Freedom of Information Act Wikifoiawiki.org.uk

Iain R. LearmonthJohnny McKenzie

Tom Jones

22nd June 2014Code the City Aberdeen 2014

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What did exist?

Aberdeen City Council publish a FOI disclosure log but it is not searchableand rather difficult to navigate.

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Improvements needed

Make searchable

Allow crowdsourced tagging

Aggregate disclosures from multiple sources

Allow re-use of the data

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Identifying data

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Building schemas

Web Ontology Language (OWL)

MySQL

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Documenting the schema

Using LODE1:

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Publishing linked data

Using D2R Server2:

map:InformationRequests a d2rq:ClassMap;

d2rq:dataStorage map:database;

d2rq:uriPattern "request/@@request.publicBodyId@@/@@request.requestId|urlify@@";

d2rq:class foia:InformationRequest;

.

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An Example Frontend

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irl@fsfe.org

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