 Good afternoon, my name is Martin Kartenberg from the semantic web company And I'm very happy to tell you a little bit about the open data portal Austria That is an initiative for non-government open data. So a little bit of the background as Tom already said I'm coming from semantic web company. So we are sitting in Vienna and focusing on Semantic information knowledge management and data management. So that's one of the hats I'm wearing the other one is We have in Vienna an open knowledge foundation chapter since 2011 and an ODI note now since September 2015 So as you see we're doing a lot of things in that area Open data in Austria. So last year we had a lot of success here You see two things in March we received or the Vienna the city of Vienna team wins the European Innovator Award 2014 you see nearly cross so you didn't see her that morning, but you can see her on my picture here She was in Athens last year And the second thing that was interesting Data GV 80 so the national data portal won the UN prize for public services and it didn't want it because the catalog is so great because We could have much more data in it to be honest that should be open We won it because of the corporation we have in Austria with all the stakeholders involved. So we have industry We have public administrations politicians and also community sorry Community involved in the work on open data and the price we received for this one So what we have in place is public administration is leading. It's pushing the topic. We have a very vital community in place And what was the case one year ago the infrastructure for non-governmental data or non-government data was missing so we started an initiative that is called open data portal AT and It is the central meta data or data portal and catalog for non-government data. So what we tried To bring up here is a little bit the different way that we heard before not using the data But publishing data from industry from NGOs and PO's From cultural heritage so that whole open glam sector from research and science and so on and so forth and bring this with an open license to reuse and So yeah So we put it in place and we launched it in July one year ago And what is very important is it was a very close cooperation again here with the public administration of the national government So it's somehow the sister portal of our national government data portal data TV at and it has the same standards What is very important? So we're using the the whole meta data standard is exactly the same so you can use of both portals the data And then foster interoperability. It's a secan wordpress installation Technically spoken and everything that you find there is under CC by creative comments Attribution license and everything there is nonprofit oriented Who are the project partners? It's on the one hand side the drivers wiki media austria and open knowledge foundation open knowledge now, Austria In cooperation with the cooperation ogd austria the cooperation is all Public administration units and departments that are publishing open data in austria They're in under an umbrella and in this cooperation and we are partnering with it and Interesting wise we were not supported by the national government, but we were supported and that's a little thank you by the Internet Foundation austria so we could really make or establish this portal So what is in it? You can just find it open data portal AT open data and meta data for sure applications A library of data tools that we just started and that is evolving now So that you also if you want to use the data you find the right tools to do so Then news and highlights and the important thing is also it's structured along 14 topics So these 14 topics are the same that we have in the national national data portals are also here You can then say I'm interested in all the data regarding labor And then you can push it out or drop fetch it out of both data portals and set a close cooperation with data GVAT and we have meetups and things like that What we have in place so far and we have started one year ago. I think with 25 data sets and one application We have now 30 350 data sets 27s providers of data Organizations that are publishing this data and seven applications So for example of one political part to be of all the spendings all the incomes and all the outgoing Money inside was a very interesting thing of the the commerce of chamber We have a lot of statistical data that is not available best statistic Austria by the way is open data. So here we could also Do a step forward And then as you see here, we have code list and statistics and financial data We have also product information very simple things like points of interest or such locations of shops and things like that What really worked out and what we fully underestimated is the effort to on the one hand side open the data from Non-government, but on the other hand side then to consult them how to open up that data how to provide machine readable data in an open license So we need a lot of resources and work to go ahead with that That's a short one only so the open data portal the ODP how we call it supports also all the business Cases and sectors that we had have identified as you've seen here so it fosters and supports that area and I'm very quick today. So But that's the most important slide I think so what are the findings so as I said before we absolutely underestimated the effort So this is a nonprofit project So I'm doing this in my spare time and we have a team of ten people that are doing this in the spare time And we can media Austria that is one and a half person. So just to let you know So it's a very small project, but So we needed a lot of time to convince people for example from I don't want to name it from a big US company that is sitting in Austria and we asked them for data They said oh, that's great We raise awareness and visibility of our products We will provide it and then they were sending me the links to the HTML product pages and I said this is not machine readable data So can you send me an XML file and this guy said yes for sure I will and he sent me the export of the HTML in XML with all the design information in and said here You are and you can go ahead with that and I say yeah I think we should have a call together and speak about what machine readable data is so It's a very very big cooperation. So what we've seen here and that's a little bit Yeah, this bullet point here what people really explored or what they see or organizations is that they can play around with their own data When they go and do the step like open data It's very easy to just take a little bit of