• Data Quality Barriers for Transparency in Public Procurement 

      Soylu, Ahmet; Corcho, Oscar; Elvesæter, Brian; Badenes-Olmedo, Carlos; Yedro Martínez, Francisco; Kovavic, Matej; Posinkovic, Matej; Medvescek, Mitja; Makgill, Ian; Taggart, Chris; Simperl, Elena; Lech, Till Christopher; Roman, Dumitru (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Governments need to be accountable and transparent for their public spending decisions in order to prevent losses through fraud and corruption as well as to build healthy and sustainable economies. Open data act as a major ...
    • The euBusinessGraph ontology: A lightweight ontology for harmonizing basic company information 

      Roman, Dumitru; Alexiev, Vladimir; Paniagua, Javier; Elvesæter, Brian; Zernichow, Bjørn Marius von; Soylu, Ahmet; Simeonov, Boyan; Taggart, Chris (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Company data, ranging from basic company information such as company name(s) and incorporation date to complex balance sheets and personal data about directors and shareholders, are the foundation that many data value ...
    • An overview of the TBFY knowledge graph for public procurement 

      Soylu, Ahmet; Elvesæter, Brian; Turk, Philip; Roman, Dumitru; Corcho, Oscar; Simperl, Elena; Makgill, Ian; Taggart, Chris; Grobelnik, Marko; Lech, Till Christopher (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A growing amount of public procurement data is being made available in the EU for the purpose of improving the effectiveness, efficiency, transparency, and accountability of government spending. However, there is a large ...
    • TheyBuyForYou platform and knowledge graph: Expanding horizons in public procurement with open linked data 

      Soylu, Ahmet; Corcho, Oscar; Elvesæter, Brian; Badenes-Olmedo, Carlos; Blount, Tom; Yedro Martínez, Francisco; Kovavic, Matej; Posinkovic, Matej; Makgill, Ian; Taggart, Chris; Simperl, Elena; Lech, Till Christopher; Roman, Dumitru (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Public procurement is a large market affecting almost every organisation and individual; therefore, governments need to ensure its efficiency, transparency, and accountability, while creating healthy, competitive, and ...
    • Towards a Knowledge Graph Based Platform for Public Procurement 

      Simperl, Elena; Corcho, Oscar; Grobelnik, Marko; Roman, Dumitru; Soylu, Ahmet; Ruíz, María Jesús Fernández; Gatti, Stefano; Taggart, Chris; Klima, Urška Skok; Uliana, Annie Ferrari; Makgill, Ian; Lech, Till Christopher (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Procurement affects virtually all sectors and organizations particularly in times of slow economic recovery and enhanced transparency. Public spending alone will soon exceed EUR 2 trillion per annum in the EU. Therefore, ...
    • Towards Integrating Public Procurement Data into a Semantic Knowledge Graph 

      Soylu, Ahmet; Corcho, Oscar; Simperl, Elena; Roman, Dumitru; Francisco, Yedro Martínez; Taggart, Chris; Makgill, Ian; Elvesæter, Brian; Symonds, Ben; McNally, Helen; Konstantinidis, George; Zhao, Yuchen; Lech, Till Christopher (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Public procurement accounts for a substantial part of the public investment and global economy. Therefore, improving effectiveness, efficiency, transparency and accountability of government procurement is of broad interest. ...