Linked Open Data for the Italian PA: The CNR Experience
Aldo Gangemi, Enrico Daga, Alberto Salvati, Gianluca Troiani, Claudio Baldassarre · Informatica e diritto · 2011
An information system for organizations is traditionally thought as a mere technical tool for automation and management of administrative activities. In a scenario where semantic technologies are consistently proving that this idea is too restrictive, we want to reinforce the semantic web vision of aggregative information systems. We present the Semantic Scout, a software framework that offers semantic support to functionalities such as competence finding, social network discovery, etc. The need for the Semantic Scout is motivated by the quest to provide a flexible decision making support within large organization, and in particular to support expert finding and project management. This is a common requirement within any organization with many stakeholders who are required to work in synergy, and to exploit internal resources, before looking for external competences. The hypothesis at the basis of this work is that the use of semantic technology, and in particular semantic search, automatic text categorization, linked data and ontologies, can make that requirement more easily achievable. In principle, the hypothesis is sensible for two reasons: firstly because semantic technology decouples knowledge from implemented systems, so that data can be consumed in ways closer to specific requirements or new scenarios; secondly, because semantic technology ex