[Fiware-technical-committee] IDRA - New FIWARE GE(i) candidacy from Engineering

Davide Dalle Carbonare davide.dallecarbonare at eng.it
Tue Jul 24 12:13:40 CEST 2018


Dear TSC colleagues,
  I'm glad to forward you the message below with the request from
Engineering to incorporate a new software component in the FIWARE
technology stack.

While waiting for the presentation of this service, to schedule as soon as
we resume our weekly telcos in September, you can find a number of
resources already available (attached and listed at the end of the message)
in order to satisfy your curiosity.

Looking forward to receiving comments from you, I wish you all the best for
the summer break.
BR
Davide

PS. @Stefano, can you kindly send me the link to the web form to comply
with the rules of the official submission? ... thanks a million.


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Martino Maggio <martino.maggio at eng.it>

Dear FIWARE TSC,

I am Martino Maggio, Senior Researcher of Engineering Ingegneria
Informatica. With this mail I want to submit to your attention an open
source software, developed by Engineering R&D lab in H2020 projects (in
particular FESTIVAL - http://www.festival-project.eu/).

The component is "Idra - Open Data Federation Platform" and has the
objective to federate and harmonise the access to open data portals and
systems based on different and heterogeneous technologies.

One of the most relevant problems related to adoption and usage of open
data is related to technology and standard fragmentation: every entity that
wants to provide open data (e.g. Public Administration) uses different
platforms and formats for their publication.
This issue represents a barrier for the user that wants to search for open
data, and for third-party applications that are not able to simply access
and reuse it.
Idra is an open source platform that provides a unique access point to open
datasets coming from heterogeneous ODMS (Open Data Management System), such
as portals provided by Municipalities and PAs.

Idra can be seen, from one side, as an implementation of the FIWARE Open
Data GE (a subset of APIs), while on the other side, it also provides
additional features as a new FIWARE GE. We are open to discuss with the TCS
the best positioning of this component inside the FIWARE architecture.

>From technical point of view

   - Idra is platform composed by a back-end module and a web portal that
   allows to search for open data and linked open data, in a federated and
   multilanguage way
   - The datasets remain in the original portals, the platform imports,
   harmonises and manages only the metadata, updating it periodically in order
   to assure that the information provided is up to date. The metadata of the
   federated datasets are compliant with DCAT-AP standard;
   - The platform is able to access to open data portals based on different
   technologies (e.g. CKAN, SOCRATA, DKAN etc) even that they don’t provide
   API (via web scraping technique)

Code and documentation:

   - GitHub repository : https://github.com/OPSILab/Idra
   - API documentation: https://idraopendata.docs.apiary.io/
   - User manual: http://idra.readthedocs.io/
   - Online demo: https://opendatafederation.eng.it/
   - Presentation slides:
   https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aHhNAuO2gjgSYrJZq5kniZMvpuBd_fhr

We are available for any type of clarification and to attend a call to
directly present our platform.

Thank you very much

Martino Maggio
-- 



*Martino Maggio*
Senior Researcher, PMP®

*Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa*
Research & Development Laboratory
Viale Regione Siciliana, 7275 - 90146 Palermo, ITALY

Email: martino.maggio at eng.it
Direct phone +39 091 7511732
Mobile phone +39 347 8756771
Operator      +39 091 7511711
www.eng.it | linkedin <http://it.linkedin.com/in/martinomaggio>
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