LinkedStat: making ISTAT data more valuable

making ISTAT data more valuable

LinkedStat

WHO & WHY?

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Bringing official Istat data into the Web of Data

PHASES OF THE PROJECT

• XSLT conversion tool from SDMX standard to RDF Datacube prototype

2012

first phase

2013

• Customization of XSLT Sarven Capadisli’s converter and Linked Data conversion of all I.Stat datawarehouse

• LinkedStat publication as Linked Data, with SPARQL endpoint

end first phase

2014

• Tutorials and use cases on LinkedStat

• From ★★★★☆ to ★★★★★ data: from

LinkedSTAT to LOD connections

second phase WORK IN PROGRESS

FIRST PHASEPUBLISH I.STAT AS LINKED DATA

Linked I.Stat

publication workflow

The RDF Datacube Vocabulary

150 millions of triples over 10 millions

of observations, accessible via a SPARQL

endpoint and a faceted browser.

RDF 4 stars data on

linkedstat.spaziodati.eu

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REOF

URI

@prefix qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#> .

!SELECT DISTINCT ?observation

WHERE {

?observation rdf:type qb:Observation .

?observation qb:dataSet <http://

linkedstat.spaziodati.eu/dataset/32_38> .

}

Querying LinkedStat Graph

SECOND PHASECONNECTING TO LOD

LINKING

Unemployment rateLINKEDSTAT

it.dbpedia.org/resource/DisoccupazioneDBPEDIA

USE CASES

Answering questions like “What political parties lead in the Italian regions with high use of mass

media in 2010?”

Integration of geographical entities

Fact Checking and data journalism

Disoccupazione

powered by LinkedStat

dataTXT NEX + LinkedStat

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

More use cases

More connections between different LOD sources and LinkedStat data

Examples of data-visualization

CREDITS & CONTACTS

Tatiana Tarasova

Vincenzo Patruno

Matteo Brunati

SpazioDati Team

ISTAT internal working group

Article designed by Desbenoit from the Noun Project

Italy designed by Juan Pablo Bravo from the Noun Project

Question designed by SuperAtic LABS from the Noun Project

Play designed by José Campos from the Noun Project

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