Title: Towards Linked Open Government Data

Abstract: We believe just having Open Data is not enough. We get too much bad data, data that consumes too much developer time to be transformed into useful data. We work on taking raw government data and transforming it into Linked Data and we also work on making this process as automatic as possible. We take a look in this presentation at tools, methodologies, semantic vocabularies and the workflow we need to implement. We also discuss some examples and the benefits of offering Linked Data to the community. We take a look at how Linked Data is used in Open Data around the world and we focus on the changes we implement in Romania.