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Figure 13.2 Portal of Publicdata.eu.

Notably, Publicdata.eu does not only harvest data sets from national open data
portals. Experiments on the integration of advanced Semantic Web technologies to
provide Linked Open Data in the form of Resource Description Framework triples
are ongoing.* As we will discuss further in Section 13.4, raw, open, and linked data
are key to substantially improve the internal and external value for governments at
any level.

13.2.1.5 Research Projects
Whereas the previous initiatives were examples of networks at global and European
scale to exploring exiting cases studies, experiences, and best practices, this sec-
tion takes a complementary perspective and briefly introduces as subset of ongoing
EC-funded research projects with a much narrower scope and focus on ICT than
the aforementioned initiatives.
The Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe † is an
EC-funded Network of Excellence that brings together an extremely diverse set
of organizations and experts. It envisions a long-lived Virtual Centre of Digital
Preservation Excellence to bring coherence, cohesion, and continuity to research and
remove the barriers to long-term accessibility and usability of digital information. ‡

* http://eur-lex.publicdata.eu.
† http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/aparsen.
‡ http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/community/virtual-centre-of-excellence.