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Opening up and linking the accounts of 8100 italian municipalities Michele Barbera, <[email protected] > TW: <@barbz79it><@lod_it> venerdì 21 ottobre 2011

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Introducing Openbilanci: opening up the accounts of 8100 italian municipalities

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Opening up and linking the accounts of 8100 italian municipalities

Michele Barbera, <[email protected]>TW: <@barbz79it><@lod_it>

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In Italy there are 8096 municipalitiesInhabitants: Pedesina (34) < Rome (2,5 M)

Flickr: markturner

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Municipal financial statements are crucial to:

- Understand how the city is administered- Make administrators accountable- Empower citizens

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Yet they are very difficult to read and understand for citizens and (sometimes also) administrators themselves

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Digitization didn’t make them easier to understand

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But it made them (sort of) machine readable

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So we scraped, curated and linked8100 municipalities * 10 years * ~15 pages

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To exctract useful information data needs to be contextualized.

Linked with:- Demographics and other statistical data (ISTAT)- Data on local governors (OPENPOLIS)- Geodata (OPENSTREETMAP)

Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/

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WARNING:it’s still an alpha prototype,we need your help!

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http://alpha.openbilanci.linkedopendata.it/invite.php

Request an invite, leave your feedback!

(or just click “cancel” on the auth form)

NOTICE: several essential features (data dump, linked data output, APIs, embeddable widgets, 2009-2010 data) are not yet available!

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Future WorkLots of ideas, please talk to us (or leave a

message near the poster), we’ll be around.

Michele Barbera “@barbz79it”, “@lod_it”Aline Pennisi

Slides available at http://slideshare.net/barbz79it

Thank you!

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Future WorkLots of ideas, please talk to us (or leave a

message near the poster), we’ll be around.

Michele Barbera “@barbz79it”, “@lod_it”Aline Pennisi

Slides available at http://slideshare.net/barbz79it

Thank you!

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Netseven, Pisa

@lod_it

Michele Barbera:[email protected]

@lod_it

Netseven, Pisa

@lod_it

Michele Barbera:[email protected]@linkedopendata.it

Netseven, Pisa

@lod_it

Michele Barbera:[email protected]@openpolis.it

www.openpolis.it

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Credits

Slides available at http://slideshare.net/barbz79it

PhotosFlickr: Rome, markturnerFlickr: Hieroglyph 2, tore_urnes

Thanks toVittorio Alvino, OpenpolisMirko Balducci, ISIAMassimiliano Brocchini, Net7Guglielmo Celata, OpenpolisEttore Di Cesare, OpenpolisEnrico Giusti, Net7Aline Pennisi, OpenpolisAlessio Piccioli, Net7Alessandro Pironi, HyperboreaAlberto Piu, Net7Sauro Salvadori, Hyperborea

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