What are politician's decisions about your neighborhood? What does usually happen in my street and what could be done better? In Frankfurt, Germany, there is a website called Frankfurt-Gestalten.de (Create Frankfurt), which makes local political decision more transparent and offers a new space for citizen to participate. The concept is to combine the following dimensions, which hopefully lead to a vibrant engagement:

The Danish IT and Telecomm Agency, ITST, organized a competition to stimulate the re-use of open government data in the fall of 2009, called ODIS. ODIS stands for Offentlige Data i Spil ('bringing public data into play').
Winners were announced at the ODIS conference in Copenhagen on February 4th 2010.

It was three weeks ago when a group of Semantic Web enthusiasts and representatives from various Austrian organisations have met in Vienna to discuss a possible future initiative towards Open Government Linked Data. The output of this first meeting was the decision that we will organize the upcoming Semantic Web Meetup in Vienna with a special focus on Open Government Linked Data.

Polirazzi takes the list of current Members of Parliament, orders them by party affiliation and then proceeds to search in main stream media for any item connected to the MP you select.

A map of all farms hit by Q-fever in the Netherlands compared to the area where mandatory vaccination of goats and sheep took place.

LIBRIS is a national search service with information on titles in Swedish university, college and research libraries and some twenty public libraries. There are books, journals, articles, maps, posters, sheet music, electronic resources, etc.

The database of bibliographic information is available via several APIs, and in multiple formats. The conceptual model is based on international open standards. Through RDF / XML the LIBRIS database is also moving towards becoming part of the Semantic Web.

This database contains all the government bills and letters since 1971. For older records (1993/94 and earlier), the material is scanned and OCR processed, made available in PDF and HTML format. Material between 1994/95 and 2001/02 are only in plain text format where formatting information in the printed material has been lost. From 2002/03 there are bills in PDF format, created directly from original material in digital form. These documents are public domain under Swedish law except for maps etc. contained in these documents.