A Platform for the Reuse of Public Data in Piedmont

• Autore: Anna Cavallo - Claudia Secco - Giuliana Bonello - Saverino Reale - Vittorio di Tomaso - Federico Cairo
• Pagine: 431-444

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A Platform for the Reuse of Public Data in Piedmont

ANNA CAVALL O, CLAU DI A SECC O, GIULIANA BON EL LO

SAVERI NO REA LE, VITTORIO DITOMASO, FEDERICO CAI RO∗

SUMM ARY:1. The Management of Information in the Piedmont Region – 2. The Or-

ganizational Model – 3. The Legal Basis and the Licence System – 4. Technological

Description – 5. Published Data and First Applications Developed – 6. Semantic Web

– 7. Evolution

1. THE MA NAGEMEN T OF INFO RMATIO N IN THE PIEDMONT REGION

In the Piedmont region, information owned and produced by the public

bodies is in its major part managed by CSI-Piemonte, an in-house institution

of the Piedmont PA. The data are collected from more than 80 local gov-

ernments and are structured over more than 1.300 alphanumeric databases,

more than 1.400 geographic databases, 160 databases for decisional support,

and a number of textual databases (deriving from the dematerialisation pro-

cess) and multimedia databases (deriving, for example, from digitalisation

projects such as the Piedmont Digital Library for example). Of course this

amount of information is steadily increasing.

The aim of the project dati.piemonte.it, developed for the Piedmont Re-

gion by CSI-Piemonte, is to provide citizens, researchers, students and busi-

nesses with the opportunity to access this extraordinary wealth of informa-

tion, in digital and open format. This may help to simplify lives of citizens

and to stimulate businesses in creating new services and job opportunities.

2. THE ORGA NIZATI ONA L MOD EL

CSI Piemonte has been working on Open Data since 2004, and the adopt-

ed approach follows the four levels indicated by the European Interoperabil-

ity Framework: the political, organizational, legal and technical-semantic

levels. CSI Piemonte has indeed supported the Piedmont Region to def‌ine a

framework for the reuse of regional Public Sector Information based on the

European guidelines. The political actions taken by Piedmont Region were

∗A. Cavallo, C. Secco, G. Bonello, S. Reale are experts in matter of information systems

for the public administration at CSI Piemonte and respectively work in the f‌ield of data

management and implementation of e-Government projects. V. Di Tomaso is Managing

Director & co-founder at CELI Language & Information Technology. F. Cairo is a Ph.D.

student at Politecnico di Torino and a consultant at CSI Piemonte.