LIGHTNING TALKS

.	Talk	Presenter	Abstract
.	Open Natura 2000 – semantic web technology used for publishing PSI	Dariusz Głażewski	The ligthing talk is aimed at presenting a working project by the name of Open Natura 2000 (ON2K) which facilitates the semantic web technology for the purposes of publishing and combining public sector information. The project included semantization of standard data forms (which hold information on panEuropean Natura 2000 sites), building an open knowledge base with semantic data derived from standard data forms. It also included building agent applications which consume the data from Open Natura 2000 knowledge base and combine it with other semntic web data on the internet (e.g. dbpedia, freebase). During the presentation I will quickly show how it works and will share my experience as to how we achieved the data, how we made it open and how we added value to the data by combining it with other knowledge sources. I hope the presentation may inspire people to start their own projects or participate in the progress of the ON2K project.
.	Parasykjiems.lt (write to them))	Karolis Granickas	http://parasykjiems.lt is a web-based tool that allows users to find who their government representatives are and get directly in touch with them.
.	ICONVIS – Linking and visualizing public data through ontologies	Federico Cairo, Giuseppe Futia	Nowadays the Semantic Web is not widely spread yet, so public data holders use both old (database + HTML pages) and new (RDF stores + ontologies) data structures to expose information on the Internet. In accordance with the general principles of linked data and as a complement to the well-known Berners-Lee mantra “raw data now”, ICONVIS offers data publisher a gradual and at the same time rapid way to enrich their data with semantics and interconnect them on the Web. ICONVIS (Interactive and Customizable ONtology-based VIsualization System) aims at building a service on top of the data layer to present a conceptual view to final users. The result is a framework that allows you to make a database semantic by means of an ontology and to visualize its contents graphically. ICONVIS enhances database information runtime with new data from the Linked Open Data (LOD) community through SPARQL queries on the REST endpoints of DBPedia, GeoNames, Data.gov, etc. Our demo on Italian public data is available at http://iconvis.polito.it/bin-release/main.html.
.	Monitoring the Success of Open Government Data	Ramine Tinati	The success of Open Government Data Initiatives is contingent on the continuous effort of involved stakeholders releasing data for consumption. Tracking the release of this data provides a suitable metric to monitor the initiatives progress, enabling feedback to be provided which may improve their success and sustainability. To demonstrate this, we have tracked number of Open Government Data Catalogs, monitoring their data deposit rates since their creation. We then used ROAR, the Registry of Open Access Repository to provide a visual aid, enabling comparisons between the initiative’s data deposit activities.
.	OGD in Vienna – Benefits for Citizens and Administration	Thomas Jöchler	Telling the story of OGD Vienna so far.
.	MyPolis.pl – making public data public	Jan Herbst	MyPolis is designed to merge isolated and sometimes unpublished data on local communities and give it to the so called wide public – people who don’t necessarily know how to run complex statistical software, use APIs, create databases, and so on, but who are interested in a bit of information on where they live and how are they doing.
.	OpenStreetMap – how civic cartography can help government and vice-versa	Adam Mencwal	OpenStreetMap is community driven project that aims to revolutionize the way people create and use geospatial information. Its a civic initiative to make a free map of the whole world. The presentation shows how government can benefit from OpenStreetMap movement and how society can benefit from OSM data.
.	opendata.lv Case Study – Promote Open Data with Analytics and Visualizations	Raimonds Simanovskis	Huge volumes of text and numbers are boring but if data are processed and presented with nice visualizations then it becomes much more interesting. Government published data on their web sites typically are also boring. But if you can access source government data and publish them using more “sexy” visualizations then people will like it better as well as be able to get more value and knowledge out of the data. opendata.lv site was created with the goal to promote open data ideas in Latvia and to use open data analytics and visualizations as a promotion tool. Author of this site is also developing data analysis web application eazyBI which is available free of charge for publishing public data analytical reports and dashboards. Initial examples of Latvian open data analytical reports include referendum results on parliament dissolution, results of new parliament elections and donations to political parties. These examples raised positive interest about open data in social networks.
.	How to get open geo data on the road	Jan Willem van Eck	Where did we come from and where are we going with open geo data.
.	Designing the right Citizens Experience for Open Government Data	Mickael Jordan	Open Government Data has gained momentum through the launch of government data platforms and civilian applications. But so far, these services fail to lure in a massive amount of visitors. Data.gov has seen its budget drastically slashed, partly due to a disappointing traffic (only 30.000 unique visitors per month). This relative lack of citizens’ interest for existing data platforms has little to do with the government data itself, but much to do with the unfriendly user experience proposed to citizens. In a design-aware world with mainstream social networks, citizens are more demanding, and expect a much better experience on data platforms. This presentation will lay some fundamental principles to design a winning Open Government Data experience for worldwide citizens.
.	Supervizor – shortcut to better government transparency	Marko Samastur	Slovenian anti-corruption office recently launched Supervizor, a web application for monitoring public expenses. Supervizor was warmly received by general public and has registered more than a million page views in first 15 hours alone. This talk will concentrate on how we managed to build it in just a few weeks time with practically no budget and lessons we learned along the way.
.	OpenBilanci: opening up the budget of 8100 italian municipalities	Michele Barbera	OpenBilanci is an ongoing collaboration between LinkedOpenData.it and Openpolis, two italian no-profit association, which aims at opening up the budget of more than 8100 italian municipalities. The platform will be officially launched before the and of 2011. We would like to present a beta version at the camp to start gathering feedback and suggestions from the community.
.	Aid data special features and what already exists in the open data ecosystem	Ruth del Campo	The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is the emerging standard format for aid information. Governments are starting to release their aid data using IATI. However, unlike other government datasets, to get the whole information we need to involve other stakeholders, particularly NGOs. Isolated datasets for aid are not helpful because they do not show the whole picture and can lead to wrong analysis. Data sharing using standards is therefore extremely important for aid due to its international nature and the multiple data providers. When different actors are in play, having an emerging common standard will make aid datasets interoperable and compatible from the beginning. Showcasing several apps they have built to both encode and visualise this data, we will discuss what data is already available, how we can get more to get the whole picture, and what we can do with it.
.	Open Product Data	Øystein Jakobsen	Today, it is near impossible to make informed choices as a consumer. It is very difficult to answer questions such as “Is there child labour involved in making this chocolate?”, “Has the environment been damaged during the production of this TV?” or simply “Where is it cheapest for me to go grocery shopping?”. As such, the individual is severely restricted in its ability to exercise effective consumer influence. Informed Individual and a number of other NGO’s are demanding that relevant data regarding products and services be made publicly available. Just imagine what services could be made if raw data such as ingredients, nutrition, value chain and price were publicly available!
.	OGD Vienna	Christian Habernig	The City of Vienna OGD initiative https://data.wien.gv.at is shown.
.	MyPolis.pl – making public data public	Jan Herbst	MyPolis is designed to merge isolated and sometimes unpublished data on local communities and give it to the so called wide public – people who don’t necessarily know how to run complex statistical software, use APIs, create databases, and so on, but who are interested in a bit of information on where they live and how are they doing.