Open Data for the Government of Aragon (2018)

General project data

  • Description: ORDER IIU/2281/2017, of December 28, by which the Technological Institute of Aragon is entrusted with the realization in 2018 of activities related to the opening of data from Government of Aragon.
  • Bulletin No.: 8.
  • Issuing body: Department of Innovation, Research and University.
  • Date of award: 28/12/2017.
  • Date of publication: 11/01/2018.
  • Dates of execution: 11/01/2018 31/12/2018.

Presentation and objectives

With the objectives of creating economic value in the ICT sector through the reuse of public information, increase transparency in the use of public information and the Administration, promote innovation, improve the systems of information and generate data interoperability. between public sector web sites, are attributed to the Department of Innovation, Research and University, the competences of elaboration and project and program management for the design and coordination of the data openness in the Government of Aragon and its implementation in collaboration with the different Departments and agencies of the Regional Administration, as well as the dissemination of such data through of the open data portal of the Government of Aragon(opendata.aragon.es). Aragon Open Data started the project of opening public data by Agreement of July 17, 2012 of the Government of Aragon, and on February 6 of 2013 the Portal opendata.aragon.es was presented. Throughout this time, numerous works have been carried out that allow the incorporation of new data and information available to third parties (citizens, companies, etc.). Today, the complex casuistry of the regional public administration in the generation of data and information is reflected in the proliferation of a large number of websites, subdomains and portals under aragon.es or not related to this domain, circumstances that hinder the access and use of the information by users and by the services of the Government of Aragón. For this reason, given the number of current websites, domains and portals of the Government of Aragon and by virtue of the competences to improve the information systems of the Administration; to generate data interoperability between public sector and adoption websites of technical standards in the field of information society, and in the particularly those related to interoperability, it is considered necessary that all institutional information and information related to the autonomous administration existing on the web, can be compiled for to be offered from a single point, regardless of the domain, structure, or possibilities of the different current portals. Based on this approach, and on the competence of the opening of the data in the Government of Aragon, during 2017, from the General Directorate of e-Government and the Information Society, it is the Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón to study the feasibility of the retrieve all the institutional information offered on the website applying web crawling, spidering, or spidering techniques on the existing domains of the Government of Aragon, so that it could be exploited, analyzed and reused, and serve to third parties (other institutional websites , media, developers, or citizens) in a structured and controlled way, being Aragon Open Data the point of access for this purpose. Likewise, the information obtained was intended to be used to be able to verify, and if necessary enrich, through real and practical cases, the operation of the Interoperable Information Schema of Aragon (EI2A) and the ontology http://opendata.aragon.es/def/ei2a/index.htm. In view of the results obtained, the feasibility of the proposed prototype has been observed and new aspects have been detected in which it is necessary to continue exploring. Therefore, it is intended, on the one hand, to put the prototyped system into operation and, on the other hand, to analyze new possibilities. To this end, it is necessary to incorporate the prototype to a production system implemented in the infrastructures of Aragonesa de Servicios Telemáticos (AST), to develop on the aforementioned prototype system with language recognition services (and other cognitive services) with the challenge of understanding natural questions asked by a user and know what to answer, researching new services in the line of extracting knowledge from the unstructured information that the Government of Aragon has available, and continue to expand and evolve the Information Schema Interoperable Aragon (EI2A) with the definition of new concepts and relationships based on the information processed as a consequence of the actions indicated The work proposed follows in part the lines developed in the Order IIU/776/2017, of May 25, which entrusts the Technological Institute of Aragon (ITAINNOVA) the execution in 2017 of activities related to the opening of data of the Government of Aragon, being in that case complementary to this one, at the time exploring new lines. Their execution requires a highly specialized knowledge in the field of Artificial Intelligence, cognitive systems and semantic ontologies.

Entities entrusted with the performance of tasks

Project results

ITAINNOVA’s actions are focused on:

  • Coordination, management, planning and direction of the work of the assignment throughout its development, to ensure that the execution and delivery of results are carried out in the pre-established time and within the agreed budgets , to ensure the quality of the work and documentation delivered and to coordinate the cooperation between the team members.
  • Preparation of an analysis report on the possible information capture services to improve and develop for the extraction of unstructured information from the Government of Aragón.
  • Preparation of a general design report of the system architecture to support the selected experimental capture prototypes.
  • Development of prototypes and proofs of concept of information capture services, according to the analysis report and the design of the architecture of the system to be developed to cover the selected information capture services . The development is responsible for the improvement/development of information capture algorithms to extract unstructured information, the improvement/development of textural information processing workflows captured (categorization, application of data mining techniques and text treatments for the extraction of concepts through Artificial Intelligence techniques, storage of the information at through Big Data technologies/databases) and the development of semantic tools that allow the exploitation of the captured information.
  • Technical support to the General Directorate of Electronic Administration and Information Society in its projects related to the integration of information capture services and semantic tools.
  • Development of a cognitive model of analysis and comprehension of questions, at as a prototype with natural language recognition services (and other cognitive services), which allows to understand through natural language a question asked and generate an appropriate answer to context, content of the knowledge base generated and based on the Interoperable Information Scheme of Aragon (EI2A).
  • Integration of the cognitive model within the architecture deployed in the project, allowing the web service to understand the questions and make the Open Data project more powerful.
  • Adaptation and improvement of the semantic model Interoperable Information Schema of Aragon (EI2A) to homogeneously structure the basic data collected at through the selected capture services, and to define relationships between them and properties in order to standardize information, automate its access and reuse it.
  • Elaboration of the technical catalog of standards used in the EI2A so that its use has an impact on the improvement of the capacity of the Government of Aragon to cooperate with other Administrations and with the citizens, facilitating the exercise of the right of access to public information and the socioeconomic development of Aragon.
  • Incorporation of data collected in Aragón Open Data through the analysis of the information extracted through the selected capture services and theanalysis of the way in which data can be published through the Aragón Open Data API.
  • Technical support in aspects of the Interoperable Information Scheme of Aragon (EI2A) for other possible proposals/projects in progress of the Government of Aragon that must structure information according to this scheme.
  • Testing to verify and validate that all functionalities defined and developed meet the needs of the Government of Aragon.
  • Deployment of the Big Data system and infrastructure (software and/or information capture services, databases NoSQL, web services, Big Data cluster for processing and storing information through the use of Spark technology, etc.) in ITAINNOVA servers.
  • Transfer of the developments carried out in the infrastructure of the Government of Aragon (AST) once the system deployed in ITAINNOVA infrastructure is sufficiently stable
  • Transfer of the system through the elaboration of a data plan report where it will be specified the way in which the collected data will be transferred, stored and managed, as well as and the requirements of the machines in production.
  • Dissemination of the system through the organization of two dissemination days to publicize the work carried out.

Budget

  • ITAINNOVA budget: 115.200

For the performance of the tasks entrusted, the Department of Innovation, Research and University will allocate to ITAINNOVA the amount of 115,200 (one hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred euros), which will be charged to the budget applications .

  • 17040 G/5424/609000/91001 in the amount of 40,050
  • 17040 G/5424/609000/14201 in the amount of 40,050
  • 17040 G/5424/227006/91001 in the amount of 17,550
  • 17040 G/5424/227006/14201 in the amount of $17,550

and PEP 2012/000354, of the Budget of expenditure of the Autonomous Community of Aragon for the year 2018, subject to the existence of appropriate and sufficient credit of the two applications. This action is eligible for funding under the Program Operational ERDF 2014-2020, in the priority axis 2 of Improving the use and quality of ICT and access to them.

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