Exploratory research project to investigate if data from (authentic) sources can be collected in a structured and integrated fashion to make it available for re-use.

1. Local decisions as
Linked Open Data
#LBLOD

2. Data collec1on for and
by governments …
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… should be easier

3. │3
Data should be easy to re-use …
… available in a structured and linked manner for
companies, ci1zens and governments

4. Local decisions as Linked Open Data
Exploratory research project to inves1gate if data from
(authen1c) sources can be collected in a structured and
integrated fashion to make it available for re-use.
Goal: Local governments publish decisions as linked open
data as part of their normal decision making procedures.
Everyone can use this data directly.

5. Local decisions as Linked Open Data: win-win-
win
Informa1on quality is beJer because data source is an
authen1c source.
Informa1on- and monitoring needs of local and Flemish
governments are beJer served.
No addi1onal repor1ng burdens:
No addi1onal administra1ve effort to register informa1on from local decisions
in other systems (internally as well as externally).
From repor1ng by local governments towards consul1ng by third par1es
The general public also benefits from directly opening up
this informa1on.

6. Clear problem
Interes1ng
opportunity
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Road map?
Solu'on
Feasible in
prac1ce?

7. 7

8. Local decisions as Linked Open
Data
Examples

9. 1. Local codex
2. Mandates
3. Taxa1on
4. Addi1onal municipal regula1ons on road traffic

10. 1. Local codex
2. Mandates
3. Taxa1on
4. Addi1onal municipal regula1ons on road traffic

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Digital local codex
A resource with real life examples
A resource for supervisory
departments, audits, ….
(also on a local level)
Show me all decisions that pertain to
my ‘neighborhood’
What local decisions implement art. x of law y?
Open stadsbestuur-app

12. Codex: Sources
Law
(Flemish
Codex;
Staatsblad;
…)
Local decisions
Information about the
municipality
at local level

13. 1. Local codex
2. Mandates
3. Taxa1on
4. Addi1onal municipal regula1ons on road traffic

14. Data resource with information
about staff and mandates at
municipal level, OCMW’s,
districts and provinces.
Mandates
Who voted how in the past
legislature?
What kind of initiatives did
this mandate take in the
past legislature?

15. 15
Local mandates (except appointment mayor)
Mandates Elected
Informa1on about the
municipality
at local level
Minutes local council
Decision themes:
- mandates
Input for
municipal
process
Output from
municipal
process

16. 1. Local codex
2. Mandates
3. Taxa1on
4. Addi1onal municipal regula1ons on road traffic

17. Taxa1on: Model decision Addi1onal taxes on
‘Personenbelas1ng’ (APB)
Onderstaand model kan gebruikt worden bij de vaststelling van de APB voor één jaar of voor meerdere jaren. Voor meerdere
jaren zie formulering tussen haakjes.
Facultatief:
Enkel indien de beslissing pas in januari van het nieuwe aanslagjaar genomen wordt, dient men artikel 4 mee op te nemen.
Titel: Aanvullende belasting op de Personenbelasting (APB)
Overwegende dat de financiële toestand van de gemeente de invoering
vergt van alle rendabele belastingen;
Gelet op de artikelen 465 tot en met 470bis van het Wetboek van de inkomstenbelastingen;
Gelet op het Gemeentedecreet van 15 juli 2005, zoals gewijzigd;
specific for this decision
re-usable outside this decision

18. BESLUIT:
Art. 1 Voor het aanslagjaar 2xxx (Voor de aanslagjaren 2xxx tot en met 2xxx) wordt een aanvullende belasting gevestigd ten laste van
de rijksinwoners die belastbaar zijn in de gemeente op 1 januari van het aanslagjaar.
Art. 2 De belasting wordt vastgesteld op x % van de overeenkomstig artikel 466 van het Wetboek van de inkomstenbelastingen 1992
berekende grondslag voor hetzelfde aanslagjaar. Deze belasting wordt gevestigd op basis van het inkomen dat de belastingplichtige
heeft verworven in het aan het aanslagjaar voorafgaande jaar.
Art. 3 De vestiging en de inning van de gemeentelijke belasting zullen door het toedoen van het bestuur der directe belastingen
geschieden, zoals bepaald in artikel 469 van het Wetboek van de inkomstenbelastingen.
Om te voorkomen dat besluiten pas na januari effectief in werking zouden treden moet bij alle besluiten tot vaststelling van de APB die
eind januari / in januari genomen worden volgende bepaling toegevoegd worden:
Art. 4 Dit besluit treedt heden in werking.
Art. 5 Deze verordening wordt naar de toezichthoudende overheid gezonden.

19. 1. Local codex
2. Mandates
3. Taxa1on
4. Addi1onal municipal regula1ons on road traffic

20. Addi1onal municipal regula1ons on road traffic
contains a ‘unique municipal identifier’
choose from adress register and link to
correct address key
from source ‘road types’
Interactive Regulation Generator

21. Create addi1onal municipal regula1on in 4 steps
1. Find road sign Linked with road sign
database

22. 2. Select measure
Road sign B1

23. 3. Fill out details

24. 4. Overview regulation
‘adress 1’
‘adress 2’

25. Town Aartselaar
Location ‘Adress 1’
Location ‘Adress 2’
Local decision
9 dec 2013
‘Aartselaar/2’
Urban development
Priority measure
Mandates
Road sign B1
Road marking 76.2

26. Addi1onal municipal regula1ons on road traffic: sources
Road sign database
Local decisions
information on municipality
at local level
Addresses (CRAB)Mandates
‘Adress 1’
‘Adress 2’
Mandates
Decision themes
Traffic regulation
Artikel 76.2
Minutes ‘college
burgemeester en
schepenen’
Road types
‘... enkel
gemeente-
wegen’

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28. 28
WHAT IF …
LOCAL DECISIONS
ARE AVAILABLE AS
LINKED OPEN DATA ?

29. 29
WORK TOWARDS A 3-MINUTE
ELEVATOR PITCH
WHAT IF … LOCAL DECISIONS ARE AVAILABLE AS LINKED OPEN DATA?
WHAT KIND OF SERVICE, WEBSITE, ‘KILLER’ APP WOULD YOU DEVELOP
BASED ON THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN LOCAL DECISIONS?
FOR WHOM? (CITIZENS, (LOCAL) GOVERNMENT, COMPANIES …)
WHAT KIND OF ‘VALUE’ PROPOSITION?
CHOOSE A TOPIC: MOBILITY, TAXATION, CULTURE, MANDATES, LOCAL
CODEX, …
START FROM A ‘BLUE SKY’/BEST CASE SCENARIO: ALL YOUR
ASSUMPTIONS ARE EXPECTED TO TURN IN YOUR FAVOUR AND ARE
EXPECTED TO LEAD TO THE BEST POSSIBLE RESULT

30. AVOID
‘IDEA
KILLERS’!

31. Exploratory phase: goals
Explore prac1ces and procedures at local level to gain insight in
feasibility and condi1ons that need to be met in order to open
up local decisions as linked open data. Emphasis is on
integrability of the poten1al solu1ons in local processes and on
learning the addi1onal costs.
Inves1gate the return/gain in terms of re-use (in specific at local
level)
Prove the concept in a tangible way by working with a fixed set
of local decisions as well as by publishing these decisions as
linked open data.