data like RSS feeds or points of interest or just product data And think about machine readability and how to open that up and what people can do with that to rethink a little bit about that So why are they doing it? They're doing it because They want to raise and create visibility on the one hand side You see the data on the portal so the portal was for example launched in a press conference with the Austrian Chancelry so it was a big thing that we showed everybody but also through the data because that data and their products and their things They're appearing in apps and so they think okay raising this visibility is interesting foster innovation for sure So outsourcing mass customization things like that they can foster and support that We learned that low-hanging fruits first is also here like in government of very easy things So really use your events RSS feeds or things like that and and start with this and then go ahead Maybe with more complex data different data And we we saw that it helps organizations to push data management. So as I said before This big cooperation was not aware about machine readability, but also small Enterprises or organizations NPO's NGOs starting with these things they rethink a little bit the data management They have insight to learn about it and via open data. They really can push that what comes next is one thing that is We want to to foster the cooperation with data publishers more and more So our focus this in the next year is mainly industry and open glam as we have in Austria a lot of Cultural institutions and it falls a little bit under the public sector information directive. We we have a great field We can play with Yeah, push the reuse for sure the use of data So we will do some some hackathons and there will be a national wide Competition on open data competition also at the change of the year where we have a special price of the ODP Means if you use data from the open data portal and from the national data portal and put it together into one application Then we will have a special price on that And there's a new project on the rise with the University of economics and with the tech No with the Danube University. Sorry, Johan if you're here It's called adequate. It's about open data Quality assessment and improvement. So we try to take a look at the open data portals that are in place Stick, see whether data quality is really low Improve that and then give it back to the portals that you can raise the data quality because we think it's a very important issue What is also in place? That little button here that we also did with open knowledge foundation It's called open data inside and that's a parallel initiative where we say okay Everybody who is doing or is dealing with open data in Austria can use that batch No matter if you're publishing it no matter if you're using open data because we see that Yeah, a lot of startups startups for example are making use of open data, but they don't talk about it So we would like to make it visible that they're using open data at the moment We have 60 organizations that you can see on the open data inside comm website You can take this batch put it on your own website and make it visible that you're a supporter and a user of open data So yeah, that's your open data portal Austria So data exchange is requested and we're happy about that and if you have any questions Feel free to answer because I'm trying to speak slowly, but there are still four and four minutes left Thank You Martin for a great whistle-stop tour of the open data portal Austria We have time for a few questions. I'm sure I can see folk here in the audience Remember, please to give your name and your affiliation, please Layla arson from targets I wonder how do you sustain the portal? Financially, that's a good thing my colleague from Wikimedia. She always makes a comparison with the unicorn She says the portal is a good thing and the unicorn is also so we are speaking about a unicorn here and We need to save the good things so she was giving a very similar talk at Wikimedia but used in the unicorn comparison That's a tricky thing and that's it's exactly we're in the middle of it So one on the one hand side we have a little bit of support in this cooperation open government data On the other hand side We are now starting to say and that brings us back to the question of infrastructure who is responsible for an infrastructure In Austria the government is not so we have a lot of budget come So we get a little bit of support, but not a lot what we are doing now as we are going into industry and Economy and then saying okay if you want to support us you can give it So you can just give money to us on the one hand side on the other hand side We have the great thing that we have a very active community that just supports us without receiving any payment for that so Yeah, it's that that's a good question and we did don't have a real solution to be honest on that So we are thinking about business models to keep it sustainable Thank you other questions from the audience this stage Okay, I have a related kind of follow-on question Which is really about the the organizations that have contributed data to this to this portal and The extent to which they're starting to recognize benefits from from a more open approach and from inclusion of their data in the portal Can you comment at all that? Yeah, for sure. I mean different approaches so You've seen one political party for example, so there they have the spending so it's its transparency So that's just and it's something very new for Austria. They're the only party that did that Other one said oh, maybe we should do that, but they didn't do so far So it really makes a difference what is good because it's a very new party on the other hand side the the commerce of chamber for example, they see that they're Their data is used more often in the meantime And and that being open is a very good thing for their members and now they are really also promoting it through the membership so in Austria we have a Mandatory membership in the in the commerce of chambers so every company that that exists there needs to be a member So it's something giving back the data to all the members and they can use it for example And and some of them also as I said raising awareness or visibility, so they're there shops there The points of interest they are now in some applications inside and so hopefully we can't counter a measure it Hopefully that the traffic to the shop. So the people are using this information more and more Great nice example at the end as well. I don't understand why more people don't do this Okay, thanks very much Martin