Speech on the project LinkedStat - http://linkedstat.spaziodati.eu during "Linked Open Data: where are we?" in Rome, held by W3C Italy.

1. LinkedStat
making ISTAT data more valuable

2. WHO & WHY?

3. &

4. Bringing official Istat data into
the Web of Data

5. PHASES OF THE PROJECT

6. first phase
2012
•
XSLT conversion tool from SDMX standard to RDF
Datacube prototype

7. •
Customization of XSLT Sarven Capadisli’s converter and
Linked Data conversion of all I.Stat datawarehouse
•
LinkedStat publication as Linked Data, with SPARQL
endpoint
2013
end first phase

8. second phase
WORK IN PROGRESS
•
2014
Tutorials and use cases on LinkedStat
•
From ★★★★☆ to ★★★★★ data: from
LinkedSTAT to LOD connections

9. FIRST PHASE
PUBLISH I.STAT AS LINKED DATA

10. Linked I.Stat
publication workflow

11. The RDF Datacube
Vocabulary

12. RE
F
O
URI
150 millions of triples over 10 millions
of observations, accessible via a SPARQL
endpoint and a faceted browser.
RDF 4 stars data on
OL
linkedstat.spaziodati.eu

13. Querying LinkedStat Graph
@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> .
}

14. SECOND PHASE
CONNECTING TO LOD

15. LINKING

16. LINKEDSTAT
Unemployment rate
DBPEDIA
it.dbpedia.org/resource/Disoccupazione

17. USE CASES

18. Fact Checking and
data journalism
Integration of
geographical entities
Answering questions like “What political parties
lead in the Italian regions with high use of mass
media in 2010?”

19. dataTXT NEX + LinkedStat
Disoccupazione
powered by LinkedStat

20. FUTURE DIRECTIONS

21. More use cases
More connections between different LOD sources
and LinkedStat data
Examples of data-visualization

22. CREDITS & CONTACTS

23. 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

24. http://linkedstat.spaziodati.eu
#LinkedStat
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