Publishing & Visualizing Open Data

Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love RDF Cubes

Who & What?

Mostly Swiss government showcases

Plus some love from City of Zurich

A lot of showcases, only few details

They are not that interesting, talk to us for those!

Backend & RDF DevOps by Zazuko

Visualization by Interactive Things

With some exceptions

Showcase

Electricity Pricing Switzerland (ElCom)

Raw Data Access

Via SPARQL

Showcase

Epizootic Diseases (BLV)

aka Animal Diseases

What do those showcases have in common?

Data on Swiss LINDAS Platform

Data in RDF Cubes

RDF Cube Schema by Zazuko

A generic visualization platform

visualize.admin.ch

A web based data curation tool

Cube Creator

There were some setbacks on the way there...

Generic visualization is very hard

Failure is success in progress

Showcase

visualize.admin.ch

LLM PoC by Liip

Visualization already needs some skills

But this was the easy part...

Showcase

Cube Creator

TL;DR

Metadata, Metadata, Metadata!

Cube Creator & Visualize are Open Source

Next phase of development just starts

New users are very welcome!

I'm Adrian Gschwend

From Zazuko GmbH

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