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Figure 12.5 SPCData web portal.

working groups on semantic interoperability (European Commission, 2013). At
the national level, it was often referred as a demo showcase to show best practices
to Italian PAs. The portal exposes the Linked Open IPA data set, its related ontol-
ogy, and a set of services we implemented for demonstration purposes. The portal
is simple in its structure; it consists of three principal sections that enable direct
access to the contents: data, SPARQL endpoint, and services* (Figure 12.5). These
sections are described in the next subsections.

12.5.1 Data Section

Along with the publication of the entire IPA, we also share the RDF of single
pieces of it (Figure 12.6). This allows us to provide end-users with a limited view
of the whole data set (e.g., an end-user might be interested in downloading the
data regarding PAs' offered services, only). Note that we also publish comma-
separate value files, obtained from the IPA database dump, to collect in one single
point all types of open data concerning IPA and then simplify the discovery of
data sets. In addition to the data, this section of the portal includes the ontology
that describes the RDF Linked Open IPA. All the data are subject to CC-BY-SA
Creative Commons license, whose peculiar rights are specified within the RDF
data set. Note that there exist a variety of licenses for data (e.g., Open Data
Commons Attribution License, 2012; Open Data Commons Public Domain
Dedication and License, 2012). Our reasons for choosing to use CC-BY-SA are
twofold: First, it is compliant to the Italian Open Data license commonly used
in our country, and second, it is sufficiently unrestricted to allow us to promote a
larger data utilization as possible.

* The portal is currently delivered in Italian as it is intended to offer public services to Italian
stakeholders.