@article{21-58,2016,

title = {Designing Semantic Application Programming Interfaces for Open Government Data},

author = {Auriol Degbelo and Sergio Trilles-Oliver and Christian Kray and Devanjan Bhattacharya and Nicholas Schiestel and Jonas Wissing and Carlos Granell-Canut},

url = {http://www.jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/420},

isbn = {2075-9517},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-12-01},

journal = {eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government },

volume = {8},

number = {2},

pages = {21-58},

abstract = { Many countries currently maintain a national data catalog, which provides access to the

available datasets – sometimes via an Application Programming Interface (API). These APIs play a

crucial role in realizing the benefits of open data as they are the means by which data is

discovered and accessed by applications that make use of it. This article proposes semantic APIs

as a way of improving access to open data. A semantic API helps to retrieve datasets according to

their type (e.g., sensor, climate, finance), and facilitates reasoning about and learning from

data. The article examines categories of open datasets from 40 European open data catalogs to

gather some insights into types of datasets which should be considered while building semantic

APIs for open government data. The results show that the probability of inter-country agreement

between open data catalogs is less than 30 percent, and that few categories stand out as

candidates for a transnational semantic API. They stress the need for coordination - at the local,

regional, and national level - between data providers of Germany, France, Spain, and the United

Kingdom.},

keywords = {open data, semantic API, user requirements},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}