Linked data for the Norwegian state of estate reporting service

Abstract

The Norwegian State of Estate (SoE) report includes information about all Norwegian state-owned properties and buildings in the public sector and aims to assist government decision makers to allocate resources more effectively. A Linked Data based approach is presented here to increase the transparency in the government administration, improve the report generating process and also the report quality. Cross- domain government data originated from the business entity register, the cadastral system, the building accessibility register and the old SoE report are acquired, prepared, cleaned, transformed to Linked Data format and published. The source datasets are then integrated, augmented and interlinked before the results are published as a SPARQL endpoint, used for data visualization and report generation.