Approaching an optimizing open linked government data portal

Abstract

Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives provide means for stakeholders including developers, tech start-ups, civil society organizations and citizens to obtain government information about a locality or country, in order to reuse them and create a source of enrichment in several ways: new user services, internal lever of modernization, economic development and increased transparency. Several actors around the world are concentrating on the availability of open public data, by applying legal guidelines and beneficiating from the technical competence of public organizations in different countries. While these open data government portals tools to present, search, download and visualize the government information, critical availability of a large replicated datasets, therefore, a difficulty of finding relevant datasets and accessibility of datasets without connection between them. More concretely, in this paper, we present a template for an open government portal that takes advantage of different technologies, linked data to discover the links between heterogeneous datasets, natural language processing to aggregate in a semantic level similar data-set and ratings-based recommender systems to provide suggestions of datasets that may represent a potential interest for citizens.