Constructing a knowledge graph for open government data: the case of Nova Scotia disease datasets
Abstract The majority of available datasets in open government data are statistical. They are widely published by various governments to be used by the public and data consumers. However, most open government data portals do not provide the five-star Linked Data standard datasets. The published data...
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| author | Enayat Rajabi Rishi Midha Jairo Francisco de Souza |
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| description | Abstract The majority of available datasets in open government data are statistical. They are widely published by various governments to be used by the public and data consumers. However, most open government data portals do not provide the five-star Linked Data standard datasets. The published datasets are isolated from one another while conceptually connected. This paper constructs a knowledge graph for the disease-related datasets of a Canadian government data portal, Nova Scotia Open Data. We leveraged the Semantic Web technologies to transform the disease-related datasets into Resource Description Framework (RDF) and enriched them with semantic rules. An RDF data model using the RDF Cube vocabulary was designed in this work to develop a graph that adheres to best practices and standards, allowing for expansion, modification and flexible re-use. The study also discusses the lessons learned during the cross-dimensional knowledge graph construction and integration of open statistical datasets from multiple sources. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-468232777d4844ee9789a35bc051a2e02023-04-23T11:32:05ZengBMCJournal of Biomedical Semantics2041-14802023-04-0114111010.1186/s13326-023-00284-wConstructing a knowledge graph for open government data: the case of Nova Scotia disease datasetsEnayat Rajabi0Rishi Midha1Jairo Francisco de Souza2Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton UniversityShannon School of Business, Cape Breton UniversityDepartment of Computer Science, Federal University of Juiz de ForaAbstract The majority of available datasets in open government data are statistical. They are widely published by various governments to be used by the public and data consumers. However, most open government data portals do not provide the five-star Linked Data standard datasets. The published datasets are isolated from one another while conceptually connected. This paper constructs a knowledge graph for the disease-related datasets of a Canadian government data portal, Nova Scotia Open Data. We leveraged the Semantic Web technologies to transform the disease-related datasets into Resource Description Framework (RDF) and enriched them with semantic rules. An RDF data model using the RDF Cube vocabulary was designed in this work to develop a graph that adheres to best practices and standards, allowing for expansion, modification and flexible re-use. The study also discusses the lessons learned during the cross-dimensional knowledge graph construction and integration of open statistical datasets from multiple sources.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-023-00284-wOpen statistical dataNova ScotiaKnowledge graphDisease dataset |
| spellingShingle | Enayat Rajabi Rishi Midha Jairo Francisco de Souza Constructing a knowledge graph for open government data: the case of Nova Scotia disease datasets Journal of Biomedical Semantics Open statistical data Nova Scotia Knowledge graph Disease dataset |
| title | Constructing a knowledge graph for open government data: the case of Nova Scotia disease datasets |
| title_full | Constructing a knowledge graph for open government data: the case of Nova Scotia disease datasets |
| title_fullStr | Constructing a knowledge graph for open government data: the case of Nova Scotia disease datasets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constructing a knowledge graph for open government data: the case of Nova Scotia disease datasets |
| title_short | Constructing a knowledge graph for open government data: the case of Nova Scotia disease datasets |
| title_sort | constructing a knowledge graph for open government data the case of nova scotia disease datasets |
| topic | Open statistical data Nova Scotia Knowledge graph Disease dataset |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-023-00284-w |
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