Raising interoperability among base registries : the evolution of the Linked Base Registry for addresses in Flanders

dc.contributor.authorBuyle, Raf
dc.contributor.authorVanlishout, Ziggy
dc.contributor.authorCoetzee, Serena Martha
dc.contributor.authorDe Paepe, Dieter
dc.contributor.authorVan Compernolle, Mathias
dc.contributor.authorThijs, Geert
dc.contributor.authorVan Nuffelen, Bert
dc.contributor.authorDe Vocht, Laurens
dc.contributor.authorMechant, Peter
dc.contributor.authorDe Vidts, Bjorn
dc.contributor.authorMannens, Erik
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-09T12:39:01Z
dc.date.issued2018-11
dc.description.abstractThe transformation of society towards a digital economy and government austerity creates a new context leading to changing roles for both government and private sector. Boundaries between public and private services are blurring, enabling government and private sector to collaborate and share responsibilities. In Belgium, the regional Government of Flanders embedded the re-use of public sector information in its legislation and published a data portal containing well over 4000 Open Datasets. Due to a lack of interoperability, interconnecting and interpreting these sources of information remain challenges for public administrations, businesses and citizens. To dissolve the boundaries between the data silos, the Flemish government applied Linked Data design principles in an operational public sector context. This paper discusses the trends we have identified while ‘rewiring’ the Authentic Source for addresses to a Linked Base Registry. We observed the impact on multiple interoperability levels; namely on the legal, organisational, semantic and technical level. In conclusion Linked Data can increase semantic and technical interoperability and lead to a better adoption of government information in the public and private sector. We strongly believe that the insights from the past thirteen years in the region of Flanders could speed up processes in other countries that are facing the complexity of raising technical and semantic interoperability.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentGeography, Geoinformatics and Meteorologyen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2019-11-08
dc.description.librarianhj2019en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThis paper is related to the projects ‘OSLO and CRAB as Linked Open Data’ and the ‘Flemish Building Registry’, funded by Flanders Information Agency, Belgium and the program Flanders Radically Digital, Belgium. The research activities in this article were funded by IMEC Ghent University, Belgium.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.elsevier.com/locate/websemen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationR. Buyle, Z. Vanlishout, S. Coetzee et al., Raising interoperability among base registries: The evolution of the Linked Base Registry for addresses in Flanders, Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2018.10.003. NYP.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1570-8268
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.websem.2018.10.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/68114
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherElsevieren_ZA
dc.rights© 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Web Semantics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Web Semantics, vol. , pp. , 2018. doi : 10.1016/j.websem.2018.10.003.en_ZA
dc.subjectAddress registryen_ZA
dc.subjectE-governmenten_ZA
dc.subjectLinked open dataen_ZA
dc.subjectOntologyen_ZA
dc.subjectSemantic interoperabilityen_ZA
dc.subjectSemantic weben_ZA
dc.subjectInteroperabilityen_ZA
dc.subjectTechnical interoperabilityen_ZA
dc.subjectSources of informationen_ZA
dc.subjectPublic sector informationen_ZA
dc.subjectPublic and private sectoren_ZA
dc.subjectGovernment informationen_ZA
dc.subjectPublic administrationen_ZA
dc.subjectGovernment data processingen_ZA
dc.subjectData handlingen_ZA
dc.titleRaising interoperability among base registries : the evolution of the Linked Base Registry for addresses in Flandersen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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