[open-energy] Europe's Energy - reegle (renewable energy gateway) cooperation

Mon Feb 7 09:49:30 GMT 2011

Dear all

First of all let me congratulate you and the OKFN team on the launch of 
energy.publicdata.eu. It is a fantastic and easy to use tool and we 
already received a lot of positive feedback from the readers of our blog 
(http://blog.reegle.info) on the article about Europe's Energy website I 
wrote last Friday.

I am working for the "Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency 
Partnership" (REEEP - http://www.reeep.org) - we are a non-profit NGO, 
funded by Governments to do projects on Renewables and Energy 
Efficiency. In our workplan for 2011 we have a lot of activities in the 
(linked) open data field, as we are a strong supporter of this idea. Our 
aim is to support opening up further data on energy, provide relevant 
energy data from us in this format and use data from the LOD cloud to 
enrich our content. We use our information dissemination tool / search 
engine http://www.reegle.info to do this - for some examples from 
reegle, see below.

We are therefore very much interested in any kind of cooperation with 
you, especially on data visualisation in the area of energy / renewables 
/ climate change and development and I hope we can do some projects 
together in 2011. I would be happy to discuss any opportunities and hope 
we can do some projects together this year.

One question on the visualisations on energy.publicdata.eu. Is it 
planned/wanted that your tool is integrated in other websites (as a 
widget or something similar?)

Some LOD examples from reegle (we are currently re-structuring the whole 
site, to guarantee a smooth and userfriendly integration of the rdf 
views and the data portal, this new structure will be launched in April):
Actors (Stakeholders) - REEEP as example:
Website: 
http://www.reegle.info/actors/2354/renewable-energy-and-energy-efficiency-partnership.htm
RDF: 
http://www.reegle.info/actors/2354/renewable-energy-and-energy-efficiency-partnership.rdf
Data Structure: http://data.reegle.info/developers/actor

Country Profiles:
We enrich our country profiles with data from data.worldbank.org, 
data.un.org (coming soon) and dbpedia and add our data on energy policy 
and regulation. Example: China: http://www.reegle.info/countries/CN
RDF of policy data: http://reegle.info/profiles/149.rdf (we have to do 
some tweaks on the rdf url here)
Data Structure of policy data: http://data.reegle.info/developers/profile

Using Eurostat data on our map to visualise energy statistics:
http://www.reegle.info/map/ and select a dataset from the statistics 
dropdown. There is also a possibilitiy to animate the changes over the 
past 10 years (click on "animation" after selecting a statistic, then 
select one or two countries and press play)

Coming soon:
Project outputs (toolkits) - already available on data.reegle.info 
(http://data.reegle.info/developers/projectoutput 
<http://data.reegle.info/developers/projectoutput>) - will also be part 
of our country profiles.
Our SKOS Thesaurus on renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate 
change (currently only available as html view, see 
http://www.reegle.info/glossary/504 as example for "tidal energy" - 
integration into data.reegle.info will be online next week.

Best regards
Florian

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Florian Bauer
Operations&  IT Manager

REEEP International Secretariat
Vienna International Centre D1738
Wagramer Strasse 5
A-1400 Vienna, Austria

Tel:    + 43 1 26026 3714
Fax:    + 43 1 21346 3714
Mobile: + 43 664 418 21 06
florian.bauer at reeep.org

Internet:www.reeep.org  andwww.reegle.info  

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