EWI Open Data project - An experimental platform

EWI Open Data: an experimental platform

An experimental platform that is the base of a digital infrastructure for publishing and consuming data and sharing knowledge based on an Open Data framework.

Architecture

Use cases

Academic Use case

Tool supporting exploratory data analysis of Flemish Universities and their research metadata.

Data Journalism Use case

Tool supporting journalistic data analysis, visualization and storytelling processes.

Government Use case

Tool supporting finding contact information or services of Flemish local and central government administrations.

Publications

[1] Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Sam Coppens, and Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle.
R&Wbase: git for triples.
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web, WWW 2013
2013, Rio, Brazil

[2] Pieter Colpaert, Sarah Joye, Peter Mechant, Erik Mannens, Rik Van De Walle.
The five stars of Open Data Portals
METTEG13
2013, Spain

[3] Miel Vander Sande, Anastasia Dimou, Pieter Colpaert, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle.
Linked Data as enabler for Open Data Ecosystems
Proceedings of the W3C Workshop on Open Data on the Web
2013, London, UK

[4] Miel Vander Sande, Sam Coppens, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, and Rik Van de Walle.
Adding Time to Linked Data: A Generic Memento Proxy through PROV
Proceedings of the ISWC 2013 Posters & Demonstrations Track, ISWC 2013
2013, Sydney, Australia

[5] Anastasia Dimou, Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Erik Mannens, Rik Van De Walle.
Extending R2RML to a source-independent mapping language for RDF.
Proceedings of the ISWC 2013 Posters & Demonstrations Track, ISWC 2013
2013, Sydney, Australia

[6] Pieter Colpaert, Anastasia Dimou, Miel Vander Sande, Jonas Breuer, Mathias Van Compernolle, Erik Mannens, Peter Mechant, Rik Van de Walle.
A three-level data publishing portal
European Data Forum (EDF) 2014
2014, Athens, Greece

[7] Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Tom De Nies, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle.
Publish data as time consistent web API with provenance
WS-REST 2014, WWW 2014
2014, Seoul, Korea

[8] Anastasia Dimou, Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle.
RML: A Generic Language for Integrated RDF Mappings of Heterogeneous Data
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web, WWW 2014
2014, Seoul, Korea

[9] Erik Mannens.
Changing the Data Paradigm: Turning Open Data into Linked Data
The Parliament Magazine - Regional, Issue 381, pages 94-95, Dods Parliamentary Communications
2013

[10] Anastasia Dimou, Miel Vander Sande, Tom De Nies, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle.
RDF mapping rules refinements according to data consumers' feedback
Poster track, WWW 2014
2014, Seoul, Korea

[11] Anastasia Dimou, Laurens De Vocht, Mathias Van Compernolle, Erik Mannens, Peter Mechant and Rik Van de Walle.
A Visual Workflow to Explore the Web of Data for Scholars
Proceedings of the 1st Big Scholar workshop, WWW 2014
2014, Seoul, Korea

[12] Anastasia Dimou, Laurens De Vocht, Geert Van Grootel, Leen Van Campe, Jeroen Latour, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle.
Visualizing the information of a Linked Open Data enabled Research Information System.
Curent Research Information Systems (CRIS) 2014
2014, Rome, Italy

[13] Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle.
Painless URI dereferencing using The DataTank
Poster and Demo Proceedings, ESWC 2014
2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

[14] Anastasia Dimou, Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Laurens De Vocht, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle.
Extraction and Semantic Annotation of Workshop Proceedings in HTML using RML
Semantic Publishing Challenge of the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2014
2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

[15] Anastasia Dimou, Miel Vander Sande, Jason Slepicka, Pedro Szekely, Erik Mannens, Craig Knoblock, Rik Van de Walle.
Mapping Hierarchical Sources into RDF using the RML Mapping Language
International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC) 2014
2014, Newport Beach, California, USA

[16] Pieter Colpaert, Laurens De Vocht, Steven Verstockt, Anastasia Dimou, Raf Buyle, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle.
Ontology based improvement of opening hours in e-governments
International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC) 2014
2014, Newport Beach, California, USA

[17] Jonas Breuer.
Beyond Business Models - Stimulating balanced Open Data Ecosystems
Proceedings of the 25th European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunication Society (Disruptive Innovation in the ICT industries: Challenges for European policy and Busines)
2014, Brussels, Belgium

[18] Mathias Van Compernolle, Jolien Dewaele, Thomas D'haenens, Alexander Price, Raf Buyleand and Peter Mechant .
Informatie-uitwisseling bij lokale besturen: over LOD, OSLO, IPDC en andere rare afkortingen
2014, STUUR journal

[19] Peter Mechant, Mathias Van Compernolle, Anastasia Dimou, Laurens De Vocht and Lieven De Marez.
Linked Open data and research knowledge management: an exploratory search and visualization framework
6th International Conference on Education and Learning Technologies (EDULEARN14)
2014, Barcelona, Spain

[20] Pieter Colpaert, Mathias Van Compernolle, Laurens De Vocht, Anastasia Dimou, Miel Vander Sande, Peter Mechant, Ruben Verborgh and Erik Mannens.
Quantifying the Interoperability of Open Government Datasets (to appear)
2014

[21] Laurens De Vocht, Anastasia Dimou, Jonas Breuer, Mathias Van Compernolle, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, Peter Mechant, Rik Van De Walle.
A Visual Exploration Workflow as Enabler for the Exploitation of Linked Open Data
Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD14), ISWC14
2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy

[22] Laurens De Vocht, Mathias Van Compernolle, Anastasia Dimou, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens and Rik Van De Walle.
Converging on Semantics to Ensure Local Government Data Reuse (to appear)
5th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities, ISWC14
2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy