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece Makx Dekkers, AMI Consult Muriel Foulonneau, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Valentina Janev, Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia Benedikt Kämpgen, KIT Pekka Koponen, Forum Virium Helsinki, Finland Stijn Goedertier, PwC, Belgium Pedro González Yanes Tom Heath, Open Data Institute (ODI), London, UK Dolores Hernandez, MINHAP, Spain Johann Höchtl, Danube University Krems, Austria Jan Kuèera, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Deirdre Lee, Insight-NUI Galway, Ireland Nikolaos Loutas, PwC, Belgium Ville Meloni, Forum Virium Helsinki, Finland András Micsik, SZTAKI, Hungary Philippe Mussi, Member of PACA Regional Parliament, Open Data France Thodoris Papadopoulos, Ministry of Administrative Reform and e-Government, Greece Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Daniel Pop, West University of Timisoara Mateja Presern, Ministry of the Interior, Slovenia José Luis Roda García, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain Nancy Routzouni, Ministry of Administrative Reform and e-Government, Greece Heike Schuster-James, Birmingham City Council, UK Steinar Skagemo, Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi), Norway Amanda Smith, Open Data Institute (ODI), London, UK Noël Van Herreweghe, eGov, Flemish government in Belgium Sanja Vrane¹, Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia Neven Vrèek, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Croatia Simon Whitehouse, Birmingham City Council, UK -- AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Phone: +49 (721) 608 48941 Email: benedikt.kaemp...@kit.edu Web: http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Hauptseite/en ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. 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