What is it about?
LinkedSpending adds government spending data to the Semantic Web.
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Why is it important?
Public spending services satisfy basic information needs, but in their current form they do not allow queries which go further than simple keyword search or which cannot be answered with data from one system alone.Transforming OpenSpending to Linked Data and publishing it adds to and profits from the Semantic Web, which offers benefits including a standardized interface, easier data integration and complex queries over multiple knowledge bases.
Perspectives
You can read the preprint for free at http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2013/openspending2rdf/public.pdf. LinkedSpending is a project of the research group “Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web” (AKSW) which is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). The OpenBudgets project plans to supersede LinkedSpending at the end of 2016.
Konrad Höffner
Universitat Leipzig
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: LinkedSpending: OpenSpending becomes Linked Open Data, Semantic Web, March 2015, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/sw-150172.
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Resources
LinkedSpending SPARQL Endpoint
Public SPARQL endpoint to query the LinkedSpending datasets.
Preprint
The final submitted revision.
Short Presentation
Motivation, source data, conversion and exemplary SPARQL queries.
OpenSpending Community Blog Post
Blog post about LinkedSpending by OpenSpending Community member Anders Pedersen.
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