[open-government] Russian government public spending data (www.rosspending.ru)

[Ivan Begtin]

Dear Sören,
   I am personally like Linked Data and Semantic web ideas very much.
   A few months ago I even modelled russian geopolitical ontology based on
FAO similar ontology and now it's publicly available
       here http://schema.opengovdata.ru/core/regions.owl and I advocated
using Semantic Web and Linked Data for some of
   coming government and non-profit project.

    Here in Russia we have a few little communities related to ontologies,
semantic web and so on, but we don't have any education center or research
groups that could help to make idea of Linked Data influental. And this is a
problem, since for now I at least can explain decision makers and officials
that open data is valueble resource for common good but it's nearly
impossible to explain why it's important to create metadata usable for
everybody as Linked Data.

So to be honest, there is a chance that OpenGovData.ru will provide Linked
Data metadata, but for other projects like public government spending it's
less likely. At least this year.


Best Regards,
   Ivan Begtin

2010/7/13 Sören Auer <auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>

> Dear Ivan,
>
> this looks very impressive and seems to catapult Russia to the forefront of
> open public data. One question, which is crucial, once we aim to integrate
> and align different national datasets is whether the (meta-)data is
> available as Linked Data as well? It would be great if you could advocate
> the use of Linked Data for publishing open data in Russia a little. We
> should also stay in touch once the publishing of open governmental data
> gains more traction in Europe.
>
> Keep up the great work!
>
> Sören
>
>
>
> On 10.07.2010 8:20, Ivan Begtin wrote:
>
>> Dear all.
>>
>> I have a little big announcement about open data in Russia.
>>
>> I would like to introduce first russian public spending monitoring
>> project - http://www.rosspending.ru .
>> It includes information about 1 400 000 federal contracts, about 210 000
>> contracts of regional governments.
>> Information about more than 260 000 suppliers and 26 000 customers.
>>
>>
>> Lots of reports:
>> -  major industry suppliers -
>> http://www.rosspending.ru/reports/contractors/
>> - contracts with too short timeframe -
>> http://www.rosspending.ru/reports/common/ctrmindates/
>> - list of suppliers that depends "too much" on major customers and who
>> gets most money from sole source -
>> http://www.rosspending.ru/reports/common/suppaffilation/
>> - major IT contracts - http://www.rosspending.ru/reports/it/ittop/
>>
>> Also we provide information about 1306 Russian President grants -
>> http://www.rosspending.ru/grants/oprf/
>>
>>
>> This project was initiated by Institute of Contemporary Development
>> (http://www.insor-russia.ru/en/_about_us) and launched publicly 2 days
>> ago during "Tver economic forum"
>>
>> I represent small software development company behind this project and
>> as e-Gov evangelist and public spending specialist I am project manager
>> of this project.
>>
>> It's all based on public open data about russian spending which being
>> disclosed last 3 years by Federal Treasury. We just used this open data
>> to provide all good people of Russia new view on government public
>> spending.
>>
>>
>> P.S. Google Translate could help a lot to read all those russian texts
>>
>> http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.rosspending.ru&sl=ru&tl=en
>> <
>> http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.rosspending.ru&sl=ru&tl=en
>> >
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>    Ivan Begtin
>>
>> http://www.opengovdata.ru
>> http://www.rosspending.ru
>>
>>
>>
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С уважением,
  Иван Бегтин
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