Semantic Web in Government

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This page needs development! Please expand it! We need examples of the Semantic Web in public services and government. If you have an idea you want to add but don't want to sign up for the wiki, you can e-mail it to tom [at] tommorris [dot] org (or send it to me on any of the social networking sites like Facebook etc.)

There are numerous places where governments can take the lead in helping to build the Semantic Web - both by publishing data in open formats and with open licenses, and by helping to define good practices for others.

Please also add government services and data sources you would like to see made more open and how.

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[edit] Libraries

  • LIBRIS is the website of the Swedish National Union Catalogue, and provides details of research and scholarly libraries in Sweden as well as listing books available inside them. They provide cool URIs for each of their resources and also provide representations of that data in both HTML and RDF so it can be linked together in a web of linked data. You can find out more about the design by listening to an interview with Martin Marlmsten, one of the developers on the project.

[edit] Universities, science and education

  • REQUEST It would be really useful to have a useful index of degree courses, degree awarding institutions, entry requirements, research funding and scholarships, especially if the whole process could be automated so that reminders can be sent if you meet the relevant criteria for research funding (etc.) It would be very cool if the courses could be 'linked' - there are plenty of courses - 'foundation courses', 'diploma' programmes etc. - which provide two of three years of a degree, and thus having a way of automatically finding out who offers a top-up would be useful.

[edit] Hospitals and health providers

[edit] Law, courts, police and justice

[edit] Trade and business

[edit] Transport

  • REQUEST Train and bus timetables online, linked in with dbPedia, Geonames and so on.

[edit] The democratic process

  • GovTrack.us publishes RDF data about legislation, voting records and Congressional representatives. This is linked in with US Census Data.
  • TheyWorkForYou has been RDFized by Open Link Software - see examples page. It would be great if we could get TWFY and PublicWhip data linked in with dbPedia and other linked data resources.
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