In the last years, a number of government led initiatives have been launched worldwide
aiming at making government data freely available to everyone, without limiting restrictions …

With the growth of e-government programs, the available data to citizens is growing in
volume every day. However, to make these data a useful source of information, to be …

Open government data is a valuable resource of information addressed to a significant
number of recipients. However, this information is usually published in raw format, ie without …

Open government data (OGD) refers to making public sector information freely available in
open formats and ways that enable public access and facilitate exploitation. Lately, a large …

Government data is powerful, plentiful, and relevant to citizens' concerns. Making it open
supports transparency, crowdsourcing data enhancement, and innovative service …

Since the beginning of the release of open data by many countries, different methodologies
for publishing linked data have been proposed. However, they seem not to be adopted by …

This document sets out a series of best practices designed to facilitate development and
delivery of open government data as Linked Open Data. Linked Open Data makes the World …

We tackle the challenges involved in converting raw government data into high-quality
Linked Government Data (LGD). Our approach is centred around the idea of self-service …

Companies and institutions now realize the potential of Linked Open Data (LOD) and they
start publishing their own data as LOD. However, publishing LOD is still a challenging task …

Abstract Publishing Government Linked Data (and Linked Data in general) is a process that
involves a high number of steps, design decisions and technologies. Although some initial …