The attached report presents the outcome of a study on Linked Open Government Data (LOGD), a set of principles for publishing, linking and accessing open government data as a service on the Web. The study was commissioned by the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme of the European Commission to address the following research topics:

the value of LOGD for businesses, citizens, and public administrations; the cost structures behind the provision of LOGD; the revenue streams linked to the consumption of LOGD services; and enablers and barriers with regard to the value creation of LODG.

The report provides a theoretical framework to analyse the LOGD ecosystem. It identifies 37 cases in which public administrations have used LOGD to make open government data available as a service on the Web. 14 cases have been selected for further analysis. The selected case studies are:

Austria: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP);

Germany: German National Library (DNB);

European Union: Europeana;

European Union: European Commission Directorate-General Health and Consumers (DG SANCO);

European Union: European Environment Agency (EEA);

European Union: Publications Office of the European Union (OP);

Italy: Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale (AgID);

United Kingdom: BBC;

United Kingdom: Companies House;

United Kingdom: Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA);

United Kingdom: National Archives;

United Kingdom: OpenCorporates;

United Kingdom: Ordnance Survey (OS); and

International: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Related work

To know more about ISA Action 1.1

SEMIC webpage on Joinup:http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semantic-interoperability-community-semic

ISA programme website: http://ec.europa.eu/isa/

Nature of documentation: Technical report