Co-funded by the EC under the FP7 – eInfrastructures Programme

An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Governmental Data Provision towards

Research Communities and Citizens

Rationale

Public Sector InformationVast amounts of data A new driver for research on many disciplines, both

theoretical and applied

Existing Open Data sites and servicesNon-standardised metadata, difficult to navigate National level onlyVery few linked data

Citizen participation Not encouraging citizen engagement, up to now

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What is the ENGAGE Concept ?

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Gathering data from governmental organisations and systems (the Gov Cloud)

Create an open service platform, integrating large amounts of public sector data, processing tools and resources, in support of the research communities dealing with governance and policy modelling, complex systems simulation, public administration transformation, government 2.0, information and communication technologies, future internet and social sciences

Providing PSI to research communities and citizens in a personalised manner

Empower researchers

Standardize open and linked governmental

data

Integrate public sector data

Engage citizens into the public service delivery

Curate, store, process public

sector information

Project Objectives (1/2)Create an open service platform, integrating large amounts of public

sector data, processing tools and resources, in support of the research communities dealing with governance and policy modelling, complex

systems simulation, public administration transformation, government 2.0, information and communication technologies, future internet and

social sciences.

Engage citizens into the public service delivery decision making process, by providing accurate information on the operation, cost and

overall value of public services, through user-friendly visualisation tools, thus being in the forefront of emerging Open Data initiatives in

Europe and the world.

Explore synergies with current e-Infrastructure projects and e-Infrastructure service providers so as to leverage on existing grid and

cloud services for curating, storing, processing and exploiting large amounts of public sector information.

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Project Objectives (2/2)

Contribute to the evolving standardisation for open and linked governmental data, consolidating various approaches for

harmonisation, annotation, pre-processing, anonymisation, interoperability and provision of data, from public sector

administrations at national, regional or local levels, towards scientists and citizens.

Empower and engage researchers and actors from non-ICT related disciplines, such as political science, economics, law, sociology, statistics, etc. in experimental research relating to solving complex problems of high importance for the society.

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Public Sector Information Collection

Data Curation Archival Data Search

and RetrievalAdvanced

Data Services

ENGAGE “Two-way” Usage Scenarios

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Delivering Public Sector Data to Researchers and Citizens

Delivering Open Data Needs and guidelines to Public Sector Organisations

•Public Sector Organisations•Open data initiations

•Pre-processing•Anonymisation•Harmonisation•Annotation•Linking

New Problems – new

Challenges

Search Data Needs

New Service Definition for

open data

Utilisation of existing

Infrastructures

Needs for Governmental data Provision

•Cloud and Grid Infrastructure•Platform Independence and Interoperability

•Open and intuitive access to the data collection•Context-specific search

•Visualisation (inc. combined views)•Context-specific formatting•Collaboration tools

•Public Sector Organisations

•ENGAGE and eInfrastructures

•ENGAGE•Society•Policy

•Research Communities•Policy makers

ENGAGE in the e-Infrastructure ecosystem

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Communication NetworksCommunication Networks

High Performance Computing

Distributed Computing

Infrastructures

Digital Repositories

Digital Repositories

Repository linkingRepository linking Interoperability &Standardisation Interoperability

&Standardisation Tools

developmentTools

developmentCommunity

buildingCommunity

building

Data ManagementData Management

ENGAGE Overall Architecture

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Data LinkingData Linking Semantic AnnotationSemantic Annotation AnonymisationAnonymisation HarmonisationHarmonisation

Visualisation - Analytics

Visualisation - Analytics

Search and Navigation tools

Search and Navigation tools

Social scienceSocial

science

Data Service Provision Infrastructure

Data Curation Infrastructure

Public Sector Information Sources

Tailored data services

Research and Industry Research and Industry Governance and policy making

Governance and policy making

Citizens and education

Citizens and education

Data analyticsData analytics

Knowledge / Data Mining

Knowledge / Data Mining

Directory services and direct linking to data

archives

Directory services and direct linking to data

archives

HumanitiesHumanities CitizensCitizensNatural Sciences and EngineeringNatural Sciences and Engineering GovernmentGovernment

User groups and stakeholders

Collaboration / Communities

Collaboration / Communities

PersonalisationPersonalisation

Single point of Access

Single point of Access

Data QualityData Quality Knowledge MappingKnowledge Mapping

Public Organisations, Repositories, Databases

HealthHealth

EducatorsEducators

Automatic curation algorithmsAutomatic curation algorithms

The Global Reach of ENGAGE

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ENGAGE Axes and WorkPackages

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A - NET

•A1: Project Management

•A2: Research Community Engagement and Dissemination

•A3: eInfrastructures Collaboration, Standardisation and Sustainability

B - SRV

•B1: ENGAGE Services Scenarios and Data Acquisition

•B2: ENGAGE Services Realisation and Deployment

•B3: Evaluation of ENGAGE services

C - RES

•C1: Data Mining, Curation, Visualisation and Provision Methods

•C2: Data Utilisation and Multidisciplinary Research Methods

Key Issues for the 1st Year

Engage the community Set up the Experts Scientific Committee Connect to research communities for PSI Liaise with other eInfrastructures and Opendata Projects

Collect data sources and data sets Building an initial directory, towards standardising metadata

Develop and validate the usage scenaria for ENGAGE Extending the state of the art in PSI utilisation from scientists and

citizens

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Key Issues for the 1st Year

Research on Data Curation and Visualisation Define the metadata sets and annotation mechanisms Work on linking and visualising data

Set-up the first version of the infrastructure Define the architecture Deploy the first services

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ENGAGE Planned Workshops and Presentations

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MeTTeG 2011 Conference - 5th International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government (30 June, Camerino)

Samos Summit on Future Internet (4-6 July, Samos): ENGAGE workshop on “Open Data and Citizen Engagement”

IFIP 2011 eGOV Conference (28 Aug-3 Sep, Delft) ENGAGE Workshop on « Open Governmental Data: from Governments to Science and Society»

Autumn 2011: the ENGAGE international call for innovative ideas on PSI acquisition, curation and provision

The ENGAGE Consortium

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Start Date 01/06/2011

Duration 36 months

Project Coordinator NTUA (Greece)

Project Partners University of the Aegean (Greece) TU Delft (Netherlands) Microsoft IC (Greece) IBM Research Israel(Haifa Research Lab) INTRASOFT International (Luxembourg) Science and Technology Facilities Council – STFC (UK) euroCRIS (Netherlands) Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V – FOCUS (Germany)