Abstract
Abstract. Open Data, and Open Government Data, are proving to be an important resource for the economic development inside the domain where information has a key role (Carrara et al., 2015). Although, different practices for data publishing have led to misalignment, underuse and repetition of information (Bizer et al., 2011). For this reason, the Public Administrations have undergone efforts on integrating the information and promoting interoperability through the implementation of best practices, as for example, the use of a common semantics vocabulary for the metadata (DCAT) as proposed by the ISA2 programme of the European Commission. The Interreg Italy-Switzerland GIOCOnDA project has been proposed for enhancing the data sharing processes in the cross-border area, particularly addressing tourism and mobility that are key economic activities for the region. For this work, a review on the data catalogues published in dati.lombardia.it and opendata.swiss is presented. The revision of the datasets showed the need for: 1) defining common semantics for the description of the categories of data to avoid the arbitrary use of vocabularies, and 2) adopting standards for the description of geodata. On the other hand, it was observed the potential to gather existing information to produce geodata querying the datasets with specific keywords that can provide spatial information. Open data, as well as the use of best practices for publishing data, push towards the use of FOSS. In this work, Python has been exploited to analyse the content of the catalogues to access web portals resources.
Highlights
Open data, and, open government data, have become a mean for the Public Administrations (PAs) to prove transparency on their activities through the engagement of the public in their work
An interesting point is that the vocabulary used to describe the “mobility and transport” by Lombardy Region open data catalogue is similar to the one used by the Swiss PA to address “tourism”
This document presents first analyses made for the Interreg Italy-Switzerland project GIOCOnDA, being the project main purpose the integration of the open data infrastructure of the Public Administrations along the cross-border area
Summary
Open government data, have become a mean for the Public Administrations (PAs) to prove transparency on their activities through the engagement of the public in their work. The European Union has been actively developing different programmes to promote data interoperability among the PAs. Initially, the European Commission presented the Interoperability solutions for public administrations programme (ISA, 2010-2015) “...to improve the interactions, exchange and cooperation among European public administrations” (European Commission, 2010). It is important to realise that the current actions to improve the practices for exchange of open government data are performed at larger scale level than the national administrations, addressing the possibility of knowledge exchange between the cross-border regions This is due to the awareness of the PAs of the fact that some of the production activities require the interaction with stakeholders of different governances. It is presented the ongoing review of the current state of the data infrastructure and open data availability between the Italy-Switzerland cross-border regions, with particular focus on data interoperability
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