1. Applying Linked Open Data
to Public Procurement
Experiences from the LOD2 project
Jindřich Mynarz (@jindrichmynarz)
PSI Group meeting
January 24, 2013
2. LOD2 project
EU FP7 research project advancing linked
open data to the next level.
Duration: 09/2010 - 08/2014
Coordinator: AKSW,
University of Leipzig
http://lod2.eu/
6. Our domain
17,3 %
of EU's GDP
http://bit.ly/lod2-wp9a
7. Our tasks
● Publishing
● Matchmaking
● Analytics
prolonging the life-cycle
of public procurement data
8. Vision:
Distributed marketplace for public contracts
● Defragmentation of
public procurement
data
● Enable supply to
meet demand in an
open, linked data
infrastructure
Shopping Cart designed by Eray Kula from The Noun Project
10. Tools developed
● Strigil
○ screen-scraping, data extraction
● ODCleanStore
○ cleaning and linking data
● Public contracts filing app (mockup)
○ publishing and matchmaking data
19. Why does it matter?
● Transparency: contracting in public
● Openness leads to fair competition
● Efficient resource allocation: potential for
cost savings
● Better data better procurement